Commonly known as the 'Queen of Common Sense', Maggie Dent has become one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators.
In Girlhood, Dent investigates the development period for girls from birth to age eight.
Drawing on nearly 5000 survey results, the latest research and her own extensive experience as an educator, counsellor, facilitator, mum and grandmother, Dent takes readers through the process of how to help girls build an emotional and psychological base for life.
Secure foundations, she argues, will help insulate girls against anxiety and other mental health challenges as they grow into their teens and feel more capable and resilient while keeping their own authentic voice as they enter womanhood.
Written with all the rigour, compassion and humour expected from one of Australia's best-loved parenting voices, this is a deeply practical guide to raising girls, as well as a celebration and intimate meditation on the state of being female, which women of all ages will relate to.
Dent is the author of eight major books, including the bestselling 2018 release Mothering Our Boys and the 2020 release From Boys to Men. She hosts the ABC podcast, Parental As Anything, and in July 2021 released a book of the same name.
Girlhood by Maggie Dent is published by Macmillan Australia, RRP $34.99.
HOW TO ENTER
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