The Mother-Daughter Project

Few things are more meaningfulor more complicatedthan mother-daughter relationships. This helpful parenting guide helps moms navigate their relationships with their daughters to create strong ties and a close respectful connection that will last a lifetime.SuEllen Hamkins MD and Rene Schultz MA originally created the Mother-Daughter Project with other women in their community in the hopes of strengthening their bonds with their then seven-year-old girls. The group met regularly to speak frankly about such issues as friendships and aggression puberty body image drugs and sexuality. The results were amazing: confident assertive teenage girls with strong self-images and close ties to their moms. Equally important the mothers navigated their own concerns about adolescence with integrity and grace. From their dedication and efforts aroseThe Mother-Daughter Project an incredibly useful parenting handbook that details the success of the Projects groundbreaking model providing mothers with a road map for staying close with their own daughters through adolescence and beyond.