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Feminist parenting for a mother of daughters by Multcolib My Librarian Diana

Raise your daughters to know their own worth and be their own authentic selves. Also, keep them talking to you while they're growing up. These books can help.

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  • Getting to Calm

    Cool-headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens

    Kastner, Laura Scribner
    Things can get pretty explosive in Teen Rebellion Land. This book is very good at reminding you what your place is as a parent, what you can control and what you can't control, and it walks you through scenarios and gives you better ways to react,…
    Unknown, 2009Seattle, WA : ParentMap, ©2009. — 649.125 K1945g 2009
  • Cinderella Ate My Daughter

    Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-girl Culture

    Orenstein, Peggy
    Peggy Orenstein is such an entertaining writer, as well as being a thoughtful one, and here she offers some wisdom about dealing with the message girls are given everywhere that their main job is to be pretty, passive, and stereotypically feminine.
    Book, 2011New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©2011. — 305.23082 O669c 2011
  • Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen

    the Essential Conversations You Need to Have With Your Kids Before They Start High School - and How (best) to Have Them

    Icard, Michelle,
    Talk to them while they're young, before the opinions of their peers are all they care about. Don't get so involved with what you have to say that you don't use your listening superpower. This book can show you how to avoid common parental…
    Book, 2020New York : Harmony Books, [2020] — 306.874 I15f 2020
  • Mothering & Daughtering

    Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years

    Reynolds, Sil
    One half of Mothering and Daughtering was written by a mom for other mothers, the other by her daughter for other daughters. It’s all about keeping the lines of communication strong during the teen years. I like how sex-positive this is and that it…
    Book, 2013Boulder, CO : Sounds True, 2013. — 306.8743 M9184 2013
  • The Curse of the Good Girl

    Raising Authentic Girls With Courage and Confidence

    Simmons, Rachel, 1974-
    Women constantly give up their power in order to keep the peace. It gives mothers strategies for raising daughters who will not give in to societal pressure, girls who will discover and live as their own authentic selves.
    Book, 2009New York : Penguin Press, 2009. — 155.433 S592c 2009
  • Let's Talk About It

    the Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human

    Moen, Erika, 1983-
    All teens should read this graphic novel by Portland author Erica Moen, and I think it will also appeal to most teens. It shows a multiethnic set of realistic teen characters representing a wide diversity of body types (sizes, abilities, genders)…
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York [New York] : RH Graphic, [2021] — ygn 306.7 MOEN 2020
  • Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue

    How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes

    Brown, Christia Spears
    You're going to have a kid. That doesn't mean it's time to plan the gender reveal party. It's time to conquer your own biases so you can parent a child, any child, in a non-binary way.
    Book, 2014Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2014] — 649.1 B87752p 2014
  • The Myth of the Perfect Girl

    Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School and Life

    Homayoun, Ana
    There's not one way to live, one way to be. Help your daughter find her authentic self and follow her own path.
    Book, 2013New York : A Perigee Book, 2013. — 306.874 H763m 2013
  • Talk Sex Today

    What Kids Need to Know and How Adults Can Teach Them

    Noon, Saleema, 1971-
    This is a really good, inclusive, respectful, and sex-positive book for adults trying to help kids grow up to be healthy sexual people.
    Book, 2016Kelowna, BC, Canada : Wood Lake, [2016] — 649.65 N817t 2016