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200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem: An Indespensable Guide for Parents, Teachers & Other Concerned Caregivers

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The good parts of this book: the recommendations are practical, reasonable, and, in the long run, pretty straight-forward. Some examples of the 200 items: Get your priorities straight; Teach her to set healthy boundaries. In all, not a bad checklist.

This book probably is useful to parents or caregivers who need to review or talk about these items. For parents or caregivers to a child with moderate academic, social, or emotional problems, however, this book is insufficient. Readers should turn to books by Myrna Shure, Martin Seligman, and others.

This book matches a similar book for boys, from the same publisher, 200 Ways to Raise a Boy's Emotional Intelligence. Why is it that we think of self-esteem for girls and emotional intelligence for boys?

Bottom Line:  It's a buy for any parent, teacher, or caregiver working with girls.

Best feature:  Each of the 200 "ways" has a short action step individualized for both parents and teachers.  Makes implementation of the ideas much easier.

Pet peeve:  No index....aarggh!

What a find! Borrowed from the library and soon to become a core source of smart, practical and important strategies for helping my daughter navigate her complicated world and become a person of strength and generousity.
It is the type of book useful to those who enjoy well written parenting books and those who want something that they can pick up and put down, as time permits.

It is an eye opener to the realities of a girls self esteem. The everyday challenges girls face are very well defined.

I like it a lot. The reading, the explanations, the examples... easy and understandable. I am a mother and it helps me a lot in practical way.

Highly recommended for parents struggling to parent to ensure their children - especially daughters - to grow up with a high sense of self-esteem, confidence, and respect for themselves and others. Get this book, it helps parents look at negative situations in a positive way to create a win-win for both the parent and the child.