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8 reviews for:
Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
JoAnn Deak, Teresa Barker
3.57 AVERAGE
8 reviews for:
Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
JoAnn Deak, Teresa Barker
3.57 AVERAGE
I just couldn't make it through this one. I haven't had much time to read lately, and I've been renewing this from the library over and over. I gave up. It didn't interest me as much as I thougth it would, and the author's language got on my nerves. Maybe I'll return to it someday, since I hate leaving a book unfinished once I've read part of it. I just finished chapter 2 (I made it really far, didn't I?), so I'll pick up there someday . . . maybe.
An engaging look at the physiological and psychological inner workings of a girl. Very insightful chapters on layering life experiences, mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, society's expectations including girls being "pleasers" and the danger of that, and the magic of doing. Especially loved the Pearls of Wisdom summary boxes at the end of each chapter. Took to heart the advice that 2nd grade girls try out friends like flavors of the day (21-flavors Baskin Robbins), and why that is good. Highly recommend for any parent with an elementary-aged girl!
While it was a good reminder of how to be a good parent, I thought it applied to both girls and boys. I really didn't feel like I learned anything new, but I did like the reminder. One thing I didn't like was her writing style. She says "I'll address this later in the book a lot" and therefore the book felt very fragmented and didn't flow very well.
To be honest, I never had the chance to finish reading this book. I got about halfway through before I needed to give it back to the woman who'd loaned it to me, and I haven't had the chance to revisit it.
I read through the author's analysis of pre-teens - tweens, she called them - and the information I read up to that point was interesting and enlightening. I was a young girl once, I was there, I lived through it. But my experience was and will be very different from my daughter's. I lived in a different time than she does; what I was exposed to was dramatically different from what she'll see and encounter in life.
The part that struck me the most from what I read was the fact that with tweens and teens, the seemingly inability to get through to them isn't because they're choosing not to listen, but rather because their brains aren't capable of processing what adults are preaching. The adolescent brain isn't fully-formed, no matter how adult a girl may think she is. A parent can talk until she's blue in the face, but if that child isn't capable of understanding what's being said, it literally goes in one ear and out the other.
There was a lot of important information that [a:JoAnn Deak|226860|JoAnn Deak|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] presented in this book. This is one that I will probably buy a copy of and re-read as my daughter reaches these new stages in life. Any tool that will help Tony and I guide her through to adulthood is to be considered. Now I just need to find an equally informative book about how to raise boys!
I read through the author's analysis of pre-teens - tweens, she called them - and the information I read up to that point was interesting and enlightening. I was a young girl once, I was there, I lived through it. But my experience was and will be very different from my daughter's. I lived in a different time than she does; what I was exposed to was dramatically different from what she'll see and encounter in life.
The part that struck me the most from what I read was the fact that with tweens and teens, the seemingly inability to get through to them isn't because they're choosing not to listen, but rather because their brains aren't capable of processing what adults are preaching. The adolescent brain isn't fully-formed, no matter how adult a girl may think she is. A parent can talk until she's blue in the face, but if that child isn't capable of understanding what's being said, it literally goes in one ear and out the other.
There was a lot of important information that [a:JoAnn Deak|226860|JoAnn Deak|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] presented in this book. This is one that I will probably buy a copy of and re-read as my daughter reaches these new stages in life. Any tool that will help Tony and I guide her through to adulthood is to be considered. Now I just need to find an equally informative book about how to raise boys!
Great advice for raising daughters. Hopefully I can remember this as my girls grow up.
This book had a lot of good information - some of it new and some of it a good articulation of what I remember from my own childhood and adolescence. Her penchant for naming stages/issues/situations and labeling endlessly gets a little tiresome and her lack of supporting documentation/evidence is a concerning, but on the whole it's a good book to get any parent of daughters in a good mind frame to tackle the task. I like her pragmatic approach and validation of the different social/emotional stages. It makes me realize that every phase has it's reasons and benefits.
Great advice for raising daughters. Hopefully I can remember this as my girls grow up.