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10 Things Girls Need Most

To Grow Up Strong and Free

Steve Biddulph author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:20th Apr '17

Should be back in stock very soon

10 Things Girls Need Most cover

In answer to the crisis in girls’ mental health, the UK’s best selling parenting author, Steve Biddulph brings an interactive learning guide rich in content and interactive elements to help parents be prepared and self-aware in providing for their daughters.

In his ground-breaking new book, Steve Biddulph, million copy
best-selling author of Raising Girls, psychologist and parent educator offers an interactive experience for parents to explore
the relationship with their girls from the cradle to the teenager. It is a guided journey of exercises, conversations, reflections and self-rating questionnaires that builds the inner capacities in a parent, targeted at each stage of their daughters growing up.
Every aspect – love and security in babyhood, mindfulness, setting boundaries, emotional well-being and emotional literacy, education and learning in primary and secondary school, friendship, puberty and adolescence, sexuality and sexualization, choosing partners and negotiating equality and respect.; in fact everything a father or mother needs to think about to be prepared and self-aware in providing for their growing girl.
Complemented by real -life case studies and full colour photographs throughout.

If you have girls you must read this book, it will help you choose the best parenting path for you and your child, The risks to our daughters’ mental health are great and we must make changes. The battle for girlhood is one we should all be fighting.’ Lorraine Candy, The Sunday Times April 2017

‘Biddulph is electrifying.’ – The Telegraph

‘For me, Steve Biddulph is the man.’ – Libby Purves

‘The World is so different to when today's parents were young that it's almost impossible to know how to raise children safely and well in the modern world. This book could make a real difference.’ – Katie Fforde

ISBN: 9780008146795

Dimensions: 246mm x 189mm x 15mm

Weight: 620g

208 pages