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• Getting to Calm

  Cool-headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens

  Kastner, Laura Scribner

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cinderella Ate My Daughter

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

  Orenstein, Peggy

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  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.

• 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,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mothering & Daughtering

  Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years

  Reynolds, Sil

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curse of the Good Girl

  Raising Authentic Girls With Courage and Confidence

  Simmons, Rachel, 1974-

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  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.

• Let's Talk About It

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

  Moen, Erika, 1983-

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  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)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Ijeawele, Or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  This gorgeously written short book takes the form of a letter to the author's friend, a new parent. It's something all prospective parents should read.

• Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue

  How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes

  Brown, Christia Spears

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  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.

• The Myth of the Perfect Girl

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

  Homayoun, Ana

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  There's not one way to live, one way to be. Help your daughter find her authentic self and follow her own path.

• Talk Sex Today

  What Kids Need to Know and How Adults Can Teach Them

  Noon, Saleema, 1971-

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  This is a really good, inclusive, respectful, and sex-positive book for adults trying to help kids grow up to be healthy sexual people.

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