Table of Contents

A Letter from Steve
Meet Kaycee and Genevieve

Part One The Five Stages of Girlhood
Chapter one: Creating a Total Girl
Chapter two: Right from the Start (Birth to Two Years)
Chapter three: Learning to Explore (Two to Five Years)
Chapter four: Getting Along with Others (Five to Ten Years)
Chapter five: Finding Her Soul (Ten to Fourteen Years)
Chapter six: Preparing for Adulthood (Fourteen to Eighteen Years)

Part Two Hazards and Helps: The Five Big Risk Areas and How to Navigate Them
Chapter seven: Too Sexy Too Soon
Chapter eight: Mean Girls
Chapter nine: Bodies, Weight, and Food
Chapter ten: Alcohol and Other Drugs
Chapter eleven: Girls and the Online World

Part Three Girls and Their Parents
Chapter twelve: Girls and Their Moms
Chapter thirteen: Girls and Their Dads

What Happened to Kaycee?
Postscript
Author’s Notes
Contributors and Acknowledgments
Index

About the Author

STEVE BIDDULPH is one of the world’s best-known parenting authors, with books in four million homes and thirty-one languages. He was a family psychologist for more than thirty years, and teaches at The Cairnmillar Institute in Melbourne. He lives in Tasmania, Australia.