Queen Bees and Wanna-bees

If you've ever dealt with the social swamp of teen and adolescent girls, you know that it can be mind-bogglingly cruel.  Queen Bees and WannaBees. Those on the inside and those on the outside.  Forewarned is forearmed.  If you deal with adolescent girls run, don't walk, to the nearest library or bookstore. Find The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss [copyright 2000, Dial Books for Young Readers.. a division of Penguin Books]. 

The Girls opens with one member of a girl's clique discovering that she is suddenly out of favor and is being shut out by the group. Loyalties and friendships are tested as each girl decides what to do. The book is a quick read with short chapters, each from a different girl's viewpoint. Read it.  Have your daughter read it. Read it together.  Anything that will let you open a conversation about social circles, cliques, and loyalties. By discussing the choices that each girl makes, your child can safely talk about those choices without feeling that you are personally confronting or questioning her life. Ask her if any of the girls in the book remind her of girls in her school.  [No names required!] 

Check The Girls out and get a realistic view of the social jungle your daughters' social jungle.  It makes Survivor look like  Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.