Queen Bees and Wannabes : Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World
Language: English
Published by Random House USA Inc, 2009
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- Title
- Queen Bees and Wannabes : Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World
- Author
- Rosalind Wiseman
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307454444
- ISBN 13
- 9780307454447
Now, Wiseman has revised and updated her groundbreaking book for a new generation of girls and explores:
How girls experiences before adolescence impact their teen years, future relationships, and overall success
The different roles girls play in and outside of cliques as Queen Bees, Targets, and Bystanders, and how this defines how they and others are treated
Girls power playsfrom fake apologies to fights over IM and text messages
Where boys fit into the equation of girl conflicts and how you can help your daughter better hold her own with the opposite sex
Checking your baggagerecognizing how your experiences impact the way you parent, and how to be sanely involved in your daughters difficult, yet common social conflicts
Packed with insights about technologys impact on Girl World and enlivened with the experiences of girls, boys, and parents, the book that inspired the hit movieMean Girls offers concrete strategies to help you empower your daughter to be socially competent and treat herself with dignity.
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About the Author
Wiseman is the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence(Crown, 2002). Twice a New York Times Bestseller, Queen Bees & Wannabeswas the basis for the 2004 movie Mean Girls. In fall 2009, an updated edition ofQueen Bees & Wannabes will be republished with a chapter on younger girls, insights on how technology has impacted kids social landscapes, and new commentary from girls and boys. Her follow-up book Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dadswas released in 2006, and she is a monthly columnist for Family Circle magazine.
Additional publications include the Owning Up Curriculum, a comprehensive social justice program for grades 6-12, and a forthcoming young adult novel,Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials, in stores in January 2010.
Since founding the Empower Program, a national violence-prevention program, in 1992, Wiseman has gone on to work with tens of thousands of students, educators, parents, counselors, coaches, and administrators to create communities based on the belief that each person has a responsibility to treat themselves and others with dignity. Audiences have included the American School Counselors Association, Capital One, National Education Association, Girl Scouts, Neutrogena, Young Presidents Association, Independent School Associations and the International Chiefs of Police, as well as countless schools throughout the U.S. and abroad.
National media regularly depends on Wiseman as the expert on ethical leadership, media literacy, bullying prevention, and school violence. She is a frequent guest on the Today Show and been profiled inThe New York Times, People, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, USA Today, Oprah, Nightline, CNN, GoodMorning America, and National Public Radio affiliates throughout the country.
Wiseman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Occidental College. She lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and two sons.
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