Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture

A guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages.

Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their ability to gain attention, and an ever-increasing accrual of accomplishments. With such unattainable standards, it is no wonder that many girls experience stress, self-doubt, and even mental health problems. Girls strugg...