Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong

Steve Biddulph

Mar 2014 · Sold by Ten Speed Press

About this ebook

A practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller Raising Boys.

In today's world, it's especially critical for girls to grow up strong and capable. In this impassioned follow-up to his bestselling Raising Boys, author Steve Biddulph brings together the best thinking from around the world on how to raise daughters of sound character who know that they are loved, and can stand up for themselves and others. Biddulph teaches parents how to build their daughters' self-assuredness, encourage friendships, and equip them to learn and believe in themselves. This detailed guidebook teaches parents, grandparents, and caretakers exactly what matters for and to girls at which age, and how to build confidence and connectedness from infancy to young womanhood.

Ratings and reviews

So informative and thorough. Strongly recommended for any parent

About the author

STEVE BIDDULPH is one of the world's best-known parenting authors, with books--including Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Raising Babies, and The Secret of Happy Children--in four million homes and thirty-one languages. He has been a family psychologist in Australia for more than thirty years, and is Adjunct Professor in the school of psychology and counselling at The Cairnmillar Institute in Melbourne.