Her Next Chapter: How Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Navigate Malicious Media, Risky Relationships, Girl Gossip, and So Much More by Lori Day and Charlotte Kugler– 272 pages
Book Blurb:
Mother-daughter book clubs are a great way to encourage reading, bonding, and socializing among mothers, daughters, and their friends. But these clubs can do more than that, suggests educational psychologist and parenting coach Lori Day. They can create a safe and empowering haven where girls can freely discuss and navigate issues surrounding girlhood. In Her Next Chapter, Day draws from experiences in her own club and her expertise as an educator to offer a timely and inspiring take on mother-daughter book clubs. She provides overviews of eight of the biggest challenges facing girls today, such as negative body image, bullying, gender stereotypes, media sexualization, unhealthy relationships, and more, while weaving in carefully chosen book, movie, and media recommendations; thoughtful discussion questions; and group activities and outings that extend and enrich conversations and make clubs fun. Her Next Chapter outlines how mothers can use the magic of books to build girls’ confidence and sense of possibility as leaders, allies, and agents of change. A list of further resources and reflections and observations from Day’s now-adult daughter, Charlotte, round out this indispensible resource for anyone who cares about, teaches, or works with girls.
My Review:
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Thank you Lori Day for sending me this amazing book in exchange for an honest review. I read very few non-fiction parenting, self-help or empowerment books for Good Book Fairy, but one about book clubs could not be resisted!! Moms, aunts, guardians and grandmas…grab those 7-9 year old girls now and start a book club with them! Of course, as Lori deftly explains, there is beauty and bounty in sharing a book with someone, especially one you’re raising and instilling good and moral values in. However, beyond the reading of the books, it’s the time spent with one another, the importance of listening to different opinions and ideas in a safe, nurturing place while broadening each other’s horizons socially and emotionally. She covers topics such as gender bias, body image, mean girls, cyber-bullying, healthy friendships and girls as leaders through her excellent book suggestions. She offers discussion questions for many of the books and will guide any mom to be an excellent mother/daughter book club facilitator.
Quotes I Liked:
Mother-daughter book clubs provide girl-friendly smaller villages, and in some ways they are emotionally safer than school and sometimes even home.”
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