Strong self esteem is vital for a child to be happy and successful. But how can you help your daughter develop hers?
Q. My daughter lacks self-confidence. What can I do to help? She always sees herself as being ‘not good enough’ and feels insignificant at school. Her school report reflects this greatly. How do you build a da...
Six out of ten girls think they would be happier if they were thinner and 81% of women strongly agree that “the media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that most women can never achieve”. It is in...
School refusal, or phobia, is sometimes confused with truancy. However, this is not a situation where the child ‘bunks off’ school to go shopping, or hang about the town centre. Imagine a child who simply refuses to ...
Q. My 14 year old daughter has a small group of friends at school which seems to work well most of the time. However my daughter is painfully shy and will not get involved in school clubs or any activities outside school...
Vicky Tuck, Principal of Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Daily Telegraph columnist writes: In a world of uncertainties, one thing that is guaranteed is that I shall never enter the Big Brother household. Of course, an i...
Read other families experiences of raising and educating girls. How did they research, debate and decide on the best school for their daughters? Was it the right choice for their daughter and how do they know? Read the real-life stories…
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