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Summary: Interesting Stories
Review: This book was a good read. It shed some light on a subject that I really don't know much about. It was easy to read and interesting. Mary Bray Pipher, I thought, wrote too much about her own experience and that of her patients and not enough about what she thought the solutions and problems were specifically. Nevertheless, I would highly suggest this book and I enjoyed it.
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Summary: should be required reading
Review: This is a wonderfully insightful book, and should be required reading for all parents. It's so hard being a teenager-- this book will lend some help and understanding.
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Summary: great book
Review: This book was one of the most amazing books i have ever read. It is an amazingly real look into the lives on teen-age girls and has helped me to understand so much more. Not only is this book good for people interested it is good for anybody with a daughter or anybody who interacts with teen age girls. I highly reccomnd this book.
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Summary: Saving my daughters life
Review: This book was one of the best books that I have ever read in my life. I thought that I would give it to my daughter who had seemed to be having some of the same problems that the book had described about adolescent girls. This book was so insightful and amazing that I have continued to read it over and over again. I am so thankful that a book all about teenage girls problems has come out and will hopefully help them a little.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This was the first women's studies/women's issue book that I read and it got me hooked on reading more. This book covers everything from body image to divorce to homosexuality in young girls. It is truly a remarkable book. Any girl or women that reads this can surely find something within this book to relate to. I learned so much about myself while reading this. It is one book that I will definately be reading again.
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Summary: Girls'High School Basketball Coach/AD
Review: Mary Pipher has brilliantly documented the typical American adolescent female experience. Her sensitivity, insight and love of adolescent girls is evident in the case studies that accompany topics such as family relations, sexuality, peer abuse, societal pressures,trash media values, anorexia, bulimia, etc. This book has sparked controversy among some because it portrays the adolescent female experience as one which is always wrought with pain and turmoil. This is not intentional. It just so happens that Mary works as a therapist with a population of unhealthy girls. She doesn't see too much of the healthy ones. They don't need her. In spite of this, she does tell some great stories of exceptional girls/young women who showed great courage and inner strength in the face of adversity. As a former psychotherapist who now teaches and coaches high school girls and young girls in basketball, I found the book immensely valuable in understanding behaviors, mood swings and conflicts that I encounter with my players....behaviors that previously made absolutely no sense. Since I was not a teenage girl, it is hard to understand what is going in the mind and heart of a teenage girl when on the outside, everything is seemingly OK. Better than anyone I have ever seen, Pipher takes you deep into the mind and heart of adolescent girls and explains what is going on. Her approach to therapy is also worth noting. Whereas lots of helping professionals spend lots of time trying to label a problem, Pipher immediately attacks a problem or dilemma by focusing on positive steps toward renewal or success. It is a strategy worth noting because it gives troubled girls an immediate positive perspective. If you love working with adolescent girls as much as I do or need to better understand adolescent girls as a parent or as a professional, this is a book that will give you tremendous insight.
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Summary: lots of sad stories - no answers-no useful advice
Review: It is frightening to me that so many people find this book helpful. Anyone who found this book helpful should be seeing a therpist and not spending time with a book. The girls in these stories are not typical. You could read this book or you could watch some daytime talk show like Maury Povitch, Phil Donahue, or Jenny Jones - the information is the same. Let's give the majority of our teenage girls some credit please. I see a generation of intelligent,strong self assured women with more going for them any generation before them. Lighten-up.
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Summary: Just read it, Its good!
Review: After reading this book I have come to realize the problems others my age can have in there adolescence years. Some girls my age have very high self confidence and very high self-esteem while others just don't. The stories that Mary Phiper, a clinical physchologist who wrote this book and counseled the girls written about in it, shared are so sad and scary. I am not saying this is a morbid book and is only negative, but it makes people think. I read through it very quickly because the advice written is very good and I can relate to some of the stories. Things written about include teenage pregancy, abusive parents or boyfriends, alcoholism, bad grades, or trouble with friends. Every person has had or knows someone who has had these kinds of problems. This book really helped me realize that I have a very good life and and should be very thankful for what I have. It also helped me realize that there are so many different kinds of people in the world besides me and my friends and family. I would definently recommend this book to parents, guardians, family members, friends, or anyone who would like to learn about some typical teenage female feelings or problems.
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Summary: I am not the only one!
Review: I now realize after reading this book that I am not the only one with problems in life and mine seem so little compared to the girls written about in this book. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist, wrote this book using her patients stories. All the girls written about in this book were at one time Mary's patients. They shared there stories ranging from the positive to the negative. Some of these girls experienced things I can't even comprehend. Some of them including getting intoxicated and high each night to getting pregnant at age 13. Others including dealing with abusive parents and boyfriends, having eating disorders or being depressed. After reading it, I am so thankful for my family, good education, and financial situatuion that I am in. I would greatly recommend this book and I will hopefully be reading the sequel soon.
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Summary: Let the Cure Not be Worse than Disease
Review: The author points out problems she sees. Often her cures are as bad or worse than the disease. She longs for and explictly states she wishes to cure the situation with excessively strict parenting and sports.I don't see how this is to work. Worse yet case studies from a psychologist are often skewed because they see only the worst cases where parents have thrown up their hands. Less than strictcontrol and sports,one (male or female) needs to see them selves as a valid person. It took me to 26 or so. There are outlets such as zines (independent self-published fan/magazines) that I believe give one a better sense of self, where both girls and boys communicate their ideas and find a sense of self-worth and value. I'd advise getting a copy of "broken pencil" or doing a search on zines. When realizes there are others out there like oneslef one can accumulate a sense of self-worth. Even more important one can communicate with the authors and gain support that way. This seems a far superior method than anything proposed in reviving Ophelia proposes. Have Fun, Sends Steve chromexa@ovis.net
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