Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Alexandra Stoddard

Alexandra Stoddard is familiar to me. She is so like the Chic yet real, wealthy yet a bit shabby women I looked up to growing up in New England. Life isn't perfect and they understand this shouldn't be the illusion they create, but instead allow yourself to create the best with what surrounds you. Which comes out looking rather ideal, if not perfect. She is a designer by trade but has morphed into more of a lifestyle guru. This book is another in her string of lifestyle manuals, aimed at her daughters- but that is because she didn't have sons! The advice in here is not gender specific. Okay, the blurb "Learn to Style Your Own Hair" might be a little girlie, but mostly these are more gender neutral items. And, I think this book will mean different things to different ages. You can read this at 14 or at 40, and still find some good analysis for your own doings.
And, there are no sex, language or violence warnings for this book!
Give it to your daughter, or son (if he is confident enough to read a book about life choices that has the word "daughter" in the title) and let them cruise through the bits and pieces at their own pace. Maybe it is not a sit down and read all at once kind of book, more of a read a few pages and then a few tomorrow kind of book. But it is a kind book. And Moms, remember, you are all daughters too!