Things will be different for my daughter : a practical guide to building her self-esteem and self-reliance / Mindy Bingham and Sandy Stryker ; with Susan Allstetter Neufeldt.

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1995.

xvi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"A Penguin original"--Page 4 of cover.

1. Self-Esteem: A Key to Unlocking Your Daughter's Future -- 2. What Attitudes, Experiences, and Feelings Do You Bring to Parenting? -- 3. Redefining Femininity -- 4. Resolving the Conflict Women Feel Between Femininity and Achievement -- 5. Forming an Identity as an Achiever -- 6. Developing a Hardy Personality -- 7. Where to Start? -- 8. Your Role -- 9. Your Plan -- 10. Infant, Toddler, Preschooler -- 11. Ages Six to Ten -- 12. Adolescent -- 13. Games Girls Play -- 14. Once Upon a Time -- 15. Lessons Learned from the Media -- 16. Lessons Learned in School -- 17. Math, Science, and Computers -- 18. Lessons Learned on the Playing Field -- 19. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall -- 20. I'm Nobody Till Somebody Loves Me -- 21. Sex and the Teenage Girl -- 22. Developing Healthy Sexual Attitudes -- 23. Getting Girls Ready for Career Education -- 24. Helping Girls Realize Their Career Potential -- 25. Strategies for Mixing Career and Family -- 26. Out into the World -- 27. Advocacy for Girls -- 28. Forming Mother-Daughter Groups -- 29. Letters of Healing, Letters of Dreams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-481) and index.