10 Things Girls Need Most: To grow up strong and free

10 Things Girls Need Most: To grow up strong and free
Steve Biddulph

This epub is currently best viewed on a tablet or a colour e-reader.In answer to the crisis in girls’ mental health, the UK’s bestselling parenting author Steve Biddulph brings an interactive learning guide rich in content and interactive elements to help parents be prepared and self-aware in providing for their daughters.In his ground-breaking new book, Steve Biddulph, million copy bestselling author of Raising Girls, psychologist and parent educator, offers an interactive experience for parents to explore the relationship with their girls from the cradle to the teenager. It is a guided journey of exercises, conversations, reflections and self-rating questionnaires that builds the inner capacities in a parent, targeted at each stage of their daughters growing up.Every aspect – love and security in babyhood, mindfulness, setting boundaries, emotional well-being and emotional literacy, education and learning in primary and secondary school, friendship, puberty and adolescence, sexuality and sexualization, choosing partners and negotiating equality and respect; in fact everything a father or mother needs to think about to be prepared and self-aware in providing for their growing girl.Complemented by real-life case studies and full-colour photographs throughout.

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Contents

Cover (#u5b8e04e3-59c6-55c8-9abb-ed8aa3c6b2ce)

Title Page (#u0c69593e-ea38-5bc7-ab39-465a45dd64ca)

Copyright (#ulink_8c380532-08ca-5549-9b40-55ae168535d8)

A Letter from Steve (#ulink_82db04e9-a240-52d3-94d3-14aff8c9dff4)

Foreword (#ulink_cea2a8c9-9f9c-5d93-a0bb-0f590081f993)

Your Daughter’s Journey (#ulink_fea26dbb-fda9-5418-8b3e-ac815211f617)

10 THINGS GIRLS NEED MOST (#ulink_c95ee2b7-b55d-54e3-9d62-06d95b527ede)

1. A Secure and Loving Start (#litres_trial_promo)

2. The Chance to be Wild and Time to be a Child (#litres_trial_promo)

3. Friendship Skills (#litres_trial_promo)

4. The Love and Respect of a Dad (#litres_trial_promo)

5. Spark (#litres_trial_promo)

6. Aunties (#litres_trial_promo)

7. A Happy Sexuality (#litres_trial_promo)

8. Backbone (#litres_trial_promo)

9. Feminism (#litres_trial_promo)

10. Spirit (#litres_trial_promo)

Endnotes (#litres_trial_promo)

Further Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Picture Credits (#litres_trial_promo)

List of Searchable Terms (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Other Books by Steve Biddulph (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

A letter from Steve (#ulink_988a2b99-0407-5d20-9b0e-d186cd420717)

For forty years I’ve worked with parents in talks and workshops, and it is so satisfying, and so much fun, that I wished I could share it with every parent in the world. So I set about thinking how to do so in a book.

What you hold in your hands is the result. You can read it straight through, like any other book, but – if you wish to go further – on every few pages there are opportunities to respond. These are very simple – a self-evaluation quiz, or an idea to give a quick rating to. These instant-response items take you deeper into awareness of how to better help your girl.