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Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture

Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their ability to gain attention, and an ever-increasing accrual of accomplishments. With such unattainable standards, it is no wonder that many girls experience stress, self-doubt, and even mental health problems. Girls struggle to develop an authentic sense of self, even as they attempt to meet a set of impossible cultural expectations.

Many parents feel helpless against the onslaught of negative influences targeting their daughters, but in Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture, Laura Choate offers a message of reassurance. This book provides parents with a set of straightforward tools they can use to help their daughters navigate the trials and demands of contemporary girlhood. Choate draws upon years of research and counseling literature to teach parents how to instill the power of resilience in their daughters, including developing a positive body image, maintaining healthy relationships with friends and romantic partners, and navigating high-pressure academic environments.

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Author Laura Choate
ISBN 0199391130
Publication Date Nov 2, 2015
Publisher Oxford University Press
Language English
Category Body Image / Self-Esteem, Child Sexualization, Gender Research, Parent / Child Relationships, Physical / Emotional Development
Parenting Books Age Pre-Teen, Teen