Raising Our Daughters: The Ultimate Parenting Guide for Healthy Girls and Thriving Families

Raising Our Daughters a companion book to Raising Our Sons is a compilation of over 200 of the best parenting resources by more than 120 authors organized into 10 easy-to-understand chapters. ROD is organized as a parenting guide for individual learning and/or group discussion with other parents. It is also Search Institute approved and designed to help families and communities enhance the 40 Developmental Assets for their children. Each chapter contains a list of action steps you can take to put your new knowledge into practice as well as a list of resources to explore the chapters theme more deeply. CHAPTER TITLES: 1) Whats Happening to My Daughter? 2) What Influences Her? 3) Raising Her 4) Celebrating Womanhood 5) Empowering Her 6) Teaching Her 7) Making Time for Her 8) Keeping Her Safe 9) Supporting Her 10) Creating Community TESTIMONIALS These magnificent guides will deepen and strengthen every family that uses them. They will build community and allow us to develop emotionally sturdy well-behaved and civic-minded children. -- Mary Pipher PhD (Lincoln Nebraska) Author of Reviving Ophelia Shelter of Each Other The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture and many other books about how American culture influences the mental health of its people As a Head of School it is very important for me to offer and have on hand appropriate and engaging resources. Dr. Masaries Raising Our Daughters is not only engaging and appropriate but it is perfect and offers a fantastic forum for supporting parents as they raise their daughters. I am also the mother of two girls and I must say that reading this book AND creating a group is what makes it really work. I love this book and would love to see that it was required reading for all parents! - Cathy Newman Head of Sunstone School (Portland Oregon) Dr. Kathy Masarie and her approach to raising emotionally healthy children has been a constant source of inspiration for me. I have put into action many of the ideas provided in the discussion groups helping me to instill self-confidence and nurture a close open and mutually rewarding relationship with both my daughter and my son. -- Katherine Melchior Ray International Marketing Expert (Tokyo Japan)