The Little Girl Book: Everything You Need To Know To Raise A Daughter Today

by David Laskin, Kathleen O'Neill

Raising a daughter today can be more challenging and more rewarding than ever before. Parents want to encourage their daughters to take full advantage of the exciting range of new opportunities open to them in school, sports, and future careers, and at the same time acknowledge what is unique and feminine about them.

THE LITTLE GIRL BOOK is the first book to guide parents step-by-step through every period of your daughter's development from birth through the early school years. Organized chronologically, and filled with interviews with parents, teachers, and psychologists, THE LITTLE GIRL BOOK contains important research findings and practical advice on many critical concerns for parents of little girls, including:
* How to provide a non-sexist environment for your daughter
* The myths and facts about girls and aggressiveness, sociability, and intelligence
* Fostering independence and achievement without going overboard
* How to deal with battles over clothing, moodiness, separation anxiety, whining, fussing, and sibling rivalry
* Discovering Dad vs. Identifying with Mom
* Understanding how girls acquire a sense of themselves as female
* Do girls suffer more from math/science anxiety than boys?
* And more

Illuminating, informative, and thoroughly practical, THE LITTLE GIRL BOOK is a celebration of the diversity of today's little girls.

Genres: Parenting

287 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 1992

About the author

Born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, New York, I grew up hearing stories that my immigrant Jewish grandparents told about the “old country” (Russia) that they left at the turn of the last century. When I was a teenager, my mother’s parents began making yearly trips to visit our relatives in Israel, and stories about the Israeli family sifted down to me as well. What I never heard growing up was that a third branch of the family had remained behind in the old country – and that all of them perished in the Holocaust. These are three branches whose intertwined stories I tell in THE FAMILY: THREE JOURNEYS INTO THE HEART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

An avid reader for as long as I remember, I graduated from Harvard College in 1975 with a degree in history and literature and went on to New College, Oxford, where I received an MA in English in 1977. After a brief stint in book publishing, I launched my career as a freelance writer. In recent years, I have been writing suspense-driven narrative non-fiction about the lives of people caught up in events beyond their control, be it catastrophic weather, war, or genocide. My 2004 book The Children’s Blizzard, a national bestseller, won the Washington State Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and was nominated for a Quill Award. The Long Way Home (2010) also won the Washington State Book Award.

I write frequently for the New York Times Travel Section, and I have also published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Seattle Times and Seattle Metropolitan.

When I’m not writing or traveling for research, I am usually outdoors trying to tame our large unruly garden north of Seattle, romping with our unruly Labrador retriever pup Patrick, skiing in Washington State’s Cascade Mountains, or hiking in the Wallowa Mountains of northeast Oregon. My wife, Kate O’Neill, and I have raised three wonderful daughters – all grown now and embarked on fascinating lives of their own.