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This book has practical examples and case studies to help all fathers raising girls, with particular comfort for single fathers worried about the lack of women in their daughters’ lives. Whether you are a dad, a harassed grandparent, or a guardian raising girls who may not be your daughters but are your girls all the same, this book is for you, and Mums will find it handy as well. If you want a book with effective strategies instead of platitudes, and real solutions instead of catch-phrases, and chapters that deal with the real world of raising girls, then this book is the one!Contents
Contents : preface - sugar and spice ... and a little napalm; zombies and high heels; what dads want; on girls, parenting books, ‘parenting experts’ and ‘parenting experts’ who write about girls in parenting books; basic girl-ology - the two stages of daughters; girl-talk : communicating with the other side; the girls crisis - sadly you missed it, you were too late; Mars, Venus, and sexual pseudoscience; Bears, dirty Scandinavian shrinks, and a revealing hypothesis; personality development, gender differences, and why elephants are the great levellers; girls are more school-friendly; ‘Mean girls’ - the new cult of bitchiness; pop culture bullshit; the e-girl : raising daughters in the hyper-connected information age; Puberty - it’s not as scary as it seems; Adolescence - the place where ‘dad jokes’ go to die; how to survive your teenage daughter; managing behaviour : Hell hath no fury like an angry teenage girl; the semi-myth of the gentler sex; body image and eating disorders : the stranger in the mirror; depression, anxiety, and self-harm; every dad’s nightmare : sex, drugs, and parties; bad girls; separation and divorce - when good love goes bad; take one dose of dad twice daily - why you are the best vaccine she has; how to be a cool dad; zombies and high heels (a reprise); end notes;Additional Info
dewey 306.874
