Teen Girl's Handbook Quotes

“positive friendships can help us cope with difficult circumstances and reduce our overall stress.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“For teen girls, good friends are a source of support that can offset negative experiences such as bullying and feelings of isolation or exclusion.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“Friendships are very important at all stages of life, but especially during the teenage years. Friends not only allow for social connections, fun, and experiences outside the immediate family, but they influence our overall health and well-being in many positive ways. However, friendships can also be incredibly complex and challenging during this teenage period, which is why it’s helpful to understand good strategies to make meaningful friendships and maintain healthy relationships with friends.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“The teen years are a perfect time to find your passions and what is important to you,”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“Make sure that you balance work and fun as much as possible, be kind and forgiving toward yourself, and reach out for support when you need it.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“insecurity: Make a list that separates measurable facts from your internal thoughts and assumptions. Keep a journal of your insecure feelings but also positive self-affirmations that include your wonderful qualities and personal achievements. Strictly limit your time online and with social media. Replace it with other activities such as reading, exercise, volunteering, music, learning something new, or other things you enjoy. Practice gratitude every day for nature, health, family, friends, abilities, freedoms, and more. Remind yourself to be happy for the successes and achievements of others because they don’t diminish your own in the slightest. Embrace self-love.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“It’s important to understand, therefore, that your identity will continue to evolve throughout your teenage years. Just as you wouldn’t expect yourself to be the exact same person at 13 as you were at 10, you will be a different form of yourself at 18 than you are at 13,”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“Identity is a dynamic concept of “self” that we develop beginning in childhood, and it is constantly undergoing change.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“you’ll have a strong and hard-won foundation of learning and experience as a basis for building the rest of your life due to your teenage journey.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“by the time you reach your 20th birthday, the official end of being a teenager,”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up

“The teen years are unlike any other stage of life. Between 13 and 19 years old, girls typically navigate the transitions from middle school to high school to college and/or the start of a career, with significant physical and emotional changes, shifting dynamics in relationships, and expanding personal values and worldviews.”
― Karen Harris, Teen Girl's Handbook: From Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, Overcoming Insecurities, Planning for the Future, and Everything Else Along the Way to Growing Up