Can you protect your daughters from growing up too soon? How can you make sure they are confident about themselves? Can you combat the Lolita Effect? From every angle, our little girls are being bombarded with unhealthy messages about looks, sex and femininity, which they are simply too young to understand. Even primary school aged girls feels pressured to conform to a thin, 'sexy' ideal, and this leads to a rise in self-destructive behaviour in that age group, ranging from eating disorders and self-harming to anxiety and low self-esteem. This practical guide for parents will enable you to protect and develop your daughter's self-esteem, and to channel her towards positive female role models, toys and pastimes. Packed with tips from experts, this book will enable your daughter to cope with the world she lives in.Author BiographyTanith Carey is a parenting author and journalist who writes for a wide range of national newspapers and magazines. She started her career as a news reporter, becoming a crime correspondent on the Brighton Evening Argus before joining the Daily Mirror. After several years as a feature writer undertaking investigations, celebrity interviews and backgrounders, she joined the Features Desk, first as Woman's Editor, and then Features Editor. Soon after the birth of her first child, Tanith was awarded Consumer Journalist of the Year - and later that year moved to New York as the Mirror's US Editor, a position she held jointly with her husband Anthony Harwood. On her return to the UK in 2005, Tanith wrote her first book, the biography of Russell Brand. It was followed by A Mother's Love, a prose collection on motherhood and How to Be an Amazing Mum -

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