Has anyone read any of those 'Raising Girl' type books?

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I have two daughters and we're not having anymore children. Has anyone read any child gender specific child development books and would you recommend them?

I read one called Raising Daughters and was pretty disappointed tbh. It was an Australian book and though most of it "translated", some of it obviously didn't. Also, it was mostly about teenage daughters, which I suppose could have been useful if I had teens but they are only 8 and 7 (and this age group was more or less dismissed in a paragraph!). Can't remember who it was by but I wouldn't reccommend it.

I read some of Raising Boys and was again disapointed. It was like a magazine article.

"It was like a magazine article" - as in, insubstantial? I wonder if it was by the same people cupcakes.

Yep - this is the one I read - read the readers comments below - I agree with them!

Raising Boys isn't that great, at least not compared with the Secrets of Happy Children (by the same people). It is insubstantial, as if they've churned it out to make bucks whereas TSoHC seems much better thought-through.

Raising Boys goes from tiny boys up to teens and has some interesting stuff in it about older teenage boys needing mentors outside the immediate family etc, but also a load of toss like taking your son out for a "rite of passage" meal at the start of their teens where you and you DH chat lightheartedly to him about sex. Gross.

Not that that answers your question Beatie! Love the xmas name btw .

I read Raising Daughters and was gobsmacked at how awful it was, to be honest. I very much agree with the second review on the link.

Visualisation exercises for three year olds didn't float my boat and certainly wouldn't float dd's, and at one point they suggest that the most important thing you can do for your dd's welfare and self-esteem is ... wait gor it ...

buy her a horse.

It was about as much use as a chocolate tea-pot.

"but also a load of toss like taking your son out for a "rite of passage" meal at the start of their teens where you and you DH chat lightheartedly to him about sex."

Oh goodness!!

A HORSE?!? Yikes. We're doomed then.