Discovery Girls Fab Girls Guides – Review and Giveaway
From sticky situations to frenemies, the tween years are paved with drama as our children navigate their way from clutching onto our pants leg to spreading their wings and flying through the teen years. The team behind the fabulous Discovery Girls magazine and web site have published a series of books that help girls navigate the tween and teen drama in a fun, frank and age appropriate style. The books give girls an insight into daily situations in a way that makes them feel like they are not alone and helps to keep the parent-child line of communication open.
Fab Girls Guide to Friendship Hardship – Frenemies anyone? This book breaks down the solutions to friendship problems step-by-step, helping girls identify poisonous friendships and showing her how to be the best friend she can be. My daughter and I have used this book a lot as a reference for some of the classroom issues she is dealing with this year. She seems to be caught between two friends who don’t really like each other and she doesn’t always know how to deal with it.
Fab Girls Guide to Sticky Situations – My daughter has read this book cover to cover countless times already! What do you do when your deepest secret is blabbed to the entire school? Or when you tell your crush you like him and he doesn’t like you back? Commonsense and compassionate advice for every sticky situation is given through out this book.
Fab Girls Guide to Getting Through Tough Times – True stories written by girls about their most private struggles—being betrayed by a friend, dealing with their parents’ divorce, a death in the family. The Discovery Girls team do such a great job presenting these tough topics to girls in an easy to relate to way. As much as we hate to see them have to deal with tough topics, it’s part of life and equipped with the right tools and right attitude, girls can emerge even stronger.
Fab Girls Guide to Getting Your Questions Answered – In this collection of real letters to Discovery Girls’ advice columnist, girls find answers to their most troubling questions about everything from family to friendship to school to boys and more.
If you have a tween or middle school age daughter, you really need to check out this series. They are great for conversation starters, helping girls get through the daily drama and laughing about it as they go. The books are $9.95 each or $29.95 for all four, plus shipping and handling. They may be ordered at DiscoveryGirls.com.
BONUS: You can win the complete set of Fab Girls Guides! Leave a comment about Middle School on this post to be entered. Was Middle School fun or traumatic for your or your child? What do you remember most about it? Got any stories of frenemies or sticky situations you’d like to share?
The giveaway will be open until midnight December 18, 2007.
I really didn’t enjoy middle school. In my opinion it’s one of the toughest stages of life.
Winning books would be great.
My child would love these!
want badly for great daughter. thanks
Middle school was the worst for me
Middle School was fun
My granddaughter would just love this prize. Thank you for all the great contests!
Teriffic
Middle school was pretty middle ground for me, had good times & bad times. 6th grade was hard, lots of homework, just lost all my friends from 5th grade. By 7th, I had a great group of new friends & we had tons of fun in 7th & 8th.
Middle school was horrible!!
Lovely Prize!
Middle school is rough!
Middle school is where you realize your kid is growing up and start panicking that they soon will be in High School, driving and dating .. UGH
middle school girls really need positive influences. these books are great!
Middle school was a bore for me because none of the material taught there was relevant to “real” life.
Unfortunately, I did not go to middle school, since I attended a K-8 catholic school. Maybe after reading these books, I will get a better understanding of what my daughter is facing.
Nice contest!
I would love to give this to my niece.
Thanks for the contest!!
I remember having a good time in middle school and am glad to see that my great niece is enjoying it also. She has recently moved to a different state and has adjusted well (thank goodness).
I would like to think that middle school was good to me..but reality I hardly remember it:)
Great gifts for the nieces.
My daughter would love these books.
I remember middle school as being a nightmare, I had just moved to the school, didn’t know anyone, and was dirt poor. I was tormented and picked on, and made fun of every step of the way, every day, for the whole first year. Luckily, I made things easier for the “poodle haired-girl” because they finally let up on her, however, she got the opportunity to fit in, by joining them in picking on me!
have a Merry CHristmas!
perfect for my preteen niece
WOW middle school is the worst. My girls will be going there in 1 yr and I am freaking out. Too many kids in the school!
Middle school was not fun for me, hopefully my daughter will have a better time!
Great thing to win! Thanks.
barely remember my middle school years
Yes, MS was so hard, not fun for me at all, either. This is such a cool prize for our daughter – thanks!
Middle school was a time of change…I remember realizing that the kids I hung out with were not the people I wanted to be associated with. Tough summer after 6th grade, as I “had no friends” due to my choice, but everything worked out for the best. Hopefully my DD will not have the same issues…DS seems to be breezing through.
Middle school is the most awkward time in anyone’s life. It’s one of the only times that you will go through so many changes all at once. It still makes me shudder to think about it.
my daughter is currently in Middle School and LOVES reading these types of books! I think they are a wonderful help to girls her age!
Middle school was one of the hardest points of my life.
By golly, wish I’d had these when I was in middle school. They will be of real assistance to my granddaughter.
great prize
I have two daughters in middle school and let me tell you, we had it easy until now. Mood swings, boys, and fashion fads are driving me crazy.
I have a 12 year old. She could use these.
My daughter could really use these! I wish they has been around when I was her age
My daughter is just entering her tween years. She is already emotional, moody, and downright nasty sometimes. Maybe reading about this will help me to understand her.
Middle school is where the people think they are adults and act like kids.
I went from Catholic school straight into middle school, and wow, what a change. Middle school was a terrible place to be for a young lady. The crude comments by ‘cool’ guys, just to get a laugh, the upper-class people being unnecessarily mean just because they were a year or two older… Silly stuff that makes me shake my head today. I never acted that way, and I sure wish other kids wouldn’t.
I loved middle school, had a harder time in high school. Would love to have these for my 13yr old DD.
If I only I could go back to those years now that I think back I know what I would change, I was a bit on the wild side!!! I would love to have these books for my daughter, sounds like they could be great advice guide for both of us! Merry Christmas!
Middle school was really bad for me! First I got a perm the day before school started. Instead of looking like the Material Girl, I had a big poofy fro that looked like a bird’s nest was build in it. Then I discovered that there were really cute guys sitting next to me in class and I was so distracted that I failed 7th grade. I could keeping going but I think you got the picture!
Middle school was rough for me because I was chubby and wore braces so I got picked on alot. Highschool was alot easier! I would love to win these book for my daughter!
Middle school is so hard, my 12 year old is a 7th grader and needs these.
i hated middle school sooo much, i smelled weird, i still do, but at least no one says anything about it, hahahha!
My daughter will be staring middle school soon, and I worry about it, of course.
Letting go is so hard.
I’m shocked to see some saying they enjoyed middle school! I’ve never known anyone who enjoyed middle school. I found it to be uber traumatic and horrid, and my daughter’s not having the easiest time of it, either.