I'm splitting my precious reading time between two books right now - Girls will be Girls (Deak) and The New Feminine Brain by Mona Lisa Schultz. Like wine and cheese (which often accompanies my reading, and probably does little for my retention) they make a nice pairing.
One of Deak's primary pieces of advice (or anti-advice?) for parents of girls is:
"Probably the worst thing we can do as adults, to handicap girls, is to encourage them in any way to want or need things in total order or control. They're already inclined that way. The best thing we can do is to help them learn to grow in a climate where chaos--internal or external--is always in the three-day forecast."
Amen.
Now if I could just learn to deal with that forecast...
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