RECOMMENDED READINGAdvice books, like parents, are never ever perfect. Some are overbearing, some keep repeating the obvious, and some mean well but just don't get it. Here is an imperfect list that highlights books I happen to have found reassuring, informative, inspiring, and in a few cases, even funny. At the end are my own books, written for girls themselves.
SOME BOOKS FOR PARENTS OF GIRLS
Stressed-out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure by Roni
Cohen-Sandler (Viking, 2005)
When We're In Public, Pretend You Don't Know Me by Susan Borowitz
(Warner, 2003)
Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman (Three Rivers Press 2003)
Beyond the Big Talk by Debra W. Haffner (Newmarket Press, 2002)
Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?
Anthony Wolf (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002)
Teenagers Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte and Rachel
Harris (Workman, 2002)
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel, (Penguin, 2001)
I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You! by Roni Cohen-Sandler and Michelle Silver
(Penguin, 2000)
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (HarperResource, 1999)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager by Kate Kelly
(Alpha Books, 1998)
The Mother Dance by Harriet Lerner (HarperPerennial, 1998)
The Roller Coaster Years by Charlene Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese
(Broadway Books, 1997)
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher (Ballantine, 1994)
SOME OF MY BOOKS FOR GIRLS
Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You by Carol Weston
(Quill/HarperCollins, Fourth Edition, 2004)
For Girls Only: Wise Words, Good Advice by Carol Weston
(HarperTrophy, 2004)
Private and Personal: Questions and Answers for Girls Only by Carol
Weston (HarperTrophy, 2000)
Melanie in Manhattan (Knopf, 2005)
With Love From Spain, Melanie Martin (Knopf, 2003)
The Diary of Melanie Martin" (Knopf, 2000)
"Carol Weston gets girls" Parenting
Website: carolweston.com
"Teen Dear Abby" Newsweek
"Dear Carol" columnist in Girls' Life