Queen Bees and Wannabes
by Rosalind Wiseman · first published 2002
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"My daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand her and she won't tell me anything. How can I find out what's going on?""There's a clique in my daughter's grade that's making her life miserable. She doesn't want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and she's too afraid to do anything. What can I do?"Welcome to the wonderful world of your daughter's adolescence. A world in which she comes to school one day to find that her friends have suddenly decided that she no longer belongs. Or she's teased mercilessly for wearing the wrong outfit or having the
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> The movie Mean Girls could have been a documentary. Mean Girls was actually based on a book on helping your teenage daughter survive bullying in school ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Bees_and_Wannabes )...
on “I code like a girl” ↗…How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Fulcher, J. (2015). Capitalism: A very short introduction (Vol. 108). Oxford University Press, USA. Wiseman, R. (2016). Queen bees and wannabes: Helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boys, and the new realities of girl world. Harmony. Any recommendations are appreciated. =)
on “Ask HN: Book Recommendations?” ↗But it was based on a non-fiction book, “Queen Bees and Wannabes”.
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