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Raising Girls: Why Girls are Different - And How to Help Them Grow Up Happy and Confident | 
 enlarge | Creator: Gisela Preuschoff
Publisher: Harper Thorsons
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 2967
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 000720485X
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780007204854
ASIN: 000720485X
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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 What rubbish! January 6, 2009
Rie Kondo (UK)
This is a disorganised, badly written book which is full of statements lacking justification.
Sometimes it's plain bewildering, like when the author spends 2.5 pages writing about how horse riding is really, really good for girls. It only makes sense when you learn later that author's daughter rides horses.
Sometimes it's laughable. eg the bit that goes "Do you know if organic veggies ("veggies"??) are available where you live? Have you thought about ("earth"?? who is that??) intended us to enjoy its product... this way you'll have your child eating almost everything you offer her." Having cooked home made organic food from scratch since weaning, only to be refused by an extremely fussy daughter, I was left speechless by this incredible and unjustified simplification.
Sometimes it's infuriating, like the quote about why did you have children if you were going to get them looked after by strangers. I'm a working mother always struggling with childcare, and I have observed that my son and my daughter have different physical/emotional aspects that need to be fulfilled by the childcarer. This book deals with none of those issues or differences. "I will give you one piece of advice about returning to work - follow your heart, if your financial situation allows it" is about as useful as it gets.
I think it's a load of ranting by someone with limited knowledge of the subject and limited writing skills (maybe it makes more sense in its original German version).
Dissappointed March 27, 2008
Dizzy (Essex UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Basic parenting advice.....but strongly biased against girls.....
"Raising Boys" was such an amazing, groundbreaking book, that I had high expectations for this one....
Don't waste your money -look at
JoAnn Deak and Elizabeth Hartley Brewer..........
Very disappointing March 6, 2008
Mrs. Debbie Ashwood
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like Steve Biddulph, and grabbed this book in a hurry (distracted by teething baby girl, tantrumming girl toddler and impatient 5 year old girl) without properly reading the blurb - my own fault but I thought this was the long-awaited mirror to Biddulph's Raising Boys and gratefully bought it.
Big disappointment - of course it is not by Biddulph (and I strongly feel he should not have endorsed it) and I gained very little from the book - most of it is either obvious, opinionated or waffle.
I learnt more about my three girls from Raising Boys!
Disappointed by hypocrisy August 28, 2007
Liesl Hiscox (Madrid, Spain)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
After the birth of my son, I read Raising Boys by Steven Biddulph and found it extremely useful. After the birth of my daughter, I was looking for a similar book focusing on girls issues and came across this book. It started out well but totally lost me after Ms Preuschoff suggested that fairytales were great for girls but Barbie was bad. Apparently, girls can learn life lessons from fairytales whereas Barbie is just harmful. At no point in the book, does the author justify her view. In my opinion, if Barbie is bad for a girl then the fairytale princess stories filling little girls heads with beauty and romance are not good either, especially in the commercial Disney age in which we live. Basically, I feel that I learnt nothing from this book, and only came away disappointed by the author's hypocrisy.
 Well, I like it May 20, 2007
Mr. J. S. Jarrett (UK)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Ok so I am only 3 quarters through it but I did that in one flight. I am a father, I have 3 children, two of which are girls. I have found the book to be very useful so far. The fact that girls have 10 times the sensory endings in their skin as boys do, explains a lot! Yes there are some opinions but yes there is a lot of content that I found really useful, and some of which I wish I had known earlier.
Favourite quote so far, "What we occupy ourselves with every day moulds us."
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