Product Description

THE TRUTH is a delightful, humorous secret diary, written by a girl who is 11-12 years of age. She is wise and yet innocent. Her words acknowledge those priceless truths that we all knew as kids. She makes us cry and laugh and see ourselves. Everybody loves reading her thoughts, secrets, adventures and solutions to difficult problems. Girls are naturally curious and this book gives them a real opportunity to see how a girl like themselves in so many ways handles her toughest problems and most personal thoughts. Mom can read the book along with her daughter and not only be brought back to herself as a youngster, but find on every page relevant topics for discussion with her daughter. How do you handle a bully? How do you handle a crush on a boy? What about teasing? How do you find time to listen to your daughter? Do we have enough fun together? What really matters? There is space right within the book for the girl and or mom to make notes or her own diary entries. The book ends with discussion ideas that can also open up whole new areas of topics for mom and daughter or the young reader and other members of her family, friends, or teachers. Behind this very easy read, written by a positive psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience, is the psychological message to the girls reading THE TRUTH that they can and must keep the fire and passion of their girlhoods as they grow up and have the courage to carry the most precious parts of themselves into adulthood.. For parents the book is a way back to what made them feel most special at 10, 11 or 12. Once parents are back in the place where their kids live, then listening, trust and real sharing can begin. Every girl and ever parent wants this kind of TRUTH!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37812 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .29" h x 5.79" w x 7.11" l, .27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
A very slim, diary-like book, The Truth (I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything) is the sort of book that appeals to girls and grown women alike. It is sweet and somewhat sadly nostalgic. Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein lays out this story in the form of a young girl s diary, with all the high emotions, fears and joys of that time of life. It brings us back to remembering small happinesses, allowing them to make us glow - instead of steeping the all-importance of bills, chores and work. This is a very different kind of self-help book. Each page is dated and begins with the expected Dear Diary.... Each page offers an insight or a note of something to remember for when she is an adult. The Girl, whose life we get to peek in on, begins with an entry on September 20th, after a foreword scratched into the first page of the book: ....This is the real truth. This is where I will write everything I don t want to forget, starting tomorrow! She writes her fears about growing up, the physical and emotional realities she faces. She writes of her confusion and pain as her parents fight. She writes about her first crush, of being in love for the first time with a boy named Paul, whose name is doodled in her diary in a little heart. It is an almost daily commentary in a painfully familiar and immature voice about the things that we, as adults, have forgotten really do matter. Right from the beginning are big truths that can bottom out an adult heart. The sincerity and simple reality of the statements cannot be ignored. I hate my mother sometimes. I finally asked her how I will know when I need a bra? She just walked back into the kitchen saying, 'You re too young. You should be out playing or doing chores.' I shouldn t have bothered. It seems that too often the important questions of life are brushed off for any number of reasons. Reading the frustrations of this one girl, we can be reminded that regardless of the answers, the questioners deserve attention and respect. Simpler truths are laid out as well: The truth is people shouldn t make fun of you. It really hurts. and If you feel pretty, then you look pretty. These are little things in life that can have a profound effect on how we live on a daily basis, and big things we can teach to encourage our girls as they grow from child to woman. The sheer veracity and real importance of the youthful feelings in The Truth cannot be denied. It should be woven into every girl s world, whether she is just beginning in life or being reminded when she is much older. From personal experience, it is also a wonderful book for mothers and daughters to share. --Carolynn Evans-2008 for curled up with a good kids book

About the Author
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein is the originator of The Enchanted Self. She has been a positive psychologist in private practice and licensed in the states of New Jersey and Massachusetts since 1981. Dr. Barbara speaks regularly on radio programs around the country, and appears on television in New York and New Jersey. Her inspiring audio shows and podcasts can be found on her website. Her show Happiness, For Women Only is drawing thousands of listeners each week. She is in private practice in Long Branch, New Jersey with her husband, Dr. Russell M. Holstein.