The Butterfly Effect by Dannielle Miller, B.Ed
17-December-2009
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The Butterfly Effect is a must-have book for parents of teens, written by someone who really knows what the go is with the age group and what to do about it all.
Dannielle wrote The Butterfly Effect to inspire parents to create their own new realities for their daughters. Talking to multitudes of girls every year in Australia and New Zealand, Dannielle’s message is authentic and passionate, and her book both celebrates and challenges the joy and beauty of teen girls in an age of raunch and consumer culture. Think binge drinking, self-harm, extreme dieting, body image issues, self-hatred, increasing rate of STDs, 'bad'messages in popular culture, etc.
The Butterfly Effect offers practical, intuitive and powerful strategies, and uses humor to disarm and open up new ways of looking at self-esteem, resilience, body image, friendship, consumerism, navigating the online world, overcoming girls’ fear of failure and finding positive role models.
Why Dannielle knows her stuff
Dannielle's an experienced teacher and educator committed to empowering young people to reach their full potential. Her work has been featured in education journals and has made her a popular speaker at various national conferences and forums.
Dannielle founded Enlighten Education in 2003. Enlighten is now a national network of passionate, talented women who believe that by entering our young girls’ world and engaging them, they have the capacity to be a voice of difference and facilitate meaningful conversations around gender and identity. Dannielle delights in working with thousands of teenage girls across Australia, and with the media as a guest expert on teen issues.
She was also named as the country's number-one Emerging Leader in Learning in 2009 by The Weekend Australian.
The teen whisperer...
The connection Dannielle forges with teenage girls and her ability to get them to open up to her and think about themselves and the world around them gives her unique and invaluable insight into what makes teenage girls tick, and how we can help them navigate everything life throws in their way. Dannielle writes primarily for the mothers of teenage girls, encouraging them to realise that they are more like their daughters than they think and they can help their daughters by helping themselves, too. And what's more, she does this in a blame-free way - the last thing mums need is to be saddled with more guilt!
Mothers of preteen (tweens) and teenage girls will want this book! It's interesting to note that Danni is increasingly getting asked to talk to girls in the tween years - years five and six. There is an ever-renewing market for parenting books.
Our review
We give it a 5/5! It's informative, down-to-earth and really tells you SPECIFICALLY what to DO at the end of each issue's chapter (plus has a cute affirmation to pep you up) instead of just talking about the problems and giving wishy-washy, generic advice. The advice is sound and amazing as Dannielle is right in the scene with teen girls with her work and used to be a teacher of teens at school for years. She has all the cred. and experience for it. We love it! It's a must-have book and guide for parents of teens:-)
We've personally met Dannielle and she is 'shiny', bursting full of positive energy for change, so lovely and down to earth and her 'everybody loves her' personality oozes throughout the book. LOVE IT.