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    Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
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    Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
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    Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
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    Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence

    Written by Rosalind Wiseman

    Narrated by Lee Adams

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    About this audiobook

    "My daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand her and she won't tell me anything. How can I find out what's going on?"

    "There's a clique in my daughter's grade that's making her life miserable. She doesn't want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and she's too afraid to do anything. What can I do?"

    Welcome to the wonderful world of your daughter's adolescence. A world in which she comes to school one day to find that her friends have suddenly decided that she no longer belongs. Or she's teased mercilessly for wearing the wrong outfit or having the wrong friend. Or branded with a reputation she can't shake. Or pressured into conforming so she won't be kicked out of the group. For better or worse, your daughter's friendships are the key to enduring adolescence-as well as the biggest threat to her well-being.

    In her groundbreaking book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Empower cofounder Rosalind Wiseman takes you inside the secret world of girls' friendships. Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves. In this candid, insightful book, she dissects each role in the clique: Queen Bees, Wannabes, Messengers, Bankers, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and more. She discusses girls' power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating arrangements and illicit parties. She takes readers into "Girl World" to analyze teasing, gossip, and reputations; beauty and fashion; alcohol and drugs; boys and sex; and more, and how cliques play a role in every situation.

    Each chapter includes "Check Your Baggage" sections to help you identify how your own background and biases affect how you see your daughter. "What You Can Do to Help" sections offer extensive sample scripts, bulleted lists, and other easy-to-use advice to get you inside your daughter's world and help you
    help her.

    It's not just about helping your daughter make it alive out of junior high. This book will help you understand how your daughter's relationship with friends and cliques sets the stage for other intimate relationships as she grows and guides her when she has tougher choices to make about intimacy, drinking and drugs, and other hazards. With its revealing look into the secret world of teenage girls and cliques, enlivened with the voices of dozens of girls and a much-needed sense of humor, Queen Bees and Wannabes will equip you with all the tools you need to build the right foundation to help your daughter make smarter choices and empower her during this baffling, tumultuous time of life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 22, 2008
    ISBN9780449012222
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    Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
    Author

    Rosalind Wiseman

    Rosalind Wiseman is a Colorado-based speaker and bestselling author, perhaps best known FOR QUEEN BEES AND WANNABES: HELPING YOUR DAUGHTER SURVIVE CLIQUES, GOSSIP, BOYFRIENDS, AND THE NEW REALITIES OF GIRL WORLD, the basis for the hit movie and Broadway musical MEAN GIRLS. She has authored several other parenting books, including MASTERMINDS & WINGMEN: HELPING OUR BOYS COPE WITH SCHOOLYARD POWER, LOCKER-ROOM TESTS, GIRLFRIENDS, AND THE NEW RULES OF BOY WORLD; DISTANCE LEARNING PLAYBOOK FOR PARENTS: HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S ACADEMIC; EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL LEARNING IN ANY SETTING; and OWNING UP CURRICULUM. Rosalind is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, the NEW YORK TIMES, the TODAY SHOW, and other national media.

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    • 5/5
      Good book for a father looking to gain insight into the world of women: This behavior doesn't stop when females graduate from high school, so as a bonus, it gave me perspective to my wife's world too.
    • 3/5
      After reading this book, it has become perfectly clear to me...I am secretly a man. (And up until this point I thought that I was a straight 30-something woman!) Maybe it's because I have five brothers and no sisters. That probably has a lot to do with it. But Wiseman's explanations of what moms are thinking when they say certain things to other parents - well, I know I'M not thinking that, but now that I know at least some others are - I tend to take a lot of things at face value that apparently are code for something else. Reading this book is like having someone tell you that everyone is speaking a secret language when you thought they were speaking English, and here's the last few pages of a Fodor's guidebook translation sheet to get you by. On the other hand, the dad statements and thoughts in the book, while I didn't always agree with them, at least almost always made sense on their own terms. I could see how dads would arrive at their conclusions. This book made me feel inadequate as a mom, without really offering a solution. I just didn't connect with the author at all. Maybe school events really are secretly charged landmines, where everything you say means something else, and everything you or your child does is scrutinized. I have a sneaking suspicion that this isn't COMPLETELY inaccurate. But what Wiseman offers is more a guidebook view of the situation than a solution.
    • 3/5
      After reading this book, it has become perfectly clear to me...I am secretly a man. (And up until this point I thought that I was a straight 30-something woman!) Maybe it's because I have five brothers and no sisters. That probably has a lot to do with it. But Wiseman's explanations of what moms are thinking when they say certain things to other parents - well, I know I'M not thinking that, but now that I know at least some others are - I tend to take a lot of things at face value that apparently are code for something else. Reading this book is like having someone tell you that everyone is speaking a secret language when you thought they were speaking English, and here's the last few pages of a Fodor's guidebook translation sheet to get you by. On the other hand, the dad statements and thoughts in the book, while I didn't always agree with them, at least almost always made sense on their own terms. I could see how dads would arrive at their conclusions. This book made me feel inadequate as a mom, without really offering a solution. I just didn't connect with the author at all. Maybe school events really are secretly charged landmines, where everything you say means something else, and everything you or your child does is scrutinized. I have a sneaking suspicion that this isn't COMPLETELY inaccurate. But what Wiseman offers is more a guidebook view of the situation than a solution.

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    • 2/5
      Interesting and enjoyable descriptions of the "types" of moms and dads out there. However, I think Ms. Wiseman's descriptions would probably only fit very wealthy suburbs. Also, I could never imagine myself using any of her "mock conversations" to solve a problem.