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Raising Girls by Steve Biddulph — WisdomDeck honest review
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Raising Girls

by Steve Biddulph

Biddulph's companion to Raising Boys: five stages of girlhood, the pressures of sexualisation and social media, body image, friendship cruelty, and the role of fathers and 'aunties'. Warm, direct and slightly old-fashioned.

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Read it if…

you are raising a daughter and want a staged map with warmth.

Skip it if…

you want research citations; it is a practitioner's book.

Three things you will actually use

  1. Each stage has one main job.
  2. Aunties and mentors matter.
  3. Fathers teach daughters what to expect from men.

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Read the chapter for your daughter's current stage.

Our verdict

A staged map for daughters.

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