Choosing Myself: A Parent & Caregiver Guide for Supporting Teen Girls
Choosing Myself: A Parent & Caregiver Guide is a practical support guide for adults helping teen girls work through Choosing Myself: A Boundaries & Self-Respect Journal for Teen Girls.
Raising and supporting teen girls requires more than rules, lectures, and warnings. Teen girls are navigating friendship drama, crushes, body autonomy, social media pressure, family expectations, emotional overwhelm, peer approval, and the complicated process of figuring out who they are.
This guide helps parents, caregivers, mentors, counselors, and trusted adults show up with more clarity, care, and emotional safety.
Rather than telling adults how to control teen girls, this guide focuses on how to support them. It helps adults understand the themes inside the journal, start better conversations, respect privacy, respond without overreacting, and create space for teen girls to think critically about boundaries, self-respect, relationships, consent, identity, and emotional safety.
This is not a guide about becoming a perfect parent.
It is about becoming a safer, steadier, more thoughtful adult while the teen girl in your life learns how to choose herself.
Inside, adults will learn how to:
- support teen girls without turning every conversation into a lecture
- talk about boundaries, consent, dating, friendship, and social media with more care
- recognize the difference between guidance and control
- honor privacy while still staying involved and protective
- respond to emotional honesty without punishment or panic
- help teen girls build confidence rooted in self-respect
- create safer conversations around body autonomy, crushes, peer pressure, and identity
- encourage accountability without shame
- become a trusted adult teen girls can actually talk to
Choosing Myself: A Parent & Caregiver Guide is ideal for parents, caregivers, mentors, counselors, therapists, educators, youth workers, and anyone supporting teen girls as they build boundaries, confidence, emotional awareness, and healthier relationships.
Teen girls do not just need adults who love them. They need adults who can listen, guide, protect, and support them.
Product Details
Title: Choosing Myself: A Parent & Caregiver Guide for Supporting Teen Girls
Author: Kiki Bryant, The Uppity Negress
Format: Parent and caregiver guide
Best for: Parents, caregivers, mentors, counselors, therapists, educators, and youth programs
Companion product: Choosing Myself: A Boundaries & Self-Respect Journal for Teen Girls
Themes: Boundaries, self-respect, emotional safety, communication, consent, dating, friendship, social media, privacy, body autonomy, confidence, and teen girl support.