This ground-breaking book gives you the 7 essential parenting pillars to protect and free your daughter from anxiety, depression, body hatred, poor self-esteem, peer pressure and friendship problems, and limiting her own potential.

When you raise a girl who likes herself, everything else follows.

She will strive for excellence because she has faith in her ability to achieve it and the confidence to pick herself up.

She will nurture her physical and mental health because it's natural to care for something you love.

She will insist on healthy relationships because she believes she deserves nothing less.

She will be joyful and secure, knowing that her greatest friend and most capable ally is herself.

Packed with practical, evidence-based advice, it is the indispensable guide to raising a girl who is happy and confident in herself.

Free of parental guilt and grounded in research, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves is imbued with the warmth and wit of a mum and dad who are in the same parenting trenches as you, fighting for their daughters' futures.

Order Raising Girls Who Like Themselves to find out... 

• One tiny parenting tweak to help your daughter believe in herself (pg 12)
• A major cause of anxiety that is often overlooked and how to mitigate it (pg 5)
• Why girls grow up super-sensitive about what other people think and how to prevent it (pg 18)
• What to do and say about make-up (pg 65)
• How the current approach to building girls’ body confidence is actually making it worse (pg 35)
• One rule that will bring crystal clarity to every little question about what you should let your daughter wear (pg 68)
• What to do if you think your daughter is above her natural weight (pg 45)
• What to do if your daughter is teased for being fat (pg 47)
• How health-conscious parents can deal with junk food without turning their child into a closet eater (pg 55)
• How to get kids moving more (pg 59)
• Complete a body confidence family health check (pg 60)
• Take the pressure off and lose the guilt by learning what the research actually says about screen time and homework (pg 107, 114)
• Find out if your daughter is getting enough sleep (pg 120)
• Why telling your child that they are awesome all the time is doing more harm than good and what to do instead (pg 126)
• The secret to real and enduring self-esteem (pg 129)
• Successful kids know the difference between being a failure and failing well (pg 140)
• Using praise the right way to build mastery and independence (pg 145)
• Help her to choose friends who are good for her (pg 160)
• Build and maintain strong friendship by learning how to handle conflict the right way (pg 163)
• One simple technique to reduce the frequency and severity of bullying (pg 162)
• When to get involved in your daughter’s friendship problems and when to stay out (pg 165)
• A simple time-saving hack to strengthen your own relationship with your daughter (pg 173)
• Help your daughter to find her strengths (pg 182)
• Why we need to raise “real girls” rather than a “good girls” (pg 188)
• How to reduce conflict with your daughter (pg 197)
• And more...

After reading Raising Girls Who Like Themselves...

you will go from worrying whether your daughter will grow up happy and healthy in today’s society to feeling confident and excited about her future.

With our practical and proven approach you can raise a resilient girl who likes herself, today, tomorrow and for the rest of her life.

Raising Girls Who Like Themselves will give you...

• A detailed description of the 7 pillars that every girl who likes herself must have and why

  The 7 parenting pillars for raising your girl to like herself includes: Power Perspective, Body Confidence, Body Ownership, Mastery and Independence, a sense of Calm, Strong Relationships, and Authenticity.
  
  

• Proven strategies to build and strengthen each pillar

  Every strategy is backed by extensive and high quality research and the advice of the world's leading experts. We have put all the puzzle pieces together to give you a complete parenting approach.
  
  

• Practical actions that you can implement right now

  Unlike a lot of parenting advice that is very nice in theory but impossible to implement in real life, every strategy has been successfully implemented in our own busy, complicated, imperfect family. 
  
  

• Solutions to future problems you haven't even thought of yet

  Our comprehensive approach will give your daughter the foundation skills and tools to successfully navigate the challenges that lay ahead.
  
  

• Consistency and alignment with your parenting partner

  We wrote this book for dads as much as we did for mums. But from our experience, we have noticed that many dads do not read as much parenting advice as mums. We have therefore added a brief "Action for Dads" section for each pillar, detailing a low-effort-high-impact technique to help your daughter thrive.