Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

by Lisa Damour

Accept that girls part with childhood gradually and embrace opportunities to do things for her, with her, and to stand by to admire her when she’s doing more and more for herself.

You can say, “Your body has decided that it’s time to start acting older, but that doesn’t mean that the rest of you needs to be on the same schedule. Feel free to keep doing kid stuff for as long as you’d like. It will all even out eventually.”