Dissappointed - Rated 
Basic parenting advice.....but strongly biased against girls.....
"Raising Boys" was such an amazing, groundbreaking book, that I had high expectations for this one....
Don't waste your money -look at
JoAnn Deak and Elizabeth Hartley Brewer..........
Very disappointing - Rated 
I like Steve Biddulph, and grabbed this book in a hurry (distracted by teething baby girl, tantrumming girl toddler and impatient 5 year old girl) without properly reading the blurb - my own fault but I thought this was the long-awaited mirror to Biddulph's Raising Boys and gratefully bought it.
Big disappointment - of course it is not by Biddulph (and I strongly feel he should not have endorsed it) and I gained very little from the book - most of it is either obvious, opinionated or waffle.
I learnt more about my three girls from Raising Boys!
Disappointed by hypocrisy - Rated
After the birth of my son, I read ¨Raising Boys¨ by Steven Biddulph and found it extremely useful. After the birth of my daughter, I was looking for a similar book focusing on girls issues and came across this book. It started out well but totally lost me after Ms Preuschoff suggested that fairytales were great for girls but Barbie was bad. Apparently, girls can learn life lessons from fairytales whereas Barbie is just harmful. At no point in the book, does the author justify her view. In my opinion, if Barbie is bad for a girl then the fairytale ¨princess¨ stories filling little girls heads with beauty and romance are not good either, especially in the commercial Disney age in which we live. Basically, I feel that I learnt nothing from this book, and only came away disappointed by the author's hypocrisy.
Well, I like it - Rated 
Ok so I am only 3 quarters through it but I did that in one flight. I am a father, I have 3 children, two of which are girls. I have found the book to be very useful so far. The fact that girls have 10 times the sensory endings in their skin as boys do, explains a lot! Yes there are some opinions but yes there is a lot of content that I found really useful, and some of which I wish I had known earlier.
Favourite quote so far, "What we occupy ourselves with every day moulds us."
Not "Raising Boys" - Rated
I read Biddulph's "Raising Boys" and it was wonderful. When I had my daughter, I thought I would read this one (endorsed by Biddulph: traitor!). This book annoyed me so much, that I actually sought out this space to vent my opinion. It is poorly written: the structure is disorganised and seems arbitrary, the paragraphs waffle, poor word choice makes it vague. The information varies from so obvious it didn't need to be stated, to so "out there" in a new-agey/feral sense that I couldn't relate, to completely off the topic, to downright insulting to boys. I got suspicious about page 6 and went to check her references. An over-reliance on Alan Pease sent the alarm bells ringing. She's supposed to be a psychologist, she could have done better than popular-psycho-babble-BS as a source. The author is opinionated. The photographs are even annoying (enjoy the one of a man sitting on the toilet pooping!) In short, I am so very disappointed that I would ask for my money back if I could!!
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