Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along--but men have always had the help of ...a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll--on women, on men, and on our children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A girl in the middle years also becomes more centered in her soul-life, the feelings of her heart, and she needs our guidance to l...earn to express her uniqueness, those small seeds that will someday sprout into gifts, talents, and resources.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care in... ways appropriate to her age, her desires, and her needs; she then acts with authenticity. She must be allowed the freedom not to care; she then has access to a wide range of feelings and is able to care more fully.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because relationships are a primary source of self-esteem for girls and women, daughters need to know they will not lose our love ...if they speak up for what they want to tell us how they feel about things. . . . Teaching girls to make specific requests, rather than being indirect and agreeable, will help them avoid the pitfalls of having to be manipulative and calculating to get what they want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From infancy, a growing girl creates a tapestry of ever-deepening and ever- enlarging relationships, with her self at the center. .... . . The feminine personality comes to define itself within relationship and connection, where growth includes greater and greater complexities of interaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge t...o call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a balanced combination of the two principal energies from mother and father, a girl can both be in touch with her womanly str...engths and be a powerful force in the world--strong and nurturing, decisive and caring, goal- oriented and aware of the needs of others. She has the courage to voice what she thinks and feels and the strength to follow her destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of ad...olescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissib...le to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding of... human behavior. If we know men, then we know all of humankind. These prevalent cultural attitudes totally deny the uniqueness of the female experience, limiting the development of girls and women and depriving a needy world of the gifts, talents, and resources our daughters have to offer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »