Little Girls Can Be Mean: Four Steps to Bully-Proof Girls in the Early Grades

Book arrived in great condition. Good book and easy to read. It really helped us to get perspective, as well as look out for some signs in our own kids.

Personally, I think everyone should read a book like this - great alone for highlighting the issue of unintential meanness in little girls and fab tips (even if you don't completely follow the plan) of what to do if your daughter is having friendship issues, which is not uncommon!! I use tips from this book everyday with my 2 girls, even for minor friendship discussions.

This book is extremely well written. It is easy to read with very practical hands on ideas that you can use right away. I like how it presents various type of situations and how a parent, teacher and even the child can deal with what is happening. I really like how the author tries to help you see both sides (the mean girl and the girl she's being mean to). I also like how the emphasis in the book is the relationship between the parent and child and what can be done to strengthen that bond so that you can be your child's best ally in helping them deal with what is going on. This book was written about girls but you could use the same problem solving techniques in any situation no matter what the gender. Another feature that I like is that it assumes that the child may even read along with you and the book actually speaks to them and gives them ideas that they can use to help them to successfully navigate the trouble they find themselves in. I just can't say enough good things about this book.

I'm still reading this but I really find the information given so far to be very valuable as I try to navigate through the Grade 2 social structure and challenges my daughter faces daily. I can tell already that this book will be a very valuable resource as my daughter advances through elementary school and I find myself taking notes and using the suggestions daily. Based on what I've read so far (about 2/3) I would recommend this book to any parent or teacher who wants to empower and give our girls the tools they need to foster healthy relationships.

I read this book to learn more about my childhood. But I also see its relevance today as an adult decades later.Bully sessions and literature talk about how parents can help children. They never address the fact that the parent may be the bully and be very, very mean. Having a parent like this, who is also an alcoholic, is a frequent problem kids have to deal with. The parent may be battering the child emotionally, and the child feels that submission is what is demanded and feeling guilty for standing up for oneself as if it is wrong.My mother was the mean little girl, someone who bullied, manipulated and lied her way to getting what she wanted. Very confusing and painful for me, the daughter. She was not the role model I needed, that's for sure. The book helped know that standing up for myself was something a girl did that was right in examples, something I intellectually know but to see it in writing in the examples is very refreshing and supportive - only wish I had a support system when going through it as a child. The examples and lessons in the book are just as relevant today when I am an adult going through the same situations with some mean woman (and men), nasty power plays at work, etc. Some people never grew up. This really helps with how to deal with this stuff as well as knowing that going to an "adult" (supervisor) is often the right thing to do to stop bad behavior.