Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman
by Jeanne Elium, Don Elium
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Author: Don Elium, Jeanne EliumEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-13
ISBN: 1587611767
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Celestial Arts
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Book Review: Not very helpful at all...
Summary: 2 Stars
As the mother of three girls, I picked this up at the library with excitement. Sad to say, it was quite a disappointment.
I am not sure what generation this book is aimed at; maybe fifty years ago girls were taught to be quiet, helpless, docile, submissive, not terribly bright, and Stepford-wives-in-training, and perhaps THOSE mothers needed to be told that these are not good traits to encourage.
These days, however, the issues in OUR house have to do more with the sheer drama of having three very loquacious little ladies who feel it is their God-given duty to point out ALL areas in which they are displeased (and they are frequently displeased), and to keep rehashing things over and over and over again as they have startlingly long memories and amazing perseverence...not to mention their annoyance at having to be accountable for their actions and responsible for their own chores and personal care (since they are all quite sure that they were born Princesses of the Blood and should never have to do anything for themselves).
In short, I didn't find much in this book that offered any sort of useful tactics for dealing with MODERN, assertive, girls who have perhaps a little too much self-esteem, and who are being raised by modern moms who encourage messy play, sports, responsibility, and academic excellence. There were a few odds and ends that were interesting (such as the fact that women prefer face-to-face contact, whereas men prefer side-by-side discourse -- that must be why my husband and I communicate best on long car rides, and why my daughters have always felt it necessary to follow me around all day constantly pestering me until I stopped what I was doing, sat down on the floor, and stared adoringly at them for hours on end). And I totally agree with the author's stance on no TV and being very careful about what music children are allowed to hear.
But mostly it seemed to be an endless rant about the supposed repressiveness of our society towards women, and how much better things were back in the Paleolithic before all this pesky Judeo-Christian-Western-European-patriarchal stuff was around. I mean, did you know that PMS symptoms are a direct result of oursociety's lack of reverence for the menstrual cycle? And here I've been all these years thinking it was the bloating and backaches that made me feel cranky, when in fact I was being Denied My Womanhood. (I'm being sarcastic, for those of you slow on the uptake).
In a nutshell: if you are a normal woman raising normal kids, this is a waste of time. It might be of interest for a person time-traveling from the Fifties who needed to have her feminist consciousness raised; or perhaps for the the sort who likes to be told what a victim she is and that the reason you didn't do well in high school trigonometry is entirely Society's Fault.
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