Bringing up Girls
Bringing up girls from a child to adulthood can be an amazing and sometimes challenging time so we have put together some helpful videos, documents and reading list for you as parents to look through.
Reading List
L Platers: How to support your teen daughter on the road to adulthood, Madonna King
“In this insightful and practical exploration of female young adulthood, Madonna offers a remarkable way of understanding and sharing the realities of growing up for so many of our daughters.” – Dr Justin Coulson
It has been described as amust-read guide for parents of teenage girls that explores what our girls need us to know in order to support them through the unprecedented pressures of growing up in today’s world.
Talk with Her: A Dad’s Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters, Kimberly Wolf
A comprehensive guide to help dads support their daughters through the preteen and teen years up to adulthood.
“Kimberly Wolf provides a vital map for fathers in navigating the most important–and often the most challenging and turbulent–aspects of father-daughter relationships. This is an engaging, insightful, thoughtful, and wonderfully useful book.”
–Dr. Richard Weissbourd, senior lecturer and faculty director of Making Caring Common, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Girls Without Limits: Helping Girls Achieve Healthy Relationships, Academic Success, and Interpersonal Strength – Second Edition, Lisa M. Hinkelman
Understand the unique challenges girls face when dealing with social pressure, body image, academics, and career choices. Help girls develop skills and competencies to deal with these challenges. Combining relevant research with revealing real-life stories and action strategies, Girls Without Limits will help you become a positive force in girls′ lives in any capacity.
What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women, Marisa Porges
The author, now Principle has a BA from Harvard in Geophysics, flown jets for the US Navy and been a counter-terrorism expert in Afghanistan and the White House – this is an essential hand-book for all parents of girls – and anyone who cares about girls and what happens to them. It will empower you to help her close the confidence gap with boys, find her voice, nurture her competitive spirit, turn her audacity into persuasion, learn the art and skill of networking, and find role models – all the things that will help her succeed as an adult woman – whatever field they enter, whatever challenge they face.
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls, Lisa Damour
Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent research studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of the century. So how can we help these girls?
In the same engaging, anecdotal style and reassuring tone that won over thousands of readers of her first book, Untangled, clinical psychologist Lisa Damour starts by examining the science of stress and anxiety, then turns to the many facets of girls’ lives where stress hits them hard. Exploring the multiple layers of girls’ lives, Damour shows us the critical steps we can take to shield them from the toxic stress
Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder, Reshma Saujani
Too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, all the time. We lose sleep ruminating about whether we may have offended someone, pass up opportunities that take us out of our comfort zones, and avoid rejection at all costs.
In Brave, Not Perfect, Reshma shares powerful insights and practices to help us override our perfect girl training and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our biggest, boldest, and most joyful life.
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour
In this sane, highly engaging, and informed guide for parents of daughters, Dr. Damour draws on decades of experience and the latest research to reveal the seven distinct–and absolutely normal–developmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups, including Parting with Childhood, Contending with Adult Authority, Entering the Romantic World, and Caring for Herself. Providing realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage daughters in smart, constructive ways,
Perhaps most important, Untangled helps mothers and fathers understand, connect, and grow with their daughters. When parents know what makes their daughter tick, they can embrace and enjoy the challenge of raising a healthy, happy young woman.
UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World, Michele Borba
Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood–and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which children will thrive and succeed in the future.
Dr. Borba offers a framework for parenting that yields the results we all want: successful, happy children who also are kind, moral, courageous, and resilient. UnSelfie is a blueprint for parents and educators who want to children to shift their focus from I, me, and mine…to we, us, and ours.
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Julie Lythcott-Haims
In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large.
While empathising with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success.
