Book Review

Passages Into Womanhood: Empowering Girls to Love Themselves
by Pam Chubbuck
Review by By Phyllis K. Stein, Ph.D.

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Although there is a plethora of books about parenting babies and small children, and even about parenting teenagers, much less has been written about our role as parents in the transition that our daughters make from girlhood to womanhood. Few of us are consciously aware of the many decisions that our daughters and granddaughters will make during this time, about their bodies, about being a woman, about menstruation and even about their sexuality.

Despite our commitment to being positive role models, to providing the best nourishment to our children and a natural style of parenting, we have had little guidance about how to apply this to our adolescent daughters. Pam Chubbuck's wonderful book "Passages into Womanhood: Empowering Girls to Love Themselves" provides this guidance for both mothers and fathers and well as for other mentors of young girls.

Pam Chubbuck is a psychotherapist and wise woman who has been involved in helping women and girls live in the beauty of their true selves for over 40 years. This very loving book had its origin in her doctoral thesis where she first expressed a new paradigm for celebrating menarche. The book provides a blue print that teaches parents and others how to provide the emotional and spiritual nourishment girls need to help them feel good about themselves at this crucial time in their lives.

The structure of the book is a combination of chapters written for parents and enlightened stories that girls can read and share with their parents and other mentors. It integrates Pam's deep knowledge of biology, psychology and spirituality. Its healing touch will be felt not only in terms of our relationships with the girls in our lives, but for many people, by the girls we once were.

I recommend this book for anyone who is open to changing their perception of what it means to be a woman and to the potential for celebrating womanhood, whether there is a young girl in their lives or not.

You can order Passages Into Womanhood: Empowering Girls to Love Themselves at www.passagesintowomanhood.com.

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