Queen Bees and Wannabes
Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World
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âThereâs a clique in my daughterâs grade thatâs making her life miserable. She doesnât want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and sheâs too afraid to do anything. What can I do?â
Welcome to the wonderful world of your daughterâs adolescence. A world in which she comes to school one day to find that her friends have suddenly decided that she no longer belongs. Or sheâs teased mercilessly for wearing the wrong outfit or having the wrong friend. Or branded with a reputation she canât shake. Or pressured into conforming so she wonât be kicked out of the group. For better or worse, your daughterâs friendships are the key to enduring adolescenceâas well as the biggest threat to her well-being.
In her groundbreaking book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Empower cofounder Rosalind Wiseman takes you inside the secret world of girlsâ friendships. Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves. In this candid, insightful book, she dissects each role in the clique: Queen Bees, Wannabes, Messengers, Bankers, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and more. She discusses girlsâ power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating arrangements and illicit parties. She takes readers into âGirl Worldâ to analyze teasing, gossip, and reputations; beauty and fashion; alcohol and drugs; boys and sex; and more, and how cliques play a role in every situation.
Each chapter includes âCheck Your Baggageâ sections to help you identify how your own background and biases affect how you see your daughter. âWhat You Can Do to Helpâ sections offer extensive sample scripts, bulleted lists, and other easy-to-use advice to get you inside your daughterâs world and help you
help her.
Itâs not just about helping your daughter make it alive out of junior high. This book will help you understand how your daughterâs relationship with friends and cliques sets the stage for other intimate relationships as she grows and guides her when she has tougher choices to make about intimacy, drinking and drugs, and other hazards. With its revealing look into the secret world of teenage girls and cliques, enlivened with the voices of dozens of girls and a much-needed sense of humor, Queen Bees and Wannabes will equip you with all the tools you need to build the right foundation to help your daughter make smarter choices and empower her during this baffling, tumultuous time of life.
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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415952030
- File size: 340084 KB
- Duration: 11:48:30
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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This guide to raising, supporting, and managing a daughter through the pitfalls of adolescence will help parents better understand and communicate with their teen. Based in part on a curriculum developed by Wiseman, the book explains everything from development and cliques to boyfriends, lying, and the struggle for independence. Lee Adams reads the work with authority and tough-love, encouraging parents to be accountable as both disciplinarians and guides to adulthood. While 12 hours of parenting advice may seem like overkill, Wiseman delivers useful information, including the girl's perspective on parental responses. Adams presents these in the easily recognizable tone of the frustrated teen, even nailing the teenage mantra of "What-ever--" Adams makes this a highly educational and entertaining package. H.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
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