Raising Girls: Understanding How Girls Are Different - And What They Need To Grow Up Happy And Strong

In this straight-forward and thought-provoking book, psychologist and parenting author Gisela Preuschoff considers the understandings that parents require to raise girls today. The book focuses on girls' emotional and physical development, their education, social conditioning and their relationships with parents and siblings.

'Raising Girls' also discusses the emotional and behavioral differences between girls and boys, and helps parents to gain practical understanding of their daughter from birth through to the teenage years. 'Raising Girls' includes a foreward by Steve Biddulph, who rates this the best book on parenting girls he has seen.

Using a warm and conversational approach, similar to Steve Biddulph's 'Raising Boys', Gisela Preuschoff communicates in an accessible way to parents, injecting her own experiences as a mother. The book also includes stories from the experiences of Australian families. Her advice ranges from birth to late adolescence - and across issues to do with physical and sexual development, girls and learning, parent-child relationships and the daughter's emotional life.