Mothers today must raise girls in a vastly different environment than they themselevs experienced. In this practical book, Dr. Ann Caron first discusses what is happening to girls' bodies and minds in this maturating period and then raises issues that affect mothers and daughters daily: trust, dependency, sex, peers and friends, competition, alcohol and drugs, discipline, and much more.
It's a bit dated and could definitely use an update. It would be great to have tips for girls navigating the internet and social media. That said, this is definitely reassuring as it showed me I'm not doing such a bad job raising my daughters as I feared.
Despite the melodramatic title, this is actually a pretty great reality check for any mom with an adolescent daughter. I wish I'd read it when my daughter was 11 or 12.