Let's start with the fact that this will take more than one entry per chapter. There are so many different "things" to think about as you read about girls and their emotions. Some of it is incredibly interesting because I think as grown women we perpetuate this stifling of what girls are really feeling since, in many cases, we are still doing it!
Simmons talks about how when she works with girls, it is often a first step to have them even identify what emotions they are feeling. Girls work so hard trying to feel the "right" emotions they often can't even name what is really going on within them. There are messages coming from parents, teachers, friends, society, and media as to what are the "acceptable" emotions a girl should be feeling, so when girls feel those other emotions, they stifle them in one way or another.
This chapter focuses on knowing, expressing, and accepting emotions. Here are the big questions: How are we supposed to do this with our daughters if we have been brought up in the same myth Simmons discusses in the book? As adult women are we knowing, expressing, and accepting our emotions?
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