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Your Daughter's Bedroom: Insights For Raising Confident Women (2011)

by Joyce T. McFadden(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0230103626 (ISBN13: 9780230103627)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

review 1: I liked the central message of this book - that it is important to not have "The Talk" with your daughter, but to make brief, subtle references to issues about sex and body image throughout her upbringing. But the way that this message was delivered made it difficult for me to connect. The book consists of stories taken from women in therapy, and each little vignette was murmuring in the background: don't let this happen to you. In short, hearing about how countless of women have screwed up their relationships with their mothers and daughters was not particularly inspiring. I think that the same message of confronting your daughter's sexuality and dealing with it positively is handled much better by other books.
review 2: This would have been a far more interes... moreting book if it just reproduced the questionnaires the author occasionally quotes from. Or it would have been a nice article highlighting ways that mother's attitudes towards sex and body image have a great influence on daughters. I would imagine any daughter already knows that their self esteem originates mostly from their relationship with their mother though maybe not in a scholarly way as laid out in this book in nearly 200 pages. Maybe someone who is new to these issues would appreciate this book more. The concepts are solid, but it lacks solutions and there is just a lot of padding. less

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