Raising Girls

Friday, September 9, 2011

I'm really excited to share about this conference coming to Nashville in a few weeks! Empowered to Connect is based on the book, The Connected Child, which is a fantastic resource for parents of adopted children. If you're available and have or are considering adoption, I highly recommend it!Click here for more information!

Welcome to Raising Girls

Hi! We're excited you've found your way to Raising Girls. We want this blog to be a community for folks who God has placed in the lives of girls. Whether you're her parent, her grandparent, her teacher, or her counselor, you have something unique to offer the girl in your life. It is our hope to help you discover what that is--in many ways. We want to share with you our thoughts from sitting with girls on a daily basis in our counseling office, we want you to share your thoughts on raising girls with each other, and we'll even include a few thoughts from girls themselves.

We'll start with a little more information about who we are. Melissa is the Executive Director of Daystar Counseling Ministries. She actually began working with kids at the age of 16. Her youth group didn't have a youth director, so she volunteered to be it. Since that time, she has been a youth director at a variety of churches, a retreat leader, a Bible and English teacher, the head of spiritual life at a middle and upper school, and the founder of Daystar. Today, Melissa spends her time counseling children and adults, keeping Daystar and our summer camp running smoothly, teaching parenting classes, teaching kids, writing, reading, riding her bike, and playing with her dog Molasses.

Sissy came on the scene with Daystar a few years later. As a graduate student at Vanderbilt, she interviewed with Melissa in 1993 for a position as an intern. Knowing she wanted to work with kids in an environment that was relational and fun, but also had the opportunity to share Christ with kids in the deepest places of their hearts, Daystar was a perfect fit. And she's been there ever since. Sissy counsels girls of all ages and their families, leads adolescent girls' groups, teaches parenting classes, writes, is trying to learn how to blog, loves to spend time with her dog Noel, and watches American Idol and Lost on the side!

It is important to mention that both of the dogs are also on staff at Daystar. They are a part of our model in working with kids: soften, shape, and strengthen...which we'll save for a later blog.

So, that is who we are. Now we'd love to hear about you. Tell us who you are--who your girls are, how old they are, and we'd also be interested to know what is the main question you have as you think about raising girls.

Thanks for taking the time to join us. We look forward to being together on this journey of what it means to care for the girls God has placed in all of our lives.

Our Favorite Parenting Books

Becoming A Dad by Stephen James and David Thomas
Boundaries with Kids by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? by Anthony Wolf
How Children Raise Parents by Dan Allender
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? by Walter Wangerin
Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Parenting Adolescents by Kevin Huggins
Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman
Raising Girls by Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
The Back Door to Your Teen's Heart by Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff
The Mystery of Children by Mike Mason
The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian

Friday, September 9, 2011

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