The Truth (I'm a girl, I'm smart and I know everything) by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

Girls throughout the world experience similar aspects of growing up. Crushes, fighting with parents and bullying are just a few categories of bewilderment and aloneness they experience. Throw in the Internet and there is a recipe for constant and unavoidable situations leaving parents unsure of how to handle these challenging aspects of a young person’s life. Leading positive psychologist Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein has written a book geared towards tween girls and their mothers as a real chance to connect. The Truth, (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything) (Enchanted Self Press, Feb. 2008) will let daughters relate and mother’s laugh.

Dr. Holstein merged her years of expertise as a classroom teacher, school psychologist, case study researcher and psychologist in private practice, and created this charming, wise and topically timely diary written by a girl. There are even discussion questions at the back of the book. She recently appeared on Daily Connections where she discussed how every girl wants a mother that listens and is aware of her behavior, especially during the tween years. Family is fun and tweens want to feel special in their family. Limiting new technology is important and Dr. Barbara can tell you how http://dailyconnections.ebru.tv/en/episodes/289.html
The Truth, currently rank #2 on Amazon for parenting tweens, is a fun diary-format paperback give girls 8-14 years old the knowledge they are not alone, it also reminds mothers what it was like to be this age. Along the likes of Judy Blume, by reading the secret world of the fictional girl’s diary, girls today can see that others feel the same way they do.

“I worry about my parents because they don’t know the truth about so many things and they still fight over stupid stuff. When will they ever grow up” from The Truth

Dr. Holstein has been featured in numerous publications, including TIME and most recently, Real Simple magazine. She has been a trailblazer in the study of positive psychology for women and girls for over 25 years. She published the path-finding treatment book The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy (1997), before the term positive psychology was even coined. Dr. Holstein continues to be in private practice with her husband Dr. Russell M. Holstein in Long Branch, NJ. She can be found at enchantedself.com and is the expert guide to positive psychology on selfgrowth.com.

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