Takeaways from Previous Community Events
After each GAP! community event we compile “takeaways” that will help you along your parenting journey. It takes a community to raise girls, let’s raise them up together. Keep your eye out on the next upcoming event and sign-up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date with all things GAP!
“How It Feels to Be Me” Teen Panel
“How to Talk to Your Teen About Food”
“Let’s Talk About Gender Diversity” with Stephanie Brill
“Feelings and Food: Tools for Good Talks (and Fewer Conflicts!) about Eating Habits and Nutrition”
“How to Talk about Suicide with your Kids” • Local & National Suicide Prevention Resources
Book Discussion of “Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls,” by Lisa Damour, Ph.D.
Social Issues
- Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls Series by Meg Cabot
- American Girl Books on Friendship
- Once Upon a Heroine books by Alison Cooper-Mullin and Jennifer Marmaduke Coye
Communication Skills
- How to Talk to Little Girls by Lisa Bloom – about valuing brains over beauty in conversing with little girls
Sex Education
- Dating Safety A pamphlet on talking with your teen about dating
Father-Daughter
Self-Esteem
- 200 Ways to Raise a Girl’s Self Esteem by Will Glennon
- Brave Girls Alliance Families are trending towards wanting more empowered and healthy media characters for their daughters. More recently, Merida of the movie “Brave” is beloved for being a different kind of princess–one who doesn’t promote stereotypical beauty, passivity, and waiting for rescue from a prince. Instead, Merida tells girls: “It’s okay to be strong, adventurous, spirited, and an individual. You can be amazing without the focus on beauty and romance.”
- Engineer Girl The EngineerGirl website is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women.
- GirlFuture A resource provided by Independent Girls, Inc., a nonprofit whose mission is to educate and empower girls ages 9-15 to set goals, think for themselves, and have high self-esteem by introducing them to real and positive role models that they can emulate to achieve truly successful, independent lives.
- Girlology Books, classes and discussions on girl puberty
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development by Carol Gilligan, PhD
- Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
- Positive Book Role Models for Girls: Heroines and Girl Detectives Suggestions from Common Sense Media
- Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman
- Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, PhD
- The Curse of the Good Girl by Rachel Simmons
- The Trouble with Bright Girls by Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD
Parenting
- 📽️Dan Siegel Speaks At Center For Arts, “How Our Relationships Shape Us” Powerful and thought-provoking presentation about the relationships we have in our lives and how they shape the person who we have become.
- American Psychological Association Search for “Staying Connected: A Guide for Parents on Raising an Adolescent Daughter”
- Common Sense Media Nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that provides media reviews and advice for parents
- Daughters/New Moon Magazine Great magazine!
- Dr. Tim Jordan He has more than 30 years experience working with girls of all ages.
- Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters by JoAnn Deak, PhD with Theresa Barker
- Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls–Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins by Leonard Sax, MD, PhD
- Help! The Kids Are at It Again: Using Kids’ Quarrels to Teach “People” Skills by Elizabeth Crary
- How Girls Thrive by JoAnn Deak, PhD
- How To Land Your Kid In Therapy by Lori Gottlieb in August 2011 Atlantic Monthly Magazine
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- If I Should Have a Daughter … Poem presented by Sarah Kay at Ted Talk
- KidSource Provides guidance for supporting girls in early adolescence
- Kids in the House Kids in the House is an educational website about parenting. The 8,000 videos on this website feature interviews with the top experts in parenting, including physicians, psychologists, researchers, educators and best-selling authors, as well as leaders of national organizations. The site’s videos also feature parents who have dealt with particular issues and can share their hard-earned wisdom.
- PBS Parents Parenting tips and advice
- Raising a Powerful Girl How do you raise a powerful girl and what does that mean?
- Search Institute The Search Institute is a well established organization that researches and shares information on Developmental Assets for children birth-adolescence. Recommended by Raising Girls friend Dr. Jane C. Coe Smith, PhD, LCPC.
- Sex Ed For Parents Who Really Don’t Want to Talk About Sex A document created by Meg Meeker, MD per Raising Girls’ request for our February 28, 2012 speaker event (featuring Dr. Meeker)
- Simple Truths with Mary Flo Ridley Life Timeline
- The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity by Meg Meeker, MD
- The Blessing of a B Minus by Wendy Mogel, PhD
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel, PhD
- The Parent/Teen Breakthrough by Mira Kirshenbaum & Charles Foster
- The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine, PhD
- The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters by Michael Gurian
- What’s Behind A Temper Tantrum? Scientists Deconstruct The Screams Tantrums have a pattern and rhythm to them. Once understood, researchers say, this pattern can help parents, teachers and even hapless bystanders respond more effectively to temper tantrums — and help clinicians tell the difference between ordinary tantrums, which are a normal part of a child’s development, and those that may be warning signals of an underlying disorder.
- Your Daughter’s Bedroom: Insights for Raising Confident Women by Joyce McFadden
- What a Difference a Daddy Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Dad Leaves on His Daughter’s Life by Kevin Leman, PhD
- IT HAREÂ Tips for Getting Girls Involved in STEM Science and engineering play a huge role in how we learn about the world and develop ways to advance our well being. While the United States is known for its higher education compared to other leading nations, we lack in educating engineers and scientists. One of the big reasons that the United States has fallen behind in science and engineering is that not enough is being done to encourage females to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
