The Daring Book for Girls

I recently learned of this book and it's premise and I gotta say, I love it!

I think everyone should buy this book for every girl in their family! This book is about teaching today's girls to be like we were when we were kids. To be free and interesting girls, untethered to electronics.

I love the introduction in the book written by Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz. It's so good I'm gonna re-write it here for you even though it's on their website. It reads:

"We were girls before the Web, cell phones, or even voicemail. Telephones had cords and were dialed, by, well, actually dialing. We listened to records and cassette tapes - we were practically grown-ups before CDs came to pass - and more often than not, we did daring things like walk to school by ourselves. Ride our banana-seat bikes to the local store. Babysit when we were still young enough to be babysat ourselves. Spent hours on our own, playing hopscotch, or tetherball, building a fort in our rooms, or turning our suburban neighborhood into the perfect setting for covert ops, impromptu ball games, and imaginary medieval kingdoms.

Girls today are girls of the twenty-first century, with email accounts, digital cable, iPods, and complex video games. Their childhood is in many ways much cooler than ours - what we would have given for a remote control, a rock-climbing wall, or video chatting! In other ways, though, girlhood today has become high- pressured and competitive, and girls are inducted into grownup-hood sooner, becoming tweens and teens and adult women before their time.

In the face of all this pressure, we present stories and projects galore, drawn from the vastness of history, the wealth of girl knowledge, the breadth of sport, and the great outdoors. Consider the Daring Book for Girls a book of possibilities and ideas for filling a day with adventure, imagination - and fun. The world is bigger than you can imagine, and it's yours for the exploring - if you dare.

Bon Voyage."

So, don't wait any longer. Get your hands on this book and pass it on! Consider it a right of passage for your daughter, grand daughter, niece, cousin, or friend's daughter; sorta like passing on the family recipe book. I can't wait to start going through it with my daughter. I know I will learn new things as well.