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You Don't Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight and How Both Can Win Book

You Don't Really Know Me seeks to answer the question as to what teenage girls really want from their mothers? Psychologist Terri Apter offers uncommon wisdom about the "tricky equation" between a daughter's identity and that of her mother. Challenging the idea that girls want to reject dear old mom, Apter suggests that most battles between mothers and daughters are fought to transform the relationship rather than trash it. Arguments become a daughter's way of asking two essential questions: "How can I get my mother to see me the way I am or the way I want to be?" and "How can I keep this important relationship up to date and useful to me?" By focusing on how daughters can remain attached to their mothers as they grow, each chapter underlines conflict as means for a daughter to define herself. Apter avoids generalities and targets smart specifics with examples, strategies and sample conversations. She offers an anatomy of a mother-daughter meltdown, establishes four patterns of teen lying and offers guidelines for dialogue about rules and risk assessment. She explains how to navigate food fights, discouraging words, harsh hyperbole ("you are ruining my life!") and the "I know that already" sex talk. Battle-fatigued mothers--and the daughters who want to love them without leaving them--will welcome Apter's hopeful, insightful approach. --Barbara Mackoff, Amazon.comRead More

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  • Amazon

    Understand what your teenage daughter really means - and learn to use your arguments to strengthen your bond with her.

  • Blackwell

    Through case studies and conversations between mothers and daughters, Terri Apter shows mothers how to interpret the meanings behind a daughter's angry words and how to emerge from arguments with a new closeness. Mothers and teenage daughters...

  • 0393327108
  • 9780393327106
  • T Apter
  • 2 August 2005
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New edition
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