Author:Ian Grant,Mary Grant
Girls have an instinctive ability for good verbal communication, nurturing and emotional intelligence, but they need a simple and strong foundation from their parents to really grow into healthy adults.
Raising Confident Girls is all about working with the essential character of girls to raise confident, communicative and successful women by showing you how to combine warmth and encouragement with routine and predictability in her life.
Ian and Mary Grant have packed Raising Confident Girls with indispensable no-nonsense advice on raising girls from the pre-school years through to the challenging teens. With chapters on the nature of girls, the roles of mums and dads, and on the special challenges faced by single parents, plus hot tips, quotes and action labs to encourage parents to take a hands-on approach, this book will help you cultivate your daughter's natural talents to help her succeed in the game of life.
A wonderfully assured writer
—— Sunday TimesJuliet, Naked is ingenious, funny and moving
—— Daily MailA comic delight. In Juliet, Naked the author once again deftly but affectionately anatomizes the foibles of flawed men and women
—— Evening StandardSharp, funny, touching . . . Nick Hornby's triumph is to find infinite amounts of warmth and humour in this seeming world of desolation
—— Daily TelegraphBurch approaches his task with vigour and pace, exploring the therapeutic failures of doctors over the ages...there is much of interest as the story unfolds
—— Irish TimesBurch leads us through an array of shocking and surprising medical practices
—— Financial TimesIntriguing and informed
—— Tom Whipple , The TimesTwenty-five essay-chapters examine 'cures' such as aspirin and thalidomide, all with a good bedside manner
—— Sunday TelegraphThis is a gripping history of the blundering progress of medicine
—— Christopher Hirst , IndependentA fascinating and irreverent history of medicine and those who've claimed to understand it, written by an NHS doctor with searing intelligence and a lively wit
—— Good Book GuideMore complex - and funny - than one would ever imagine ... It's a candid account of a woman unafraid to reveal the scared, jealous, and immature sides of herself while painting a portrait of her rollicking, fun-loving Irish Catholic parents and brothers who bolster her, and the husband who understands and loves her
—— San Francisco ChronicleCorrigan infuses her prose with vivacity and humor. She explores that process called growing up, and how it can happen in a defining moment, like a lightening strike, but also how it is illuminated in less dramatic ones, like flickers of heat lightning in a summer sky
—— BookPage