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Title: Girl Wars : 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying by Cheryl Dellasega, Charisse Nixon ISBN: 0-7432-4987-9 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally Advice for Dads
Comment: As the dad of a teen girl who has gone through a lot of bullying I was nodding my head at the stories. Then I got to the chapter on Dads and Daughters and thought "At last!" This is the first concrete advice I've found on how to help my daughter. It's great to recognize that fathers play an important role too. One of my daughter's teachers read this, and is going to start a program at her school to stop relational aggression, so even more girls will benefit.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful and inspiring!
Comment: This book on female bullying is an absolutely wonderful. "Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart." That's what female bullying would hurt girls deeply. This book is worth reading and there are some great take-home points. I really enjoyed the book and found it helpful. Only if I read it earlier!
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I picked this up after reading Rachel Simmons' "Odd Girl Out" (which was outstanding) and wanting to know how I could take action against social aggression as a teacher. This book did not supply the answers. First, it's aimed primarily at parents, with hardly any direct recommendations to teachers (in fact, it almost takes the view that teachers are not likely to be effective allies in the battle against social aggression). Second, it espouses a number of strategies that strike me as naive and counterproductive. In her book, Simmons took a much savvier tack, identifying approaches that are likely to convince picked-on kids that YOU JUST DON'T GET IT AT ALL. Dellasega and Nixon seem to me to overemphasize church communities as a retreat from aggression -- this strikes me as not only naive but dangerous, since so many social aggressors cloak their meanness behind a façade of impeccable niceness, and what better way to prove how nice you are than to belong to a church group? They also endorse an activity called "the PowHer Game," which sounded to me about as bright an idea as a Jumping to Conclusions Mat; to confirm my hunch, I ran it past my sister (whose own junior-high experiences prompted her interest in "Odd Girl Out" and, by extension, mine), and she said, yep, any kid would think that was hokey beyond belief, and not one would put an ounce of trust in it.
Somewhere, either in print or in someone's mind, there is a book that can help parents, teachers and kids resist social aggression effectively. I don't think this one is it.
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Title: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons ISBN: 0156027348 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Cliques, Phonies, & Other Baloney by Trevor Romain ISBN: 1575420457 Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman ISBN: 1400047927 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors by John H. Hoover, Ronald Oliver ISBN: 1879639440 Publisher: Natl Educational Service Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies: A Book That Takes the Nuisance Out of Name Calling and Other Nonsense by Kate Cohen-Posey, Betsy A. Lampe ISBN: 1568250290 Publisher: Rainbow Books, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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