In this straightforward and thought-provoking book, psychologist and parenting author Gisela Preuschoff considers the understandings that parents require to raise girls today.

The book focuses on girls' emotional and physical development, their education, social conditioning and their relationships with parents and siblings. Using a warm and conversational approach, Gisela communicates in an accessible way to parents, injecting her own experiences as a mother.

The book also includes stories from the experiences of Australian families. Her advice ranges from birth to late adolescence and across issues to do with physical and sexual development, girls and learning, parent-child relationships and the daughter's emotional life.