Baby Girls: An Owner's Manual (Perigee Book) [Paperback]

Theresa Foy DiGeronimo (Author)

Book Description

Series: Perigee Book | Publication Date: December 6, 2005

An expert dose of good common sense for parents embarking on the exciting, exhausting, enriching, and endlessly fun experience of raising a baby girl. Complete with practical advice, suggestions, checklists, and more, it covers:

- Selecting a daughter's doctor
- Girls' hygiene and common health questions
- Social, cognitive, and emotional development
- Great toys for girls and other tools for fun and learning
- Shepherding a daughter's developing sense of identity
- And more

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About the Author

Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, M.Ed., is a parenting expert and the author or co-author of 37 nonfiction books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth and Raising a Thinking Child. Her articles about parenting and childcare have appeared in Parents, Child, and Sesame Parents magazines, among others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (December 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399532110
• ISBN-13: 978-0399532115
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,881,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good, entertaining, June 1, 2006

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Maria Beadnell "gotlips" (NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Girls: An Owner's Manual (Perigee Book) (Paperback)

I'd love to raise my daughter free of gender bias, but we live in a world that has it.

This book addresses the physical realities of raising a baby daughter (hygiene, growth rates) and societal ones (no matter how hard you try to avoid it, "girl" clothes often come in pink).

It's got common sense advice on food, nurturing, and setting limits--and the language is warm, even friendly, without being "cute." A very good book.