{"product_id":"raising-girls-isbn-9781607745754","title":"Raising Girls","description":"\u003cb\u003eA practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eRaising Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted daughter from babyhood to womanhood can be a challenge. Girls need to be strong, and in this warm-hearted book, best-selling parenting author Steve Biddulph brings together the finest thinking from around the world on how to raise daughters who are self-assured, know they are loved, and can stand up for themselves and others. With gentle humor and proven wisdom backed by decades of experience as a family psychologist and father, Biddulph shows parents of girls how to navigate the obstacles of growing up in a world that seems bent on poisoning their confidence. Biddulph also discusses:\u003cbr\u003e• The five stages of girlhood, and how to help them go smoothly.\u003cbr\u003e • How to deal with bullying, mean girls, and social media.\u003cbr\u003e • Ways to ease the transition into the teen years.\u003cbr\u003e • What you need to know about healthy body image, food, and eating disorders.\u003cbr\u003e • The importance of girl’s friendships and how to support them.\u003cbr\u003e • How to help girls happily and confidently relate to boys.\u003cbr\u003e With unforgettable success stories of girls growing up wise and warm, \u003ci\u003eRaising Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is fierce and tender; loving and concerned. It is both a detailed guidebook and a passionate call-to-arms to defend and empower girls everywhere.A Letter from Steve\u003cbr\u003e Meet Kaycee and Genevieve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One\u003c\/b\u003e The Five Stages of Girlhood\u003cbr\u003eChapter one: Creating a Total Girl \u003cbr\u003e Chapter two: Right from the Start (Birth to Two Years) \u003cbr\u003e Chapter three: Learning to Explore (Two to Five Years) \u003cbr\u003e Chapter four: Getting Along with Others (Five to Ten Years) \u003cbr\u003e Chapter five: Finding Her Soul (Ten to Fourteen Years) \u003cbr\u003e Chapter six: Preparing for Adulthood (Fourteen to Eighteen Years)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two\u003c\/b\u003e Hazards and Helps: The Five Big Risk Areas and How to Navigate Them \u003cbr\u003e Chapter seven: Too Sexy Too Soon \u003cbr\u003e Chapter eight: Mean Girls \u003cbr\u003e Chapter nine: Bodies, Weight, and Food \u003cbr\u003e Chapter ten: Alcohol and Other Drugs \u003cbr\u003e Chapter eleven: Girls and the Online World \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three\u003c\/b\u003e Girls and Their Parents \u003cbr\u003e Chapter twelve: Girls and Their Moms \u003cbr\u003e Chapter thirteen: Girls and Their Dads \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What Happened to Kaycee? \u003cbr\u003ePostscript \u003cbr\u003e Author’s Notes \u003cbr\u003e Contributors and Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cp\u003eSTEVE BIDDULPH is one of the world’s best-known parenting authors, with books in four million homes and thirty-one languages. He was a family psychologist for more than thirty years, and teaches at The Cairnmillar Institute in Melbourne. He lives in Tasmania, Australia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Letter from Steve\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dear Reader,\u003cbr\u003e It’s amazing what you learn about yourself. Twenty years ago, when we were expecting our second child, friends naturally asked what we were hoping for, a boy or a girl? I always said I didn’t mind, and I really believed that was true. We already had a boy of seven, and we were very eager simply to have another child.\u003cbr\u003e     We had planned on having a homebirth, but it ended as an emergency caesarian—that’s what we do every time in our family! So I found myself standing in the operating room, trying my best not to faint. Then from Shaaron’s belly the medical team pulled a slippery bundle, and somebody said, “Well done, you’ve got a little girl!” Suddenly I was crying. And laughing. And jumping around. I was, in short, incredibly happy. I hadn’t realized how much I wanted a daughter. I was holding her and looking at her for hours afterward, just amazed. That was all those years ago, and the feeling hasn’t gone away.\u003cbr\u003e     Daughters evoke such strong feelings in us—protectiveness, awe, hope, and fear, but mostly just a fierce love and a wish to give them the best possible life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *               *               *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For more than twenty years, I had a specialty in boys and men. It wasn’t a choice so much as a mission—back then, boys were a disaster zone, and urgently in need of help. I wrote the world’s top-selling book on raising boys, with a simple message that they needed to be strongly loved and firmly taught how to be good men, that they needed positive role models, and that their energy wasn’t a bad thing.\u003cbr\u003e      Back then, girls were doing fine. Then, in the mid-2000s, that started to change. We began to see a sudden and marked plunge in girls’ mental health, first in the United States but quickly spreading across the world. Problems such as eating disorders and self-harm, which had once been extremely rare, were now happening in every school and on almost every street. But more than this, the average girl, everygirl, was stressed and depressed in a way we hadn’t seen before.\u003cbr\u003e      Girls aren’t born hating their own bodies. They aren’t born angry at life. Something was happening in the culture that was poisoning girls’ spirits. It seemed to come on as they entered their teens, but it was creeping up on them younger and younger.\u003cbr\u003e In response, a worldwide movement sprang up—of girl advocates, therapists, and researchers—to try to mobilize parents and the community. Many of these people were my friends, and together we saw the need for a simple parent-friendly book to help get girlhood back on track.\u003cbr\u003e      Raising strong girls starts far, far back, when they are tiny or toddlers, or just in elementary school. We have to love them well, and we have to fight the big world, too, since the predators that want to bring our daughters down are everywhere; they wear suits and make good money and have no conscience at all. The choices we make in the way we raise our daughters can help keep their spirits alive and their self-belief strong, even when the world sends a very different message.\u003cbr\u003e     Girlhood is a quest, a journey of gathering the wisdom needed to be a woman. We are our daughters’ guides on that quest. We need good maps, good stories, and clear eyes.\u003cbr\u003e What could be more awesome than to see your daughter standing tall, wise, and strong at twenty-five or forty, and knowing that you helped to make her so? And what could be more worthwhile than to fight for a world that is open for all young girls, wherever they are born, to be able to realize their dreams?\u003cbr\u003e     I hope this book thrills you and helps you pass on to your daughter all the love you feel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Warmly,\u003cbr\u003e Steve Biddulph","brand":"Ten Speed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301051945189,"sku":"NP9781607745754","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781607745754.jpg?v=1767735370","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/raising-girls-isbn-9781607745754","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}