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Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids' Best Selves--Confident Parenting in a World of Change
Ron Taffel Ph.D.

Free Press, 2009

Dr. Ron Taffel, one of the country's most sought-after child-rearing experts, draws on decades of counseling experience and extensive conversations with parents nationwide to offer an original and inspiring analysis of the distinctive challenges parents face in raising children today. He also introduces a breakthrough approach for guiding kids -- from children to teens -- in ways that bring out the best in both kids and parents in these ...

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

319 reviews
Mary Bray Pipher

Tandem Library, 1994

A must-read for all women and parents
I just finished reading Reviving Ophelia (Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls) by Dr Mary Pipher. Pipher is a therapist specializing in family and adolescence. Before writing this book, she wrote a book about eating disorders and while working on that, she noticed a phenomenon among her patients as well as her own teen girls. She says that when you speak to a 9 yr old girl, she is full of ...

Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Mary Pipher

Ballantine Books, 1995

Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids' Best Selves - Confident Parenting in a World of Change

Simon & Schuster, 2009

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

16 reviews
Mary Phd Pipher, Mary Pipher

Ballantine Books, 2002

Of a rare quality
I used this book, taken from a list provided, as the subject of a term paper for a college psychology class. This was about 3 years ago, and it still takes my mind to a place of deep thought and reveals new insights. This book was interesting to read, and the author discloses information (that is difficult to know of) in an objective manner which is not devoid of kindness and respect for all ...

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Mary Pipher

Riverhead Trade, 2005

The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller. More than 1.5 million copies sold. Now available from Riverhead. This is the groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: Why are American adolescent girls falling prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and dangerously low self-esteem? Dr. Pipher posits that it's America's sexist, look-obsessed "girl-poisoning" culture-one in which girls ...