{"id":28135,"date":"2016-06-14T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=28135"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:27:27","slug":"untangled-by-lisa-damour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/untangled-by-lisa-damour\/","title":{"rendered":"Untangled by Lisa Damour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1162641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28136\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/untangled.jpg?resize=264%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"untangled\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>If you are\u00a0raising a teenage daughter, no doubt you could use some support. You will find it in Lisa Damour&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1162641\" target=\"_blank\">Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through The Seven Transitions Into Adulthood<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0this book Damour,\u00a0who also directs Laurel School&#8217;s Center for Research on Girls in Shaker Heights, OH and writes a column for the<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/search\/sitesearch\/?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Health&amp;region=TopBar&amp;WT.nav=searchWidget&amp;module=SearchSubmit&amp;pgtype=Blogs#\/lisa+damour\/since1851\/allresults\/1\/bylisa+damour\/\" target=\"_blank\"> New York Times&#8217; Well Family <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/search\/sitesearch\/?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Health&amp;region=TopBar&amp;WT.nav=searchWidget&amp;module=SearchSubmit&amp;pgtype=Blogs#\/lisa+damour\/since1851\/allresults\/1\/bylisa+damour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a>,\u00a0outlines seven transitions that adolescent girls must navigate on the way to adulthood. Identifying such transitions helps prepare us for their arrival so that we don&#8217;t feel so bewildered once they arrive.\u00a0It helps prepare us for the reality that, just as we get used to a new &#8220;normal&#8221; everything can\u00a0change all over again. It also helps us take care to\u00a0experience\u00a0each stage of development\u00a0without getting stuck somewhere along the way.<\/p>\n<p>If the idea of identifying\u00a0stages of human psychological growth appeals to you, but you don&#8217;t have teenage daughters, you may be interested in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=199098\" target=\"_blank\">Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World<\/a> by Bill Plotkin, which identifies 8 stages spanning the entire human lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>Reading\u00a0such books\u00a0helps us better know ourselves and our relationship to the world, to better understand where we&#8217;ve been and how it has shaped us.\u00a0If the ancient Greek adage &#8220;know thyself&#8221; has any relevance, then I think it naturally follows that &#8220;know thy offspring&#8221; would, too. After all, whether we want to see it or not, they often provide a reflection of some aspect of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are\u00a0raising a teenage daughter, no doubt you could use some support. You will find it in Lisa Damour&#8217;s Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through The Seven Transitions Into Adulthood. In\u00a0this book Damour,\u00a0who also directs Laurel School&#8217;s Center for Research on Girls in Shaker Heights, OH and writes a column<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/untangled-by-lisa-damour\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3601,3435,109],"class_list":["post-28135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-teenage-girls","tag-teenagers","tag-teens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7jN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28439,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions\/28439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}