Girls Will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters ~ Paperback ~ JoAnn Deak

Girls Will Be Girls offers solutions to the problems girls face famously, identified in the best-seller Reviving Ophelia. Deak looks past 'scare' stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls. Drawing from the latest brain research on girls, she illustrates the exciting new ways in which we can help our daughters learn and thrive. Presented with the voices of girls themselves as they struggle with body image, self-esteem, intellectual growth, peer pressure, and media messages, many parents will find this a practical and masterful guide.Author BiographyJoAnn Deak, Ph.D., is an international speaker, educator, and school psychologist. She lectures frequently, often in tandem with Raising Cain coauthor Michael Thompson. She is a consultant to schools worldwide on issues of brain development, gender equity, and optimal learning environments for boys and girls. Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and coauthor of numerous books, including Raising Cain, Speaking of Boys, and The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Barker and her family, including two daughters, live in Wilmette, Illinois.