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Secrets: You Tell Me Yours and I’ll Tell You Mine…maybe!
Following on the heels of the best-selling book, The Truth, SECRETS is the continuing diary of a girl moving into her teen-age years. The Girl has plenty to fill her journal. The pages reveal a new school, a new baby in the family, new friends, a new guy and a new set of issues to face. Share the secret world of an almost-teen as she learns which secrets to share and which to keep to herself.
Download an excerpt of Secrets here.
THE TRUTH: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything!
In the mothers' and daughters' version, this girl encapsulates the spark and energy that your daughter has inside of her, and that you had inside of yourself as a girl. It is this special capacity for fun and wisdom that we need to protect in our girls and get back to ourselves!
Let's rejoice in the girl inside of ourselves. Let's give courage and affirmation to our daughters and granddaughters so they know from the inside out, it is ok, in fact, essential to keep her alive, as they grow up.
Martha Trowbridge, inspirational writer, and I discuss some of the basic issues around these formative years
I thought it would be fun to share with you some of my audio shows about kids, tweens and teens. Let’s start of with the first podcast from Kids, Tweens and Teens, A Positive Psychologist Looks at all Three! In this show, Martha Trowbridge, inspirational writer, and I discuss some of the basic issues around these formative
June 30, 2008 – Dr. Holstein and Martha Trowbridge, inspirational writer for women, discuss Happiness as it relates to girls, tween, teens and women.
A RECIPE for a Happy Child must include some very special Ingredients
You wouldn’t back a special wedding cake without a recipe. So way think you can bring up a child and have her flourish without a good recipe that really works? As a psychologist, I can say the surest RECIPE that I have found is passed on the Seven Gateways to Happiness. Here are some of the special INGREDIENTS that you will need as you help you daughter walk through the Gateways of Happiness.
The first ingredient is:
1: Lots of reinforcement for the kid’s talents, interests and potential. Without reinforcement from you, probably the most important adult in her life, she cannot validate her talents, strengths, interests and potential just on her own. Kids are developed enough emotionally or intellectually to sort through all of their feelings and reactions to their own experiences. They need the parent, grandparent, and/or teacher to help them in this sorting. The girl may enjoy a ten week course in playing the flute. But recognizing whether she loves the flute enough to now take expensive lessons maybe be something you have to help her with. Maybe she like variety and to try a lot of new things. That is just as valid an interest as a willingness and need to focus on one thing and master it.
I’ll be back with the SECOND INGREDIENT in RAISING A HAPPY CHILD soon.
Another Book Club is Reading The Truth
I’m so excited. I just sent a batch of The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) down south to a group of girls in a self-esteem group run by Amy Stachler. The girls go to various schools but the club is Club G2G and all the girls are participating in Relay for Life (cancer walk). I think that is wonderful! Amy already wrote to me that the girls were really excited with the book. I wonder how they will react as they read the book. Will they identify with the girl and her feelings? Do they ever feel that a teacher or a parent is not really listening to them? Do they promise themselves about how they will be when they grow up? Do they have crushes? How do they feel the girl handled her crush with Paul? I can’t wait to hear from them. This is so exciting.
Book club encourages parent-child discourse
When seven Manasquan mothers and their sixth-grade daughters discuss a book they’ve all been reading, the conversation is about far more than the story. They share their feelings and thoughts about the issues in the book and about life.
Encouraging such communication was a goal when founding the Manasquan Mother Daughter Book Club in 2006, says Maribeth Pelly, 42, whose daughter Zoe, 12, is a member. The club has achieved that and helped the girls become more confident when expressing themselves, she says.
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Listen to My Interview on Book Bites
Book Bites for Kids interviews me!
Description: Host Suzanne Lieurance talks with Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein about her book, The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything)
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