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Raising independent, confident girls today is not easy-but concerned parents can curb the outside world's influence on their daughters. With an expert child psychologist's unique program, parents can counteract society's pressure without making their girls live in a bubble. Princess Recovery will help parents raise strong, sweet daughters when they encourage them to pursue their passion with industry and intelligence and to establish high but realistic...

Many teens suffer emotional abuse from their peers, family and other trusted adults. Emotional abuse can be difficult to define as there may not be physical signs, however it is clear that this form of destructive behavior is based on power and control. Emotional abuse can affect a students self-esteem and greatly impair psychological development and social interaction. It can manifest itself in social withdrawal, severe anxiety, fearfulness, depression,...

"From high-profile women's professional leagues to high-school-level champions, girl athletes are achieving record breakthroughs. Female athletes are especially beloved of today's teenage girls, who are almost as likely to have pictures of Rebecca Lobo, Mia Hamm, or Gabrielle Reece on their walls as posters of Leonardo DiCaprio. It seems almost paradoxical, then, that in this age of strong female role models, so many books and studies describe the...

Everybody who has survived adolescence knows what a scary, tumultuous, exciting time it is. But if we use memories of our experiences to guide our understanding of what today's girls are living through, we make a serious mistake. Our daughters are living in a new world. Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms from Dr. Mary Pipher, a psychologist who has worked with teenagers for more than a decade. She finds that in spite of the women's movement, which...