Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic CultureA guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages. Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their ability to gain attention, and an ever increasing accrual of accomplishments. With such unattainable standards, it is no wonder that many girls experience stress, self doubt, and