City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Raising girls, how to help your daughter grow up happy, healthy, and strong, Steve Biddulph

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Raising girls

bibliography

Steve Biddulph

how to help your daughter grow up happy, healthy, and strong

Instructs parents on how to raise daughters of sound character who know that they are loved and can stand up for themselves and others

A letter from steve -- Meet kaycee and genevieve -- The five stages of girlhood -- Creating a total girl -- Right from the start (birth to two years) -- Learning to explore (two to five years) -- Getting along with others (five to ten years) -- Finding her soul (ten to fourteen years) -- Preparing for adulthood (fourteen to eighteen years) -- Hazards and helps : the five big risk areas and how to navigate them -- Too sexy too soon -- Mean girls -- Bodies, weight, and food -- Alcohol and other drugs -- Girls and the online world -- Girls and their parents -- Girls and their moms -- Girls and their dads -- What happened to kaycee? -- Postscript -- Author's notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index