Compass by Dr. Ursula Bell is one of the best Parenting Books with 10 Parenting Principles for Guiding Girls into Becoming Adults and Parental Guidance on How to Raise Girls into Empowered Adults.
Parenthood and female youth are two diverse stages in life. While parents and their children sit from unique vantage points, their experiences are similar in one way - with each day comes a new challenge that calls for a fresh roadmap, a seasoned navigator and a new Compass.
In this heart-warming and well-informed parental guide, Dr. Bell uses ten key principles to open up transformational and necessary conversations that will navigate parents and their daughters through a plethora of every day, modern challenges together as a family, including:
- Zero Tolerance policies to encourage academic performance -- and enjoyment
- Navigation of friendships as the RESPECTFUL Best Friend
- Conversations around the effects of Underage Drinking
- Four ways to combat and Speak Up Against Bullying
- Discipline using Positive Reinforcement as a bridge
This book is a bank of wisdom gleaned from research, evidence-based literature, and experiential factors. Each story shared in this book by a daughter, family friend or colleague is meant to add a touch of reality and humanity to these principles, lifting them off the pages and into your daily life. Most importantly, each conversation is led to promote intentionality. Adolescence is a formative period for parents to guide their daughters through life's choices with purpose. With seven sections dedicated to developing young girls into wise, well-equipped and empowered adults, Compass serves as every parent's go-to for navigating this transitional period.
Dr. Bell is an American healthcare scholar who has been working in the field for over two decades, serving various hospitals across North America in leadership and executive roles. A recipient of academic and professional awards, she has studied and conducted research on psychology while consulting, mentoring, and speaking nationally.Dr. Bell currently works for a healthcare organization and enjoys spending time with her husband and their two daughters.
Industry Reviews
"In this book Dr. Bell carefully depicts true life in all social-economic classes. Her inclusion of the numerous challenges we face daily as families raising girls with their best interest at heart, and using explicit data from verifiable sources to help us understand more and better equip our children for their ultimate success in the real world is amazing and highly educational."
-- Gayle, Mother & Clinical Psychologist
"Dr. Bell is speaking to all women in her well written book and gift to all of our daughters, and all the women in our lives, young or old. The best thing about it is a timeless piece of work and would serve generations of women."
-- Dr. Alexa, Mother & Pediatrician
"Considered our nation's most precious resources and future leaders, our daughters' journey from their cradle to board rooms as admirable leaders, community collaborators, gracious ladies, loving mothers and wives, genuine friends and compassionate neighbors amidst challenges form the core of the narratives and strategies by Dr. Bell."
-- Dr. Goldman, Father & MD
