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daniel1132 's review for:
She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
by Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, Sheila Wray Gregoire, Joanna Sawatsky
Highly recommend to anyone with daughters, or who works in a religious setting with teens and families. I appreciated so much about this book, the fundamental assumption that God created women and girls as "very good" and that they deserve ... all these chapter headings:
She deserves...
... to be set up for success
... a big faith
... to be heard
... to be respected
... the whole story about dating
... to be protected
... to know about her body
... to understand consent
... to exist as a person, not as a threat
... permission to be big
The book is filled with exactly the kinds of messages that I want my daughters to hear. I had checked this out from the library, but quickly bought a copy because this is the kind of book I want to have on the shelf, to encourage discussions. I love the guided question/answer discussion guides for mothers and daughters at the end of each chapter. These are really thoughtful situational questions that help discuss difficult but important topics with teens. Really helpful.
I wish there was a book just like this for teen boys! Rather than the "Every young Man's Battle" and "Every Young Woman's Battle" pairing--that the authors so devastatingly critique in this book--we need a "He Deserves Better, Too" - better than the messages evangelical boys are taught; a fragile masculinity that feels threatened by strong women; an excuses laden approach to lust and sin that blames women for being beautiful; a "boys will be boys" mentality that enables men through sexual assault and rape;
Boys also need to be heard AND to learn how to listen -- they will be BETTER off for it!
Boys also need the whole story about dating
Boys also need to understand consent (!!!)
Boys also need to not feel threatened by the women and girls in their lives.
Anyway, looking forward to that one coming out someday.
In the meantime, I'm eager to raise my girls with these principles, and adapt/translate for my boys as well.
She deserves...
... to be set up for success
... a big faith
... to be heard
... to be respected
... the whole story about dating
... to be protected
... to know about her body
... to understand consent
... to exist as a person, not as a threat
... permission to be big
The book is filled with exactly the kinds of messages that I want my daughters to hear. I had checked this out from the library, but quickly bought a copy because this is the kind of book I want to have on the shelf, to encourage discussions. I love the guided question/answer discussion guides for mothers and daughters at the end of each chapter. These are really thoughtful situational questions that help discuss difficult but important topics with teens. Really helpful.
I wish there was a book just like this for teen boys! Rather than the "Every young Man's Battle" and "Every Young Woman's Battle" pairing--that the authors so devastatingly critique in this book--we need a "He Deserves Better, Too" - better than the messages evangelical boys are taught; a fragile masculinity that feels threatened by strong women; an excuses laden approach to lust and sin that blames women for being beautiful; a "boys will be boys" mentality that enables men through sexual assault and rape;
Boys also need to be heard AND to learn how to listen -- they will be BETTER off for it!
Boys also need the whole story about dating
Boys also need to understand consent (!!!)
Boys also need to not feel threatened by the women and girls in their lives.
Anyway, looking forward to that one coming out someday.
In the meantime, I'm eager to raise my girls with these principles, and adapt/translate for my boys as well.