Raising Girls in the 21st Century: Helping Our Girls to Grow Up Wise, Strong and Free

I found this book to be most insightful and it gives a really good overall idea into the world of girls. I found it quite interesting to read alongside James Dobson's book 'Bringing up Girls'. Reading both together gave me a very comprehensive oversight for my particular needs.

I throughly enjoyed the book. I would highly recommend the book to anyone who has a daughter. Will still use the book for future reference.

I enjoyed the easy way in which he writes. Very user friendly and you can apply it to any stage.

Great book full of great info for any parent, interesting read, would definitely recommend

I am reading it ..I will write a review after finishing.Till now got some great advices for parents

Like any book of this nature, exactly what you get out of it will depend on what you already know and what your views are. My husband and I both read it and feel that the picture painted is unnecessarily gloomy and that most of the issues highlighted can be avoided by having a deep and honest relationship with your children.It does give a good summary of several important topics, and the advice tends to be practical, mostly.

The author has amassed quite a collection of books he (co-)wrote on various relationship related topics, be it parenthood (whether gender related or not) or general partnership topics. What certainly attracts a wide readership is the combination of advice from the author's own therapy related experience, together with a relatively well explained scientific back-up, with some common sense thrown in, in a sense not dissimilar to the cocktail served up by Jesper Juul.Given that there have been some pretty dramatic changes to the way families operate over the last 50 years or so, with related effects on general child rearing, his books on raising boys - and in this case girls - are quite timely. He introduces the reader to the different stages in the girls' growing up process and which facets need to be taken care of especially in each one of them. This is complemented by dangers one needs to be aware of and occasional guest chapters by specialists from specific sub-fields the author introduces.I can imagine that most things confirm the common sense many parents have, and nothing came across as implausible or in some way ideology driven. Still, the book summarizes the points well enough and warns of the myriad of dangers today's girls face when growing up. The advice is certainly not of the 'line of least resistance' kind and the parent willing to follow it will need to invest both time and effort (and make the odd sacrifice) in order to do it right.In any case, I can only recommend it to both current parents, as well as others, who need to play an important role in children's lives (from other relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles, to family friends who are great sources of alternative perspectives to children and adolescents). Even if you may find yourself thinking you knew much of the advice given, I believe that small improvements possible to the parenting skills of almost everyone after reading this book more than compensate for the price asked.

A must read for all parents. Will definitely refer back to this book as my daughter grows up. Thank you.

I think this book is excellent, the advice is clear and concise it doesn't appear patronising and has some very helpful tips. The advice would quite often be common sense but it is really good to be reminded of what as parents we can do more effectively for example it is understandably not sensible to discuss parents dieting as this of course will influence our daughters perceptions of food and diet. I will really try and implement the suggestions discussed and remember how influential I am in my daughter's life. Sometimes as parents we can feel that things are beyond our influence when in fact they are not we just have to keep going.