Raising Our Daughters

"Raising Our Daughters," a companion book to "Raising Our Sons," is a compilation of over 200 of the best parenting resources by more than 120 authors organized into 10 easy-to-understand chapters. ROD is organized as a parenting guide for individual learning and/or group discussion with other parents. It is also Search Institute approved and designed to help families and communities enhance the 40 Developmental Assets for their children. Each chapter contains a list of action steps you can take to put your new knowledge into practice as well as a list of resources to explore the chapter's theme more deeply. CHAPTER TITLES: 1) What's Happening to My Daughter? 2) What Influences Her? 3) Raising Her 4) Celebrating Womanhood 5) Empowering Her 6) Teaching Her 7) Making Time for Her 8) Keeping Her Safe 9) Supporting Her 10) Creating Community TESTIMONIALS "These magnificent guides will deepen and strengthen every family that uses them. They will build community and allow us to develop emotionally sturdy, well-behaved and civic-minded children." -- Mary Pipher, PhD (Lincoln, Nebraska) Author of "Reviving Ophelia," "Shelter of Each Other," "The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture" and many other books about how American culture influences the mental health of its people "As a Head of School, it is very important for me to offer and have on hand appropriate and engaging resources. Dr. Masarie's "Raising Our Daughters" is not only engaging and appropriate, but it is perfect and offers a fantastic forum for supporting parents as they raise their daughters. I am also the mother of two girls, and I must say that reading this book AND creating a group is what makes it really work. I love this book and would love to see that it was required reading for all parents!" - Cathy Newman, Head of Sunstone School (Portland, Oregon) "Dr. Kathy Masarie and her approach to raising emotionally healthy children has been a constant source of inspiration for me. I have put into action many of the ideas provided in the discussion groups, helping me to instill self-confidence and nurture a close, open and mutually rewarding relationship with both my daughter and my son." -- Katherine Melchior Ray, International Marketing Expert (Tokyo, Japan)