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Drama Years : Real Girls Talk about Surviving Middle School -- Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and...

by: Haley Kilpatrick; Whitney Joiner

ISBN: 9781451627916 | 1451627912

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. Date: 4/3/2012

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

An urgently needed and insightful guidebook for parents and teachers struggling to help girls navigate the often-difficult transition into adolescence by the founder of Girl Talk.It has never been easy to be a middle school girl. In the few short years between grade school and high school, girls go through an incredible number of physical and mental changes, making this the most formativeand precarioustime in their lives. Groups form and turn on each other; classmates whisper about who’s saying what to whom; childhood friends tell trusted sec... MORErets; and just deciding where to sit in the lunchroom can be a daily struggle. Then there’s the biological wave of changesall the growth spurts, new curves, and new hormonesand suddenly, there are more grown-up things to worry about like dealing with guys and sexuality. All the while, they’re constantly bombarded by contradictory and confusing messages from society and the medianot to mention the world of video chat, texting, Facebook, and Twitter. In 2002, when she was only fifteen, Haley Kilpatrick created Girl Talk, a nonprofit organization of more than 35,000 members dedicated to helping girls deal with these issues. The Drama Years is packed with the voices of tweens, who share their experiences, anecdotes, and advice on everything from stress to body image to getting along with parents. This is a survival guide written from the trenches, packed with real life examples and practical strategies, to help parents and daughters survive The Drama Years.

TODAY�S MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS HAVE IT ROUGH.

In a few short years, they go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making this the most formative�and riskiest�time in their lives. Groups turn on each other, a trusted childhood friend can reveal secrets by sending a text message or updating a Facebook status, and deciding where to sit in the cafeteria can be a daily struggle. As any tween will tell you, life for a middle school girl can be summed up in one word: drama.

Haley Kilpatrick�s own turbulent middle school experience inspired Girl Talk, a nonprofit organization in which high school mentors offer a �just been there� perspective to tween girls, helping them build self-esteem and develop leadership skills. Here, Haley delivers the definitive guidebook, packed with anecdotes from real girls around the country, who offer their insight into:

Why her friends� approval is suddenly vitally important

Why she feels pressured to be perfect

�Why she�s no longer telling her parents everything

What three vital things adults can offer to the girls in their lives to downplay the drama

Filled with practical strategies from tweens and teen mentors to help adults understand what girls today are facing, The Drama Years is a must-read for anyone struggling to help girls navigate the often difficult transition into adolescence.

Introduction	p. 1
Staying True to Her: Self-Esteem, Self-Awareness, and Self-Respect	p. 15
I'm So Stressed!: Handling Everyday Anxiety	p. 37
Who Has What: Name Brands, Materialism, and Competition	p. 61
Her Body, Herself: Body Image, Weight, and the Pressure to Be Pretty	p. 89
BFF's, Frenemies, and Mean Girls: What It Means to Be a Friend	p. 121
"It's Not Just Cooties Anymore": Love... MORE and Relationships	p. 157
Dealing with You: Getting Along with Parents	p. 183
It's Not Fair!: Boundaries and Consequences	p. 209
Getting Serious: When the Drama Is Very Real	p. 233
Afterword	p. 253
Sources	p. 255
Resources	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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Haley Kilpatrick has been named one of Glamour's "20 Young Women Changing the World Now," The Huffington Post's "Greatest Woman of the Day," Self magazine's "Women Doing Good," and People's "All-Star Among Us," among many other honors. She has been featured on NBC's Today show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, HLN, and ABC. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Whitney Joiner, a journalist based in Marfa, Texas, is a former features editor at Seventeen. She writes about issues related to young girls and women for a variety of publications, including ELLE, Glamour, Marie Claire, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, and Whole Living.

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