Don't Stop Loving Me

by Caron, Ann F.

• ISBN13: 9780060974022
• ISBN10: 0060974028
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Mothers today must raise girls in a vastly different environment than they themselevs experienced. In this practical book, Dr. Ann Caron first discusses what is happening to girls' bodies and minds in this maturating period and then raises issues that affect mothers and daughters daily: trust, dependency, sex, peers and friends, competition, alcohol and drugs, discipline, and much more.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Why Mothers and Adolescent Daughters?	1	(6)
1. "Don't embarrass me, Mother." Adolescence Begins	7	(18)
2. "I got my period." The Adolescent Body: New Feelings About a Daughter	25	(14)
3. "Don't worry, it won't happen to me." The Adolescent Mind	39	(20)
4. "Don't you trust me?" The Dilemmas of Trust	59	(22)
5. "Where's Dad?" An Influence or an Observer?	81	(18)
6. "You won't let me do anything." Mother's Limits and Daughter's Demands	99	(20)
7. "I'm too fat. Look at my thighs." A Woman's Body: Never Good Enough	119	(20)
8. "Everyone is fighting for popularity." The Importance of Friends	139	(18)
9. "But I only had half a beer." The Alcohol and Drug Scene	157	(18)
10. "Forget it, I don't want to talk about sex." The Real Generation Gap	175	(20)
11. "I like to talk with my mother." A New Appreciation of Each Other	195	(16)
12. And into adulthood The Meaning of the New Relationship	211	(4)
Notes	215	(7)
Index	222