The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Rachel Simmons (Author), Christina Moore (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

4.4 89 ratings

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle Edition

"Please retry"

$14.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$21.81

$13.28

Paperback, Illustrated

"Please retry"

$22.00

$16.15

$9.21

Rachel Simmons is a New York Times best-selling author and the founding director of the Girls' Leadership Institute. The Curse of the Good Girl looks into the phenomenon of the glass ceiling placed on girls who attempt to live up to the standard of being "good". Simmons then shows how parents can help build girls' self-esteem and give them the strength to pursue their goals.

Listening Length

7 hours and 47 minutes
Author

Rachel Simmons
Narrator

Christina Moore
Audible release date

Oct. 28 2009
Language

English
Publisher

Recorded Books
ASIN

B072PZL17Z
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
See all details

Your complimentary audiobook is waiting

Free trial includes 1 credit in your first month good for any title of your choice, yours to keep.
Plus, you can enjoy unlimited listening to The Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts, and audiobooks.
You'll unlock exclusive member-only sales, as well as 30% off your purchases of any additional titles.
After 30 days Audible is $14.95/month + applicable taxes. Renews automatically.

Learn more about membership

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

List Price: $30.69

You Save: $3.84 (13%)

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions Of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

Related to this topic

Name: The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence &#40;Audible Audio Edition&#41;: Rachel Simmons, Christina Moore, Recorded Books: Amazon.ca: Books
Rating: 4.4 (89 reviews)

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Product details

Listening Length	7 hours and 47 minutes
Author	Rachel Simmons
Narrator	Christina Moore
Audible.ca Release Date	October 28 2009
Publisher	Recorded Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B072PZL17Z
Best Sellers Rank	#106,238 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #804 in Gender Studies (Audible Books & Originals) #897 in Child Psychology in Counseling #1,092 in Child Psychology & Development

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

89 global ratings

5 star		68%
4 star		16%
3 star		7%
2 star		5%
1 star		4%

How are ratings calculated?

Top review from Canada

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

sparks

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 4, 2017

Verified Purchase

AWESOME

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Jana Parkin

The best book I've read all year

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 15, 2014

Verified Purchase

I can't believe how on target Rachel Simmons is. I lead a girl scout group in Zurich and will be introducing the concepts of this book to the girls throughout the coming year and recommending all of the parents to buy this book. Building emotional intelligence is crucial to raising great kids. I wish I had known the things in the book when I was a preteen/teen.

16 people found this helpful

anna freund

interesting viewpoint

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 29, 2013

Verified Purchase

I am half way through this book now, I had to skip quite a lot of the repetitive examples when the author has put in conversations with her girls. Of course it is very American and some of the language is lightweight BUT have a highlighter to hand as you read through and you will be surprised at the hidden gems inside the fluff. I am 51 now and have slowly realised after 35 years of working that I have made no progression in my life and career because I was totally programmed to be a good girl. I was told it was good manners to let other people be first, I had to give up my seat to the stranger on the bus, let my classmates win at sport, let my sister have first choice in everything and be happy to have her clothes after she had outgrown them. At work I was used to train other people up who then were promoted over me, using my knowledge and guidance. So I'm going to fully recommend this book to anyone like me - and I hope that you too find something in here that will let you move away from being 'user-friendly' for every one else to being 'me-friendly' for your own peace of mind. Good luck everyone........

43 people found this helpful

Smart Cookie

Insightful but biased and limited.

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on March 14, 2017

Verified Purchase

This is one insightful book and there are definitely some good advices in it, but to me it terribly lacked depth and carried an overly simplistic view on the issue, I wonder too why in a book intended to help raising authentic confident and brave girls there's not a single chapter about fathers; believe it or not, some fathers do want to get involved, do want to know what it is they're doing wrong, and are responsible for some false ideas and assumptions girls develop. The book argues that the "Good Girl" myth drives girls to constantly seek perfection and since no one's perfect obviously they're bound to fail, what message would any girl(mother to be) get when she opens a book about raising girls and she realizes its main focus are the mothers only ?
I also kinda got the sense that the book was kinda promoting the "chill girl" ideal that's nowadays so widespread and has no other aim but making their male partners lives easier. I bought this book because I wanted some insights on how to perpetuate the importance of authenticity and realness to a young one with actions instead of words, how to teach a "Good Girl" that she can still be and feel free when she is loved ? That having an allergy to commitment and feeling trapped is not a label for "bad" but an emotion as any ? Our generation has been lied to about freedom and I feel like nothing has changed for the generations to be. What I got from the book is really light, I feel like it missed out on the core values of authenticity, self-respect and truthfulness to oneself.

Michelle

Useful but flawed imo

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2019

Verified Purchase

This is a useful book, but it has some issues imo.

As I read the book, my biggest takeaways were this:

1. Sure, you can address girl behavior one-on-one, but if the other girls around her aren't learning the same things, it's all sort of pointless in terms of mitigating girl conflict. People have to know these rules/principles/ideas for any one person to be successful in using them. We still don't have a common language or framework around conflict and interpersonal issues among girls, but we have a plethora of sexism and dysfunctional women raising girls who only know how to be mean. So I think the book has useful ideas, but good luck making a difference.

If your kid is the one who has it all figured out...they'll tear her down anyway. if your kid is trapped in the behavior described in this book...they'll tear her down too. Everyone's fodder for mean girls. No one escapes ime. You cannot win. The book doesn't really address this imo.

2. As I read, I realized so many, so so sooooooooo many moms act like tweens in large groups. No wonder I hate most moms. I can't take the group dynamics...the gossip, the backstabbing, the use of piling on to grab power. Too many adults are frozen in tween conflict patterns...they never learned better, and just my luck, they always run the PTA and carline...I cannot get away from them. Like, yo, I just want to decorate for the Halloween party, but noooo, we have to gossip and undermine everyone like crabs in a bucket instead (this is my life with school aged kids...over and over and over again. You could set a clock by it.). Even if the book doesn't make this connection, it helped me to, and actually I will now be working to focus my time and attention on things where I'm not running afoul of moms in the wild. I'm out and now I know WHY. Cool. I have other things to do.

3. My daughter and I don't argue as presented in the book. I didn't realize that may be unusual and was kind of surprised, but it renders large swatch of advice kind of moot. There were also examples of things I would consider emotional abuse between parent and child, which also didn't seem too relevant. It was hard to relate to some of this as a result. We seem to be in a different place.

4. There's no real discussion of how to defuse a bully. There's discussion of conflict but not what to do when the bully is whipping her proxies into a frenzy so they are lining up to kick your you-know-what. How do you defuse that stuff once it's gotten that far? Going to the 'authorities' doesn't work. I'm not sure this book has any answers.

5. I liked a lot of the conflict resolution stuff, the discussion of validating your daughter's feelings...there IS useful information, it's jut not necessarily able to turn the tide when only one person knows any of it.

While I'll reference this book as I parent my tween and I recommend it overall, it feels rather futile. What's the point of a girl being better when actually doing better relies on everyone being better in the same way? And most of the moms are just looking to cut a b?

I just don't think this book is enough to turn the tide. The author would likely have more impact developing social emotional curriculum for schools AND the moms who still handle relationships like tweens. Or perhaps a video class... a MOOC or something. This needs to be large scale if it's going to make an impact.

9 people found this helpful

Reader

Somewhat Helpful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2019

Verified Purchase

I kept waiting to get to the "strategies/exercises" section which seemed to take awhile but once there, I found some useful information. This book had some good points along the way and I think it has the potential to be helpful to many (including finding your voice and conflict resolution), but it also misses the bigger picture - the how and why we've gotten to this point. The media - television, internet, news, social media, advertising, entertainment, our "systems" (education, healthcare, politics), and the search for "more" outside of ourselves is a place to start in order to find real answers. If girls, and humans in general, can get past the control system and realize they are being manipulated and that divide and conquer really is a strategy, maybe there's a chance for all of us. To thine own self be true. Kindness, empathy, a strong value system, spiritual strength, critical thinking, living with love - these are the elements that make strong girls and people. What are we emphasizing as important in our society? Real self-worth is intrinsic. I also think it's important to take into consideration cognitive functions - an introverted intuitive feeler is going to handle and process situations extremely different than an extroverted sensing thinker. This book doesn't take into consideration personality differences between girls, or people in general.

10 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Amazon Music Stream millions of songs	Amazon Advertising Find, attract and engage customers	Amazon Business Everything for your business	Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon	Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Computing Services

Book Depository Books With Free Delivery Worldwide	Goodreads Book reviews & recommendations	IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities	Amazon Photos Unlimited Photo Storage Free With Prime	Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands

Warehouse Deals Open-Box Discounts	Whole Foods Market We Believe in Real Food	Amazon Renewed Like-new products you can trust	Blink Smart Security for Every Home

The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Included with free trial $0.00$0.00

Buy with 1-Click $26.85$26.85

Related to this topic

Product details

Customer reviews

Top review from Canada

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Included with free trial

$0.00

Buy with 1-Click

$26.85