Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

Author(s): Joann Deak
Published: 2003
Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

Author JoAnn Deak draws from the latest brain research to illustrate the exciting new ways we can help our daughters learn and thrive. She celebrates girls with a keen understanding of their intellectual, physical and emotional lives. Cultivating competence, confidence and connections is the bottom line of this important work.

Mary Pipher told us about the problems girls face in Reviving Ophelia; now in Girls Will Be Girls, JoAnn Deak gives us the solutions. Deak looks past the “scare” stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls. She draws from the latest brain research on girls to illustrate the exciting new ways in which we can help our daughters learn and thrive. Most telling of all, she gives us the voices of girls themselves as they struggle with body image, self-esteem, intellectual growth, peer pressure, and media messages. The result is a masterly book that addresses the key issues for girls growing up; one that fulfills a desperate need for clear guiding principles to help mothers, fathers, and their daughters navigate this chaotic contemporary culture.

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