Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens (Secret Keeper Girl) [Paperback]

Dannah Gresh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2010 | Series: Secret Keeper Girl

Bestselling author, speaker, and founder of the Secret Keeper Girl conferences, Dannah Gresh shares with moms the secret to helping today’s girls grow up confident, grace-filled, and strong in their faith.

Studies show that the foundation for an emotionally healthy teen girl is built between the ages of 8-12 and that a good relationship with mom is one of the most important factors. So when the world wants girls to grow up too fast, how does a mother help her young daughter navigate the stormy waters of boy-craziness, modesty and body image, media, Internet safety, and more? With a warm, transparent style, Dannah Gresh shares six ways a mom can help protect and guide her daughter, including:

• help her celebrate her body in a healthy way
• unbrand her when the world tries to buy and sell her
• unplug her from a plugged-in world
• dream with her about her prince, and more

This wonderful resource also provides moms a Connection IQ Inventory to test their mom- daughter relationship, creative and fun activities to do together, and Scriptures for the mom to pray for her daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (September 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736929797
• ISBN-13: 978-0736929790
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #7 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Teen Health > Sexuality

More About the Author

Dannah Gresh is a best-selling author and the founder of Pure Freedom, (purefreedom.org) and is the creator of Secret Keeper Girl (secretkeepergirl.com). She is a frequent guest who is called upon to defend the conservative position of abstinence in mediums such as The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and TIME. Her most recent best-sellers are "Six Ways To Keep The Little In Your Girl: Guiding Your Tween To Her Teens" and "What Are You Waiting For: The One Thing No One Ever Tells You About Sex." She lives with her family and a wonderful menagerie of pets in the Happy Valley of State College, Pennsylvania.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To the point and challenging, October 1, 2010

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This review is from: Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens (Secret Keeper Girl) (Paperback)

This isn't a book that just tells you to "be a good mom" without giving any practical advice as to how and why. Six Ways gives fantastic, well-researched information about the tween years and what's going on in a person's brain during those years. She then translates that into why it's critical to focus on helping your daughter form her convictions and beliefs during those years. Suddenly I understood that my daughter's questions about forgiveness, faith and trust were not only normal, but very healthy! I realized that her questions aren't attacks on me as a mom, but they are critical to the foundation of the faith she will walk in the rest of her days. This is one book I'm telling all guardians of tween girls to read.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for a mom of a tween girl, September 27, 2010

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This review is from: Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens (Secret Keeper Girl) (Paperback)

This is a great resource for moms of tween girls. Good balance between research and information and practical tips. Love her focus on parent-child connectedness...I think we all need a reminder of just how important that is. Looking forward to buying 8 Great Dates next...and maybe a visit to a SKG event very soon!

23 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME RESOURCE FOR MOM, GRANDMA or AUNT, October 11, 2010

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This review is from: Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens (Secret Keeper Girl) (Paperback)

My copy of "Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl" arrived last night. I just finished it. I literally devoured this book. I have always loved Dannah's writing and speaking style and fully agree with her message. She gave me the strength to keep my promise to wait until my husband and I said "I do" at our wedding alter for my first kiss. Had it not been for "The Bide Wore White" I might have caved to the pressures put on me at that time in my life. I am so thankful I waited for God's perfect timing.

"Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl" is the next step for me. While I am still waiting for God to bless me with my own precious little princess, I am trying to prepare myself in advance for some of the hard questions I know I will get. I also don't want to repeat the mistakes that were made in my life with my daughter or have her go through the pain I have had to deal with because of sexual abuse. Had there been someone who knew what to look for when I was younger; the problems could have been avoided or dealt with immediately instead of being buried and festering. Reading Dannah's advice opens my eyes to the correct way to help my little girl through the tough tween years into her teens. It answers questions about when and how to have age appropriate conversations about sex, puberty and her period. How to help her have a healthy body image. What are age appropriate toys and media for her and what isn't appropriate at all. And dreaming with her about her future prince. Dannah also recommends a plethora of wonderful resources of a mom's toolkit. As I continue my research for my purity girls study I will defiantly be checking out more of the items she recommends.

I have started praying for my daughter and her future mate as a result of reading this book and I will be passing it on to several friends with tween daughters and granddaughters who are trying to raise sexually pure "Little" girls. If you have a daughter between the ages of 6 and 13 I strongly recommend this book. It is a wonderful tool for any mom, grandma, or aunt.