Recommended Resources for Parents

You can find these books at your school or community library. Or, click on the books to order them through Amazon.com.

General Parenting Resources

	Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters by Virginia Rutter
	Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast by Joe Kelly
	How To Say It (R) To Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter (How to Say It) by Nancy Gruver
	Stressed-Out Girls: Helping them Thrive in the Age of Pressure by Roni Cohen-Sandler

Bodies and Body Image


Books:

	101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body by Brenda Richardson and Elane Rehr
	When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence by Sandra Susan Friedman
	Am I Fat?: Helping Young Children Accept Differences in Body Size: Suggestions for Teachers, Parents and Other Care Providers by Joanne Ikeda and Priscilla Naworski
	Your Dieting Daughter...Is She Starving For Attention? by Carolyn Costin

Videos:

Body Talk: Teens Talk about Their Bodies, Eating Disorders and Activism. Produced by the Body Positive, 1999, Berkeley, CA.


Websites:

Eating Disorder Awareness and Prevention, Inc. (EDAP): http://www.edap.org

The Body Positive: http://www.thebodypositive.org




Media Literacy


Books:

	Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne and Mary Pipher
	Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown

Websites:

http://www.about-face.org

http://www.dadsanddaughters.org

http://www.newmoon.org

Dove/Campaign for Real Beauty: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com

Short clip on "what it takes to make an ad": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U

Watch the film: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909

Dove Self Esteem Fund: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/dsef/

Take the quizzes: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/dsef/temp2.asp?id=4173




Social/Relational Lives of Girls

	Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls by Lyn Mikel Brown
	Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying by Cheryl Dellasega & Charisse Nixon
	Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons
	Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman

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