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Instead of saying what part I agreed with the most, I would rather share with you what I learned the most about. I learned a good bit about each role that girls play. The name for each role, how each role fit into the pecking order, the up and downsides of each role, as well as learning more about each particular role was extremely informative. I had not thought about the various nuances between each role. I did not realize that there were so many roles. And I did not realize to what extent that each role fulfilled certain "valuable" needs until I read this book.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite quotes is on page 233, "......dignity is not negotiable....."
ReplyDeleteOK - I realize there may be many who disagree with me but I can't help myself - I'm a very old fashioned/old school parent! There are several statements at the beginning of the book that I highlighted because I loved them so much! Here are the quotes I agree with and love the most: p.25 "If you have a child between the ages of 5 and 12 walking around with a cell phone and it has any other capabilities beyond calling you, or 911, you have lost your mind." p.32 "Your daughter is your child. If she's not mad at you when you enforce rules, there is something wrong." p.33 "A counselor I work with advises parents that letting a seventh grader have a Facebook page is like giving a sixteen-year-old a Ferrari - it's simply too much power in the hands of someone too impulsive and inexperienced." p.56 "Adults are the ones who create and give young girls access to content that assumes they are already teens, or want to be." Our children are being exposed to way too much because too many parents have decided to be lazy and let technology be their babysitter. We must have real on-going interactions and conversations with our children if we expect to teach them right from wrong!
ReplyDeleteLove those quotes. I also like the point that was made on page 43, "Sorry, our hands are tied. It didn't happen on school property and they didn't use their school email, so we can't do anything". The author was saying to NOT have that attitude. She also made some comments about policy.
DeleteThe role that each child can play was the part that I agreed with and enjoyed the most. I really had not thought about the situations I have encountered in the fashion of which role each student was playing. It has really enlightened me when helping our girls solve their problems.
ReplyDeleteI also like the quote on page 115, "There's one thing I haven't ever gotten used to: parents believing that their child's perspective is the one and only truth."
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