Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“We want our daughters to be curious and independent and ambitious. We want them to make good choices, to have the resilience to bounce back from their ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ decisions, and to possess the strength to recover from plain bad luck.”

“the more conscious you are of the way you were parented, the more likely you are to make better decisions when it comes to raising your daughter.”

“We want our daughters to be curious and independent and ambitious. We want them to make good choices, to have the resilience to bounce back from their ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ decisions, and to possess”

“First, the good news. Our girls have more opportunities than their mothers and aunties. When it comes to education, they’re smashing it in the classroom, outperforming boys at high school and university.”

“Why is this happening? Why are girls who appear to be swimming in a world of opportunity drowning in insecurity and self-loathing? Because the world can be toxic for girls. We know that’s a big claim, but the reality is that many girls are growing up in a society where they will be invisible if they don’t act sexy, and be branded a slut if they do.”

“And you know what? That’s okay. Children don’t need perfect parents. They just need good-enough parents.”

“If we encourage our kids to be active, to play outside and to eat healthy food because it’s good for their growing bodies, bones and brains, and not because they need to hit some arbitrary figure on a weight chart, then we have done our job. More than ever, we need to be teaching our girls that the goal should be the process of living a healthy life and not the outcome of meeting a commercially driven standard of beauty.”