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THE WONDER OF GIRLS
By Michael Gurian
2002, 328 pp
$26 hardback
The author of this book, a therapist and child development educator, presents a comprehensive guide to raising girls from infancy to adulthood. His naturebased theory says that girls are the way they are because of neurobiological and biochemical components combined with cultural and societal expectations. In addition to professional research, he offers personal insights and anecdotes as a married father of two daughters.
The author discusses hormonal and emotional biology and girls' need to develop successful intimate bonds, attachments, and relationships to have a healthy journey toward adulthood. He offers parenting advice for raising girls based on his view that girls' need for intimacy is a biological function. Advice geared for infants through 11-year-old girls is presented...