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Raising Strong and Confident Daughters

+Challenges

Multiple pressures Family, peers, school, health issues

Media saturated culture Social networking, Internet, TV, phones

Gender roles/expectations

Unhelpful messages

Bullying and violence in schools

Body image

Dangerous risk taking

+School Achievement

How to avoid “dumbing down”

Reinforcing interests and achievements

+How do we support young people in growing up whole and move beyond the cultural limitations of gender roles?

• Be beautiful• Be skinny• Be sexy

• Be sure to please others

GIRL BOX

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+Tasks for Girls

Transition from childhood to adolescence

Join the larger culture and develop identity, independence and relationship skills

Path to a healthy development

Obstacles The message from popular culture is often debasing and

dangerous Pressure to conform can result in risky and dangerous

values and behavior

+Friendship

In-depth relationship with many important components

Be a friend to make a friend

Apply foundations of friendship to parent-daughter relationship Importance of trust Comfortable conversations

+Individuality

Girls don’t always strive to be unique

Popularity and trends

Tough job for parents It’s OK to deviate from “cookie-cutter” image Uniqueness is valuable

+Harassment

Verbal, physical, or sexuality

Two common forms: bullying and teasing

Lessons for daughters: How to ward off potential violators What is appropriate physical contact NO MEANS NO

+Sexism

Definition

Women are the most common victims

The working world

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