Things Will Be Different for My Daughter: A Practical Guide to Building Her Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance

Offers Concrete Advice And Strategies On How To Raise Your Daughter To Be Confident And Capable. 1. Self-esteem: A Key To Unlocking Your Daughter's Future -- 2. What Attitudes, Experiences, And Feelings Do You Bring To Parenting? -- 3. Redefining Femininity -- 4. Resolving The Conflict Women Feel Between Femininity And Achievement -- 5. Forming An Identity As An Achiever -- 6. Developing A Hardy Personality -- 7. Where To Start? -- 8. Your Role -- 9. Your Plan -- 10. Infant, Toddler, Preschooler -- 11. Ages Six To Ten -- 12. Adolescent -- 13. Games Girls Play -- 14. Once Upon A Time -- 15. Lessons Learned From The Media -- 16. Lessons Learned In School -- 17. Math, Science, And Computers -- 18. Lessons Learned On The Playing Field -- 19. Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall -- 20. I'm Nobody Till Somebody Loves Me -- 21. Sex And The Teenage Girl -- 22. Developing Healthy Sexual Attitudes -- 23. Getting Girls Ready For Career Education -- 24. Helping Girls Realize Their Career Potential -- 25. Strategies For Mixing Career And Family -- 26. Out Into The World -- 27. Advocacy For Girls -- 28. Forming Mother-daughter Groups -- 29. Letters Of Healing, Letters Of Dreams. Mindy Bingham And Sandy Stryker ; With Susan Allstetter Neufeldt. A Penguin Original--p. [4] Of Cover. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [477]-481) And Index.