An Empowering Book for Parenting Daughters with Self Worth “200 short reflections on topics ranging from how parents can become good role models to talking about emotions.”— Publisher’s Weekly As kids, girls often advance faster than boys, but fall behind by the time they are teens, victims of low self esteem and confusing standards of womanhood. 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem is a guide to raising teenage daughters with straightforward advice for people working with preteen girls who want to help girls build positive self-images and develop full lives. Be an example for your daughter. Raising healthy girls becomes easy as you advise and create rituals that are empowering young girls in their transition to adulthood with 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem . Prevent anxiety and depression as you raise happy and confident teenage daughters. Affirming advice to empower your teenage daughters. Author of million-selling Random Acts of Kindness , Will Glennon, guides you through parenting daughters—like empowering girls through carefully considered "boosters,” and learning the subtle differences that can make them “busters”. For example, complimenting a woman’s appearance implies her value is in her looks, but complimenting her on a completed assignment helps her trust her intelligence. Find ways to impart a strong sense of self-worth as you go about parenting daughters, turning strong girls into strong women. Inside, find tips on uplifting teenage daughters, like: How to boost your girl’s self esteem - How to lead your daughter into womanhood - How to be a good example when raising teenage daughters If you liked books for parenting daughters like Love Her Well , Thrivers , or Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety , you’ll love 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem . “Anyone familiar with parenting books and magazines is aware that there has been a lot of buzz about research suggesting that self-confidence wanes in preadolescent girls. After watching his own daughter, "a tough little amazing wonderkid at the age of five," suddenly and completely "lose her moorings' ' by 12, Glennon began doing some research himself. The end result is this book, which resembles Richard Carlson's Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in its accessibility, brief entries and sincere tone. Glennon offers 200 short reflections on topics ranging from how parents can become good role models to talking about emotions and providing experiences for self-discovery and success. Following each essay are several exercises to put theory into practice directed toward parents and teachers. At its best, the book nudges readers to talk about some things that may not have occurred to them, such as what advertising tells young girls and how to recognize sexual harassment. Many ideas, however, are obvious and impart simple bumper-sticker adages ("make the expression of love a daily habit," "celebrate milestones'' and the wooly "invite her feelings into your world"). While Glennon can be preachy and repetitious (100 ways would have been sufficient), his heartfelt, helpful advice rings clear.”— Publisher’s Weekly Will Glennon is the author of 200 Ways to Raise a Boy's Emotional Intelligence , 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem , and an editor of the bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series. He is a regular columnist for the  Daughters newsletter and sits on the Board of Advisors for Dads & Daughters , a national parenting organization. The father of two children, a son and a daughter, Glennon lives in Berkeley, California. Jungian analyst and author of Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters and Understanding Our Daughters, Understanding Ourselves: Staying Connected in the Adolescent Years My daughter was one of those little girls who never seemed to have any questions about her own value and importance. She was headstrong, confident, assertive, always knew what she wanted, and was never shy about letting you know. My image of her as a small child is wonderfully captured in a beautiful photo taken when she was five years old. She is wearing a cornflower blue dress, staring directly into the camera with a beautifully smug smile on her face, and casually holding a plastic machine gun across her body. Even though I struggled with the toy gun issue, I have to admit that photo tells the whole story—she was all right there, nothing held back, and you’d better not get in her way. So what happened seven years later came as a complete shock to me. She was twelve, and she had been acting out of sorts for a couple of weeks, kind of moping around sniffling. When I finally asked her what was going on, she burst into tears and melted down in a puddle of self-doubt, saying she didn’t like herself, didn’t think she did anything right, that everything she said was stupid, and even her feelings were dumb. I think I must have just stared at her in shocked silence for at least five minutes. I just couldn’t comp