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My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743
EAN: 9780316608527
ISBN: 0316608521
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 14, 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Editorial Review:
In an inspiring and intimate memoir, the mother of a teenage girl debunks the prevailing assumption that adolescence is inevitably miserable.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - My Girl - A Teen In Training
I have had this book for about a year and needless to say, I am not even on page 100. Every time I have tried to read this book, it seems like I am reading about the authors experiences, rather than the experiences she has had with her daughter. It got so boring that I have to put it down. Every time I pick it up, I forgot what was going on in the pages before. On a recent family trip in the car, I brought this book with me, with yet again, another attempt to TRY to read it and give it yet, another ... Read More
Rating:  - Tiptoeing Around a Teen in Training
I thought this book was a waste of my reading time. I saw a review on the Today Show, and read several postive reviews as well, and it piqued my interest. What I thought may be a book about how to deal with and accept the coming changes/challenges of a mother/pre-teen daughter relationship was a book about a mother seeming to tiptoe around her daughter's emotional state. What is Sarah going to think about this, what is she going to say about that, etc.? The only reason I gave it 2 stars instead of ... Read More
Rating:  - Delightful Story of a Difficult Time
Of all the parent-child relationships the mother-daughter is the most difficult. Neither mother-son nor father-either one causes nearly as much trouble. Being a mere male, I mostly watched while my wife and daughter fought (rather unsuccessfully) to establish a changing relationship.
In this book Karen Stabiner lives through the years when her daughter is from ten to fourteen years old. Karen is pre-warned of the impending troubles and is able to counter most of them. One of her quotes is ... Read More
Rating: - Speaks to every mother and daughter
What a relief, that someone has finally thought to write about the majority of moms and girls. Karen Stabiner is tired of the bad girl stereotype and it seems most of our daughthers are too. Stabiner shows us another way to get along, based on her experience with her daughter Sarah and other moms and daughters. And she talks to researchers who feel that their findings have been misstated by the media. Some girls have genuine problems, but it's unfair to the rest to expect a disaster. Why decide to be ... Read More
Rating:  - A positive message, but oblivious to most of our realities
I very much liked the encouraging message of My Girl. It was great to read about a positive mother/daughter relationship, and a pre-teen going into being a teenager without all the horrible issues the media would have us believe are rampart. Sarah sounds like a very sweet girl, and Karen Stabiner a devoted and caring mother.
That said, I must admit that the book bothered me in several ways. One is an issue that I have with many parenting books and narratives. Although the author wants to ... Read More
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