Excerpt from Chapter 2
Why Can't She Ever Think for Herself? Adolescent Girls and Their Peer Group

WHY DOES MY ADOLESCENT DAUGHTER WEAR "WEIRD STUFF"?
—---Mike O.

To begin with, you've got to remember that what you think is weird is not weird to your daughter. And, if you constantly criticize and judge your daughter's way of dressing, she will feel like you don't respect her right to have her own form of self-expression through her clothes.

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