Download The Drama Years: Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School -- Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More AudioBook Free

Today's middle university girls have it harsh. In those few brief years, girls go through an incredible number of biological and psychological changes, making it the most formative - and risky - time in their lives. Organizations form and start each other, years as a child friends can show you trusted secrets just by sending a text or upgrading a Facebook position, and deciding where you can stay in the cafeteria can be a daily have difficulties. As any tween will let you know, life for a middle university girl can be summed up in a single word: theatre. Haley Kilpatrick's own turbulent middle school experience influenced Girl Converse, a nonprofit group in which high school mentors offer a "just been there" perspective to tween ladies, assisting them build self-esteem and develop authority skills. Here, Haley gives the definitive guidebook for parents, professors and anyone who works with middle school ladies. Written from the trenches, The Drama Years is packed with anecdotes from real ladies around the country, who offer their understanding into:

• Why her friends' agreement is suddenly quite crucial
• What drives her obsession with name brands
• Why she feels pressured to be perfect
• Why she's no more telling you everything
• And what three vital things adults can provide to girls in their lives to downplay the theatre.

Stuffed with functional strategies from tweens and young mentors to help men and women understand what ladies today are facing, The Drama Years is a must-read for anyone battling to help ladies find their way the often difficult change into adolescence.