Surviving Ophelia

Mothers Share Their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years

Author: Cheryl Dellasega
ISBN: 9780738205083

Raising a teenage girl can be frightening and overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling (or restoring) a healthy body image and providing a strong role model, mothers often feel alone in their struggle to find ways of coping with all that they must do for their daughters. To provide the community that these women so desperately crave-and all that comes with it: the guidance, the solace, the inspiration, and the hope -Cheryl Dellasega has written Surviving Ophelia, a book of profound wisdom and compassion. Dellasega's own story of raising her teenage daughters is punctuated by the collective experience of hundreds of other mothers, from all walks of life, who have been there or are there, in the trenches, experiencing and chronicling the daily joys and trials of raising their teenage gir

Publisher: Perseus
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Parenting )