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Unloved Daughters and the Elusive Nature of Friendship

By Peg Streep — 2020

Looking at the collateral damage we rarely talk about.

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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (25th Anniversary Edition)

In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called “a girl-poisoning culture” surrounding adolescents.

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Mary Pipher, Sara Pipher Gilliam
2019
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Be Who You Want to Be: Dealing with Life’s Ups and Downs

For a vast majority of girls in this country, there comes an age at which self-esteem, self-assurance, equilibrium, and confidence fly out the window. Maybe it’s hormones, maybe it’s culture, or maybe it’s just called growing up. Whatever the cause, it’s real.

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Karen Casey
2025
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Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

Looking past the “scare” stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls, JoAnn Deak draws from the latest brain research on girls to illustrate the exciting new ways in which we can help our daughters learn and thrive.

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JoAnn Deak, Teresa Barker
2003
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The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy

Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

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Edward M. Hallowell
2003
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Enough as She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

From the New York Times bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, a deeply urgent book that gives adults the tools to help girls in high school and college reject “supergirl” pressure, overcome a toxic stress culture, and become resilient adults with healthy, happy, and fulfilling lives.

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Rachel Simmons
2019
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What Do You Really Want for Your Children?

Wayne Dyer’s offers seven simple secrets for building your child's self-esteem every day; how to give very young children all the love they need without spoiling them; how to encourage risk-taking without fear of failure; action strategies for dealing with both your own anger and your child's;...

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Wayne W. Dyer
2001
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