Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4433 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Synopsis
With contributions and foreword by Steve Biddulph, author of the groundbreaking Raising Boys, the book explores girls' emotional and physical development from ages 1 to 16 years old. A warm and inspiring read for parents. Every parent of girls aged between 1 and 16 will enjoy reading this informative and practical book. Steve Biddulph, author of the renowned bestseller Raising Boys, has contributed to the book and called it 'The best book on parenting girls I've ever seen.' It focuses on girls' emotional and physical development, their education, social conditioning and their relationship with parents and siblings. Psychologist and parenting author Gisela Preuschoff covers everything you need to know about girls from birth to teenage years, in this easy to follow guide which includes examples from real families.

The book includes: - how girls and boys differ in behaviour and emotions - nurturing a girl's self-esteem and reducing fears - breaking out of the 'helpless girl' syndrome - how society conditions girls - avoiding gender stereotypes in toys etc - girls' experiences at preschool, single sex or co-ed - girls and maths and sciences - and how parents can encourage their daughters - teen issues and puberty - the importance of a father's relationship with his daughter

Customer Reviews

Dissappointed
Basic parenting advice.....but strongly biased against girls.....

"Raising Boys" was such an amazing, groundbreaking book, that I had high expectations for this one....

Don't waste your money -look at
JoAnn Deak and Elizabeth Hartley Brewer..........

Very disappointing
I like Steve Biddulph, and grabbed this book in a hurry (distracted by teething baby girl, tantrumming girl toddler and impatient 5 year old girl) without properly reading the blurb - my own fault but I thought this was the long-awaited mirror to Biddulph's Raising Boys and gratefully bought it.
Big disappointment - of course it is not by Biddulph (and I strongly feel he should not have endorsed it) and I gained very little from the book - most of it is either obvious, opinionated or waffle.
I learnt more about my three girls from Raising Boys!

Disappointed by hypocrisy
After the birth of my son, I read ¨Raising Boys¨ by Steven Biddulph and found it extremely useful. After the birth of my daughter, I was looking for a similar book focusing on girls issues and came across this book. It started out well but totally lost me after Ms Preuschoff suggested that fairytales were great for girls but Barbie was bad. Apparently, girls can learn life lessons from fairytales whereas Barbie is just harmful. At no point in the book, does the author justify her view. In my opinion, if Barbie is bad for a girl then the fairytale ¨princess¨ stories filling little girls heads with beauty and romance are not good either, especially in the commercial Disney age in which we live. Basically, I feel that I learnt nothing from this book, and only came away disappointed by the author's hypocrisy.