Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

Outline

Raising Girls Who Like Themselves (2021) presents seven qualities that can help girls develop lasting self-respect, confidence, resilience, and a healthy sense of identity. Kasey Edwards and Christopher Scanlon examine how family messages, social expectations, appearance-related pressure, education, and everyday experiences can shape a girl’s understanding of herself. The book gives parents practical ways to encourage courage, competence, emotional awareness, physical confidence, and values that do not depend entirely on outside approval.

• Girls are pressured to look perfect and please everyone, yet what they most need is to know they are enough.
• The book presents seven qualities that help girls build lasting self-respect, confidence, resilience, and a healthy sense of identity.
• Family messages, social expectations, appearance-related pressure, education, and daily experiences all shape how a girl sees herself.
• Parents get practical ways to encourage courage, competence, emotional awareness, and physical confidence in their daughters.
• Values that do not depend entirely on outside approval help girls grow into confident women who shape their own future.

Kasey Edwards and Christopher Scanlon are Australian writers, researchers, and parents who collaborate on books about children, confidence, family life, and social expectations. Edwards has written extensively about identity, work, parenting, and the pressures placed on women and girls, while Scanlon brings experience in research, writing, and education. Their parenting books combine evidence, personal experience, and practical strategies families can use in everyday situations.