Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence

â€œMy daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand her and she wonâ€™t tell me anything. How can I find out whatâ€™s going on?â€

â€œThereâ€™s a clique in my daughterâ€™s grade thatâ€™s making her life miserable. She doesnâ€™t want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and sheâ€™s too afraid to do anything. What can I do?â€

Welcome to the wonderful world of your daughterâ€™s adolescence. A world in which she comes to school one day to find that her friends have suddenly decided that she no longer belongs. Or sheâ€™s teased mercilessly for wearing the wrong outfit or having the wrong friend. Or branded with a reputation she canâ€™t shake. Or pressured into conforming so she wonâ€™t be kicked out of the group. For better or worse, your daughterâ€™s friendships are the key to enduring adolescenceâ€”as well as the biggest threat to her well-being.

In her groundbreaking book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Empower cofounder Rosalind Wiseman takes you inside the secret world of girlsâ€™ friendships. Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves. In this candid, insightful book, she dissects each role in the clique: Queen Bees, Wannabes, Messengers, Bankers, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and more. She discusses girlsâ€™ power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating arrangements and illicit parties. She takes readers into â€œGirl Worldâ€ to analyze teasing, gossip, and reputations; beauty and fashion; alcohol and drugs; boys and sex; and more, and how cliques play a role in every situation.

Each chapter includes â€œCheck Your Baggageâ€ sections to help you identify how your own background and biases affect how you see your daughter. â€œWhat You Can Do to Helpâ€ sections offer extensive sample scripts, bulleted lists, and other easy-to-use advice to get you inside your daughterâ€™s world and help you
help her.

Itâ€™s not just about helping your daughter make it alive out of junior high. This book will help you understand how your daughterâ€™s relationship with friends and cliques sets the stage for other intimate relationships as she grows and guides her when she has tougher choices to make about intimacy, drinking and drugs, and other hazards. With its revealing look into the secret world of teenage girls and cliques, enlivened with the voices of dozens of girls and a much-needed sense of humor, Queen Bees and Wannabes will equip you with all the tools you need to build the right foundation to help your daughter make smarter choices and empower her during this baffling, tumultuous time of life.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2002-04-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780609609453

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence

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Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2002-04-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780609609453