Telling Stories Never Fails To Produce Good

How Many Therapists Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb? One, As Long As The Lightbulb Wants To Change.

We Are A Small, Interconnected World; That We Are All Safe Or None Of Us Are; That We Are All Well Cared For Or All At Risk.

Maturity Involves Being Honest And True To Oneself, Making Decisions Based On A Conscious Internal Process, Assuming Responsibility For One's Decisions, Having Healthy Relationships With Others And Developing One's Own True Gifts. It Involves Thinking About One's Environment And Deciding What One Will And Won't Accept.

Teenage Girls Are Extremists Who See The World In Black-and- White Terms, Missing Shades Of Gray. Life Is Either Marvelous Or Notworth Living. School Is Either Pure Torment Or Is Going Fantastically. Other People Are Either Great Or Horrible, And They Themselves Are Wonderful Or Pathetic Failures. One Day A Girl Will Refer To Herself As "the Goddess Of Social Life" And The Next Day She'll Regret That She's The "ultimate In Nerdosity.

Parents Wrongly Assume That Their Daughters Live In A World Similar To The One They Experienced As Adolescents. They Are Dead Wrong. Their Daughters Live In A Media-drenched World Floded With Junk Values. As Girls Turn From Their Parents, They Turn To This World For Guidance About How To Be An Adult.