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	• Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of ... Rosalind Wiseman Three Rivers Press, 2002 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 94 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's troubling to me that 11 year old girls are already playing the popularity game. Our society isn't allowing little girls to remain little girls. They have all these images thrust upon them...teen queens Brittney and Christina tell them how they should look. Nickelodeon tells them what to buy. They listen to popular music and watch the news and are forced to grow up too soon. They are too young to make judgements and they begin to act in ways mentioned in the book. They feel they must act out and be seen.

I don't remember school being such a competitive place. I'm saddened by what our society has become. I hope I can study this book and help my daughter to become a self-confident young woman.

I'm thankful Ms. Wiseman wrote this book.

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Mostly Practical

While it is virtually impossible to pigeonhole most girls into one role or another, and their roles are constantly changing, the first half of this resource proves very helpful for those of us wanting insight into "Girl World."
As a woman who fits the description of "adult ally" rather than parent, I found many tidbits I could apply to my mentoring relationships with middle- and high-school girls, and an equal number of clues to the behaviors of my associates (and myself) when I was growing up.
However, this book slips into tolerance overdrive, especially in the interest of gay tendencies. ("Tolerance" is our culture's excuse to overlook our lazy inability to separate attitudes about persons from approval of their behavior. It is precisely because of this kind of tolerance that slaveholders were enabled for so long in this country.)
I wish the author had kept her perspective more objective. Her treatment of heterosexuality and homosexuality as equally moral and valid may make some readers doubt her common sense in other sections of the book as well.
Read the first half attentively; the second with a huge grain of salt.

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Here's to Preventative Maintenance

This reads like a chess manual for social interactions (or more accurately dysfunctional interactions) of teenage females with their peers. The goal of this book is to give parents insight into why certain situations occur and how to help their daughters address them. Politics are part of any social interaction but the compilation of scenarios in this book are complex and vicious. While informative, the book takes a reactive stance. Just how do girls get entangled in these webs in the first place? How do parents raise a girl to have enough sense of self worth to let ugliness roll off or stand up for whatever is right? This book is truly a huge inspiration to read books about child development, self esteem and socialization. These books in turn teach skills to help a child take control in a positive manner as opposed to being a pawn who takes the role of aggressor, accomplice or attacked.

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