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There are so many books and online resources these days
that are available for both you and your daughter. It may be difficult
to navigate through them all and choose the ones that suit you best!
Here are some great books that I myself and other mothers and teens
have found very informative, helpful and enjoyable.
that are available for both you and your daughter. It may be difficult
to navigate through them all and choose the ones that suit you best!
Here are some great books that I myself and other mothers and teens
have found very informative, helpful and enjoyable.
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
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Mother Daughter WisdomUnderstanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters and Health
By: Christiane Northrup Northrup writes using a holistic and well rounded approach in this fantastic book. One of my favorite readings, this book is packed with useful information, inspiration and advice to creating and maintaining a healthy and balanced bond between you and your daughter. |
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Swimming UpstreamParenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture
By: Lara H. Choate This is a helpful, informative book written with humor by a licensed counselor and educator about women and girls’ health and wellness. The author includes practical scripts and activities, focusing on boosting resilience in both you and your daughter. |
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UntangledGuiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
By: Lisa Damour, Ph.D. Damour presents each chapter as one of the 7 stages teenage girls go through, Parenting With Childhood, Joining a New Tribe, Harnessing Emotions, Contending with Adult Authority, Planning for the Future, Entering the Romantic World, and Caring for Herself. With concrete research and from her experience counseling girls and their parents, Damour provides useful suggestions, including specific language, to help any parent address the challenges of these major life transitions. |
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Becoming PeersMentoring Girls into Womanhood
By: DeAnna L'am An inspirational guide for any woman wishing to nurture a girl through her coming of age (while empowering herself as well!) This book provides practical guidelines for mentoring a girl into womanhood, offering creative activities and ceremonies designed to honor a girls transition, calling her to new levels of maturity. |
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Menarche A Journey into WomanhoodA mums & girls guide to celebrating her first period
By: Rachael Hertogs This is a great book for mothers and daughters to read together with suggested activities. Menarche A Journey into Womanhood is a great guide for mothers and daughters to celebrate the rite of passage of a girl's menarche. The book contains menarche stories, rituals and ideas to celebrate menstruation, ways to connect to the moon and understand and appreciate your cycle. |
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105 Ways to Celebrate MenstruationBy: Kami McBride
Written by a practitioner of female health, this is a valuable book for all menstruating women and women with teenage daughters to help create a healthier more balanced menstrual cycle and life. |
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The Seven Sacred Rites of MenarcheThe Spiritual Journey of the Adolescent Girl
By: Kristi Meisenbach Boylan This beautifully written book is highly recommended for parents with teenage daughters containing celebratory ways to honor the rite of passage of menarche in the lives of girls and mothers. |
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Beyond the Big TalkEvery Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens
By: Debra W. Haffner and Alyssa Haffner Tartaglione This book is a guide for adults about adolescent sexual development, influences, values, parent involvement, and practical advice on what to say and do. |
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Your Daughters BedroomInsights for Raising Confident Women
By: Joyce T. McFadden This books offers a refreshing perspective about the mother daughter bond and includes ways how mothers can create a more open and positive relationship with their daughters, while creating the right environment to raise healthy and confident young women. |
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Rise Sister RiseA Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within
By: Rebecca Campbell This is a great read for women feeling the call to rise into their power, tell their truth and lead. This book guides women to heal any patterns that have been holding them back and to cultivate her everyday wisdom and lead from that place. This book is full of tools, contemplative questions, rituals and exercises to teach women that it is safe to be powerful and be seen. |
books for girls, 8-11
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At Time to CelebrateA Celebration of a Girl's First Menstrual Period
By: Joan Morais This book shows your menstrual cycle as a gift and healthy function of your incredible female body. Included in this book are charts for keeping track with your cycle and interactive activities to journal your thoughts and feelings. This book is a great resource and companion for a girl beginning to bleed. It is never too late to celebrate this rite of passage. |
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Moon Mother Moon DaughterMyths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl's Coming of Age
By: Janet Lucy & Terri Allison This book is a great and inspiring guide for mothers and daughters to deepen their connection and journey together through the transition of girls becoming young women. This book contains stories, fun rituals and activities to bring about a renewed sense of power and legacy of the feminine. |
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Beautiful GirlCelebrating the Wonders of Your Body
By: Christian Northrup with Kristina Tracy This book is full of colorful imagery and depicts to young girls how perfect their bodies are, the importance of treating themselves with gentle self care, and how changes are just a part of growing up. Beautiful Girl presents an important yet simple message; that being born female is very special and with it carries magical gifts and powers that are important to be recognized and nurtured. |
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Reaching for the MoonBy: Lucy H Pearce
Written for girls age 9-14 this book contains great and special ways and to get to know and celebrate your menstrual cycle. Written by a mother and women's educator, Reaching for the Moon nurtures a girls transformation into womanhood. |
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First MoonCelebration and Support for a Girl's Growing-Up Journey
By: Maureen Theresa Smith This beautiful and fun book and interactive kit created for girls age 9-14, offers easy to understand information and guidance for girls going through puberty and emotional changes. |
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Menarche A Journey into WomanhoodA mums & girls guide to celebrating her first period
By: Rachael Hertogs This is a great guide for mothers and daughters to celebrate a girls menarche. Menarche A Journey into Womanhood contains menarche stories, rituals and ideas to celebrate menstruation, ways to connect to the moon and understand and appreciate your cycle. |
BOOKS FOR GIRLS, 12-18
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Express YourselfA Teen Girls Guide To Speaking Up and Being Who You Are
By: Emily Roberts This is a great book for teen girls wanting to feel empowered and confident in themselves. Using helpful techniques, this book shows how to have positive relationships and interactions with others, deal with difficult emotions that may arise, and implement practical strategies and communication styles to speak up and boost self esteem and confidence. |
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The Thundering YearsRituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens
By: Julie Tallard Johnson On the journey into adulthood, it is important for us to listen to our intense feelings, dreams, desires and goals. This books draws on the wisdom from cultures around the world, and the author offers ideas and strategies to creatively harness your powerful emotions and energy during your teenage years. |
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Cycle SavvyThe Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body
By: Toni Weschler This great informative book has a lot of answers to what you have probably been asking yourself about your cycle. This fun and educational book includes the practical benefits of charting your cycle, information on your menstruation and ovulation, mood and body changes and what is happening to your body during your teenage years. This book is highly recommended! |
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S.E.XThe All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College
By: Heather Corinna This book is a great resource on sex and sexuality. S.E.X. is filled with informative healthy sex education, discussion, advice and answers to all questions and thoughts about sex and sexuality. |
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The Little Black Book for GirlzA Book on Healthy Sexuality
By: St. Stephen's Community House (Corporate Author) This book is collaboratively written by a diverse group of teen girls who had curiosity, questions and input about sex and sexuality. They also interviewed leading health experts to get the facts about relationships, sex, menstruation, birth control, pregnancy, STD's, sexual assault, and pressures that young women face. |
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Full Frontall FeminismA young woman’s guide to why feminism matters
By: Jessica Valenti Written by a popular feminist, Valenti presents a youth friendly and fun to read current manual on the many issues facing women and girls today-and why it matters that we call ourselves feminists. |
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He We AreFeminism for the Real World
Edited by: Kelly Jensen Jensen gathers the work of many writers, artists, dancers and actors in this entertaining collection of writing and art, covering many topics from body positivity, romance, gender identity, friendships and more. |
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RespectA Girl's Guide to Getting Respect & Dealing When Your Line is Crossed
By: Courtney Macavinta and Andrea Vander Pluym This practical and helpful book supports teens girls to be assertive and have clear healthy boundaries and communication and receive and maintain the respect they deserve. |
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~ Helen Keller
~ Helen Keller