Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls by Chelsey GoodanRating: ✩✩✩✩✩
As a parent of teenage girls and a person who works with teenagers, this book was such a breath of fresh air. So many books about parenting teenagers, especially those that feature teen girls, are focused on the negative and a need to change and discipline every aspect of teen's very being. To see Goodan highlight the truth behind the sometimes prickly exteriors.
Covering topics ranging from beauty to sex to academics and back again, I wish this could be required reading for anyone parenting or working with adolescents. The combination of anecdotes, research and helpful summaries makes each chapter a standalone "manual" to understanding the lives of today's teens. Once insight into the often unexpressed inner lives of girls is explored, the reader is offered simple, actionable tips for communicating openly and respectfully with a group that is often relegated to the receivers of lectures, criticisms and dismissals.
Just an overall fantastic read that I will be sharing with all my fellow parents and girls and the girls themselves.
Published on 05 March 2024 by Gallery Books
Book #99 of 2023
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