Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

Nearly one in five girls aged 16-17 years meet the clinical criteria for depression. One in fourteen young Australians (7%) aged 4-17 experienced an anxiety disorder. These figures only get worse as our girls age with one in three women in Australia experiencing anxiety.

This indispensable guide will provide the tools to raising a girl who is happy and confident. Because when you raise a girl who likes herself, everything else follows.

She will strive for excellence because she has faith in her ability to achieve it and the confidence to pick herself up.

She will nurture her physical and mental health because it's natural to care for something you love.

She will insist on healthy relationships because she believes she deserves nothing less.

She will be joyful and secure, knowing that her greatest friend and most capable ally is herself.

Packed with practical, evidence-based advice, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves details the seven qualities that enable girls to thrive and arm themselves against a world that tells them they are flawed. These include:

• Possessing a power perspective
• Having body confidence
• Owning her body and its autonomy
• Staying calm and optimistic
• Being independent and masterful
• Cultivating strong relationships
• Remaining true to herself

Free of parental guilt and grounded in research, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves is imbued with the warmth and wit of a mum and dad who are in the same parenting trenches as you, fighting for their daughters' futures.

Kasey Edwards:

Kasey Edwards is an author and commentator. She has written two volumes of memoir, 30-Something and Over It and 30-Something and the Clock is Ticking. She writes a column for Daily Life.

Dr Christopher Scanlon

Dr Christopher Scanlon holds a PhD in Politics from Monash University and is currently Chair, Teaching and Learning in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce at La Trobe University. He has over 10 years experience as an editor and freelance writer. Between 1999-2009 he served as both a co-editor and the online editor of the highly regarded Arena Magazine. His work has been published in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Courier-Mail, The Canberra Times, Crikey, Business Spectator, The Monthly, Overland and Arena Magazine. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife Kasey Edwards and daughters Violet and Ivy.

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