Pipher also gives us advice on what we, as a society, can do to make our culture more nurturing and less 'girl-poisoning' than it is. Mary Pipher gives voices to adolescent girls, who tell us their stories of being female and a teenager in America today. In Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Dr.

So, just what is so difficult about being an adolescent and being female? And what can we, parents, professionals, and citizens, do to make it better for adolescent girls? Yet all the mothers waiting there would have done anything to make it easier for their daughters than it was for them. Not one of us wanted to live through again what our daughters were living through right now. Presently, one mother broke the silence, 'You couldn't give me a million dollars to be an adolescent again!' We all laughed and nodded our heads in agreement. One mother stated, 'We never acted like that, did we?' We all fell into our own thoughts about our experiences as adolescent girls. As mothers do, we were exchanging 'war stories' about raising adolescent girls. Recently, I sat waiting with a group of mothers as our daughters finished their practice at the gym. Available from: 203 Cooke Hall, 1900 University Avenue S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 or can be downloaded from: University of Minnesota: The Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport. Physical activity and sport in the lives of girls: Physical and mental health dimensions from an interdisciplinary approach. The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the selves of adolescent girls.

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