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The "My Daughter" Website
Website for
Parents
I am delighted to let you know about a website by the
Girls' Schools Association for parents of girls, www.mydaughter.co.uk.
As a member of the GSA I am writing to recommend this site to
you. What is special about it is that it sets out to help parents
fathom out some of the mysteries of parenting a daughter! This
site also details why girls thrive at girls' only schools.
Expertise and
Experience
The site mydaughter.co.uk aims to
unlock and share the expertise and experience of the heads and
staff within girls' schools. We deal with girls day in and day out
and over the years have had thousands of girls pass through our
care.
There cannot be many issues to do with
educating or raising girls that we have not had to face in our
careers or been asked to advise parents about. Many of us are
parents, too. We think that we are particularly well placed to
offer the sort of objective, up-to-date information and advice that
parents tell us they are looking for about raising and educating
their daughters. Schools don't have all the answers, but do have an
idea of what is a normative experience and are likely to have more
experience of the exceptional.
We decided to create this new website
in response to parents' concerns, and hope that it gives you the
sort of help you are looking for.
There is no doubt that many mothers
and fathers worry about getting the balance right between
helping their daughters realise their academic potential while at
the same time enabling them to be happy and keep safe.
mydaughter.co.uk contains advice and
guidance on issues such as education choices; realising girls' full
academic potential; recognising eating disorders and signs of
bullying; development stages; relationships; social pressures;
social networking sites and internet safety, and communicating with
teenage girls.
(Please click
here to visit the School
Policy Document Library for further information on the
school ethos. (This document also includes the Anti Bullying
Policy).
The section on 'Educating your
daughter' includes tips for parents on education choices and
development stages from under 5 through to 18 plus. There are also
case studies written by parents and students, independent research
reports and a schools' directory.
The section on 'Raising your daughter'
includes advice on relationships with friends and family; social
pressures such as sexual relationships, drugs and alcohol, food and
diet, bullying and self-esteem; personal and internet safety, and
self-discovery.
Interactive
Forum
The site also offers an interactive
forum for those who register with mydaughter.co.uk.
There is provision for you to offer
feedback, comments and to pose your own questions. We would
welcome any contributions that you might wish to make to the site,
either in providing case studies, being an advocate, contributing
an article or comment and joining the forum discussions.
mydaughter.co.uk is a unique resource for
parents of girls and will develop according to your responses,
queries and contribution.
We hope you enjoy it and find it
useful.
Please click here to view the full
MyDaughter newsletter document library (PDFs)
Your Daughter Guide
Last week saw the publication by the Girls Schools Association
(GSA) of "Your Daughter", a guide for raising girls.
It contains many tips and pieces of advice from the "mydaughter" website, written by
experienced head teachers and staff from all over the UK. In
addition, there is extensive information about education, to which
St George's has contributed.
Girls' Schools Association: Your Daughter - A guide for raising
girls
If you would like to buy this guide, you may do so from here.