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Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
by JoAnn Deak, Teresa Barker
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hyperion (2003-08-20)
ISBN: 0786886579
EAN: 9780786886579
Dewy Decimal #: 649.133
Paperback: 304 pages
Release Date: 2003-08-20
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very tight book. No markings. Softcover in excellent condition. No torn or bent pages.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Now available in paperback is a bold, fresh, and timely work that "offers parents humor, understanding, parenting philosophy, and well-founded pearls of wisdom." --Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., coauthor of Raising Cain Mary Pipher told us about the problems girls face in Reviving Ophelia; now in Girls Will Be Girls, JoAnn Deak gives us the solutions. Deak looks past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls. She draws from the latest brain research on girls to illustrate the exciting new ways in which we can help our daughters learn and thrive. Most telling of all, she gives us the voices of girls themselves as they struggle with body image, self-esteem, intellectual growth, peer pressure, and media messages. The result is a masterly book that addresses the key issues for girls growing up; one that fulfills a desperate need for clear guiding principles to help mothers, fathers, and their daughters navigate this chaotic contemporary culture.
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Customer Reviews
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Nothing new here
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-02-25
34 out of 73 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book does not stray an inch from the usual 'Raising Daughters: For Dumb***es' formula, which consists of the following:
1) Pop-science involving the brain and hormones is used to 'confirm' the most banal stereotypes about females. If you've heard the ones about how they are supposedly all more 'empathetic' and 'relational' than males, you have heard the basic premise of this book. The author even mentions something about how she believes that stereotypes 'usually hold truth'.*
2) The sort of trite parenting advice that was once called 'common sense' but is now called 'marketable'. Plenty of tiresome and unenlightening 'real-world examples' are used as padding to make up for the book's lack of anything that can be called substance.
* Indeed -- but only if one doesn't bother to look any further.
In short: don't be a sucker. Hopefully this review will be of help.
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a must read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-05-01
7 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
A must read for anyone raising or working with young girls. And if you think this book is phenominal, don't pass up an opportunity to hear her speak. She'll knock your socks off!!!
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Exploring Feminine Mysteries
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-09-03
14 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
We're privileged to have Dr. Deak's experience in the
crucible of girlhood, an educator/psychologist in the public
school system, to inform us of the facts and superstitions of
young 'femaleness'.We're presented with current neurological theories of the
chemical differences between boys and girls and given
numerous ways of accomodating these differences.
Examples are varied and there's a clear delineation of the
needs and cultural conditions that today's young woman is
presented with. This is an important work for all parents, including the parents
of boys. I feel that we're aided in a more conscious form of
child-raising through the ideas laid out here and may find
that a more positive impact is made on this future generation
as a result of our implementing them.
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You Go Girl!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-08-06
18 out of 22 customers found this reveiw helpful
I truly enjoyed this practical, funny, touching and true guide to parenting girls from a real expert. She really knows how to keep your attention with real stories and get her point across with humor and detail. We can all learn how to help our girls grow up to be the women we all wanted to be.
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Finally--Sensible Advice in Readable Form!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-08-05
20 out of 22 customers found this reveiw helpful
Those of us who are parents/relatives, educators, or mentors of girls have become increasingly aware of the difficulties that young women face as they mature from the stage of irrepressible confidence to the insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood. And while girls do walk a constant balance beam, tilting back and forth between doing and being too much or too little, the adults in their lives are right there behind them--wondering whether they should under-react or over-react. But one thing is certain--they are reacting, often out of panic or the need to control the uncontrollable!JoAnn Deak is there on the balance beam with us all. Thanks to her experience in schools and expertise as a counselor, she presents comprehensible insights regarding physical and psychological issues, along with memorable anecdotes and solid advice to help us approach the complexities rationally. When we have finished reading, we know more about the girls and how best to support them. And we also understand more about ourselves. I've been waiting for such a book for a long time!
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