Raising girls in today’s world can seem a daunting prospect. Dangerous role models, overemphasis on appearance and designer labels, a media obsessed with sex and size…no wonder your daughter feels under pressure. Friendships are crucial to your daughter’s happiness and self-worth but girls are not always kind to each other. The internet is a valuable learning resource but can be misused as a means of bullying. And then there’s sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll…
Q. My daughter is struggling to cope with unkind, repeated low-level mean behaviour of the girls at her new school. It started with petty demands about seats on the bus but has spread more generally to include the girls ...
Q. I’m having problems with my nearly 7-year-old, who cries over everything. She is quite a perfectionist and the way she looks is very important to her, so it’s often about clothes. She asks for my help with ...
Q. My 18 year old daughter has had a facial piercing. Why? I hate it, how should I react? We have always had a close relationship which we love so I really cannot understand this. A. Like it or not facial piercings and pi...
Q. My 10 year old daughter seems to be suffering from low self esteem. What can I do to increase it and build her own self-belief? A. The key here is to praise, care and nurture your daughter. Praise her effort rather th...
Q. My daughter had a friend to stay who is a young 13 year old. She was a delightful girl, kind, beautiful but very shy, she was very slim and barely ate when she was with us and disappeared to the bathroom after every m...
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Read our experts’ replies to those questions that every parent asks. Our “agony aunts” draw on their experience as parents, teachers and Heads to offer suggestions, explanations and solutions