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New Website for Parents of Girls - www.mydaughter.co.uk

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www.mydaughter.co.uk – the New Website for Parents

The Girls’ School Association (GSA) – the professional association representing the heads of leading independent girls’ schools in the UK – has just launched a new website for parents of girls – www.mydaughter.co.uk. It sets out to help parents to fathom out some of the mysteries of parenting a daughter! It also tells you why girls thrive at girls’ schools.

Sharing Experience and Expertise with You
www.mydaughter.co.uk aims to unlock and share the expertise and experience of the heads and staff within girls’ schools. These schools deal with girls day in and day out and many thousands of girls have passed through their care. There cannot be many issues to do with educating or raising girls that girls’ schools have not had to face at some time or have been asked to advise parents about. Staff in girls’ schools, many of whom are parents themselves, feel that they are particularly well placed to offer the sort of objective, up-to-date information and advice that parents say they are looking for about raising and educating their daughters. Schools don’t have all the answers, but they do have an idea of what is a normative experience and are likely to have more experience of the exceptional.

Responding to Parents’ Concerns
The GSA decided to create this new website in response to parents’ concerns, and hope that it gives you the sort of help you are looking for. There is no doubt that many mothers and fathers worry about getting the balance right between helping their daughters to realise their academic potential while at the same time enabling them to be happy and to keep safe.

Offering You Advice and Guidance
www.mydaughter.co.uk contains advice and guidance on issues such as education choices; realising girls’ full academic potential; recognising eating disorders and signs of bullying; development stages; relationships; social pressures; social networking sites and internet safety, and communicating with teenage girls.

Educating Your Daughter
The section on ‘Educating Your Daughter’ includes tips for parents on education choices and development stages from under 5 through to 18 . There are also case studies written by parents and students, independent research reports and a schools’ directory.

Raising Your Daughter
The section on ‘Raising Your Daughter’ includes advice on relationships with friends and family; social pressures such as sexual relationships, drugs and alcohol, food and diet, bullying and self-esteem; personal and internet safety, and self-discovery.

The site also offers an interactive forum for those who register with www.mydaughter.co.uk

Let the GSA have your feedback!
There is opportunity for you to offer feedback, comments and to put your own questions. The GSA would welcome any contributions that you might wish to make to the site, either in providing case studies, being an advocate, contributing an article or comment and joining the forum discussions.

A Unique Resource
www.mydaughter.co.uk is a unique resource for parents of girls and will develop according to your responses, queries and contribution. We hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

About The GSA
The Girls’ Schools Association (GSA) is the professional association representing the Heads of leading independent girls’ schools in the UK. Our mission is to inform and influence national educational debate, to raise awareness of the benefits of single-sex education for girls, to promote high standards of education for girls and to support members through the provision of a broad range of services.