Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween

By Melissa Wardy

Containing practical, specific parenting advice; strategies for effecting change with educators, store managers, corporations, and more; and tips for challenging and changing the media, this essential guide gives parents the tools they need to fight back against the modern stereotyping and sexualization of young girls.

Activist Melissa Wardy shares tangible advice for getting young girls to start thinking critically about sexed-up toys and clothes while also talking to girls about body image issues. She provides tips for creating a home full of diverse, inspiring toys and media free of gender stereotypes, using consumer power to fight companies that make such major missteps, and taking the reins to limit, challenge, and change the harmful media and products bombarding girls.  

Redefining Girly provides specific parenting strategies, templates, and sample conversations and includes letters from some of the leading experts in education, psychology, child development, and girls’ advocacy.

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Sue Scheff: Too Close for Comfort? Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship

By Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer

Dr. Michele Borba wrote a fantastic review on this newly released book about today's mother-daughter relationships.

No relationship is more complicated than the one between mothers and daughters- especially today, when a cultural shift can cause a longer period of time of overlapping interests before the traditional adult markers of marriage and family.

As a result, these young women are developing deeper bonds with their own mothers, a relationship that sometimes mimics friendship. But are these close bonds healthy? Is it time to cut the umbilical cord?

In this eye-opening book, Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer explore the modern mother-daughter relationship in all its glorious complexity. Combining a brilliant sociological analysis with fascinating stories of real- life women, Too Close for Comfort? provides a rich, provocative look at the ways mothers and daughters get it right, how they get it wrong-and how they can happily maintain being friends as well as mothers and daughters.

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Sue Scheff: A Way Through - The Female Friendship Experts

Do you have a daughter that may need some extra help? A Way Through is a wonderful wealth of inspirational and educational information for you.

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We’ll Personally Guide You and Your Kindergarten – Grade 8 Daughter Through the Maze of Painful Friendships… Put Your Daughter in Control of Her Own Experiences. She’ll Learn to Successfully Build Thriving Friendships and You’ll Learn to Coach Her Behind the Scenes
From: Jane Balvanz and Blair Wagner, the Female Friendship Experts

Dear Parents of Girls Hurting from Painful Friendships:

Do you need some help in guiding your daughter through hurtful friendships?

It’s Tough to Know What to Do When Your Daughter Is Being Hurt by Other Girls

As a parent, do you feel:

Angry when your daughter is being excluded, gossiped about, or given the silent treatment?
Sad seeing your daughter being hurt by her “friends”?

Frustrated due to your daughter’s on-again / off-again friendships?

Unable to help your daughter when school, sports, or social activities seem like a girl war zone?
Devastated when your daughter is too scared to go to school?

Whether You Are Feeling Angry, Hurt or Helpless at What Is Happening to Your Daughter, We Want You to Know That There Is a Way Through This Form of Bullying

Many parents have found hope through learning more about the dynamics of Relational Aggression (RA). In turn they have equipped their daughters with skills with which to assert themselves in RA situations. Their daughters have experienced relief and used their personal power to create friendships which serve them.

Visit http://www.awaythrough.com/parents.htm for much more!!!

Follow Jane Balvanz on Twitter @JaneBalvanz