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Raise Street-Smart Girls: 150+ Lessons Not Taught at School to Set Boundaries, Trust Their Gut, Stay Safe Online, and Grow Into a Confident Young Woman — Illustrated Edition

Joseph Hedlund

ILLUSTRATED EDITIONDoes your daughter cancel her own opinions the moment someone disagrees — apologizing for everything, even for taking up space?Does it worry you that no school or teacher will ever teach her how to trust her gut, spot a frenemy, or walk past a catcaller without freezing?You're not imagining it. The world she's growing into is faster, more filtered, and harder on girls than the one you grew up in. And between ages 9 and 12, the window to protect her voice closes faster than most parents realize."Raise Street-Smart Girls" is the guide she'll actually use to grow into the young woman you want her to become. It starts from the inside out: helping her understand her emotions first, so she can handle what happens outside.And it doesn't stop at theory. It trains her through Real-Life lessons, daily Mini-Missions, and illustrated Weekly Challenges.HERE’S WHAT YOUR DAUGHTER WILL FIND INSIDE:• Street-Safety Strategies: How to find her way home if she gets lost, ride public transport safely, and trust her gut when an adult's hug or "don't tell your parents" feels wrong.• 150 Smart Moves & Mini-Missions: One rule to remember and one action to try the same day — so the advice doesn't stay on the page.• 8 Body-Image & Filter Smarts: How to spot the filter trap, handle a classmate's body comment, and recognize content engineered to sell her insecurity.• Digital Street-Smarts: How to spot the older "friend" faking her age, the private-chat trap, and the requests that look kind but aren't.• Real Friendship & Speaking Up: How to spot the silent treatment, the "compliment with a sting", and hold her ground when the group turns on her.• Built for Girls Ages 9–12: Written for the stage when her friendships shift and the "good girl" pressure begins — with warm, big-sister advice that never feels like a lecture.• 18 Illustrated Weekly Challenges: Fill-ins, checkboxes, and quick choices that let her practice on paper before real life tests her.But that’s not all...You’ll also get a special BONUS to make the most of the book’s lessons:• A Hands-On Workbook: 15 printable activities — including word searches, sentence builders, color-code pages, safety checks, and smart-choice games — to make practice more hands-on.Worried this book will sit unread?This one was built to break that pattern. Every lesson is short, written in her voice, based on situations she recognizes, and ends with something she can do the same day.In six months, you watch her handle a moment that would have shrunk her today. She pauses. She speaks. She trusts herself. She's no longer the girl disappearing in the group — she's the one telling you what she said in class, over dinner.Or you wait, and the years you could have used to keep her from losing herself become years you can't get back.Click "Buy Now" and help her build the kind of confidence school will never teach.

GenresTeen & Young AdultPersonal HealthMaturingSocial IssuesPeer Pressure

152 pages

English edition · First published 2026 by Independently published · ISBN 9798187838141

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