Raising Girls: Why Girls Are Different - And How to Help Them Grow Up Happy and Confident - Gisela Preuschoff

I really didn't like this book, there's a lot of assertion backed up by nothing other than author opinion. What really riled me was this: "...more male than female foetuses are stillborn. No-one knows exactly why this is so. It is assumed that either male foetuses are more sensitive to harmful environmental factors, or the mother's immune system classifies the male foetus as foreign and tackles it, in error, as an 'enemy'. Could that also perhaps have something to do with the mother's thoughts?"

Helpful? Scientific? I don't think so. I struggled through the rest of the book but found it hard to take it seriously after that comment.

I thought this was an informative and interesting. I enjoyed the psychology part, which was easy to read and quite eye opening in some parts.

A great book with lots of common sense approaches and ideas. Has some great focus on how to give girls an advantage in areas that they may have struggled otherwise. Great section on girls and their siblings.