Lori Day, a mom, educational psychologist, parenting coach and new author, remembers that day about 15 years ago so well. She was reading something in The New York Times about how clothing manufacturers were marketing adult fashions directly to girls as young as her daughter, who was 7 at the time. Frustrated, she headed upstairs to her "clunky old Dell desktop computer" (remember, it was 1999) and wrote her first letter to the editor. At about the same time that she says her eyes were opened to the sexualization of girls, she and her only child, Charlotte, passed by their local book shop. In the window was a display about mother-daughter book clubs.
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A new book, "Her Next Chapter," explores the benefits of mother-daughter book clubs
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Author Lori Day started one in 2000 when her daughter was 8
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She says the clubs can help girls deal with issues such as bullying and sexualization
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The book clubs also become a support system for other moms, she says
For six years, from the third grade up until the girls finished middle school, Day, @placeholder and the other mothers and daughters would meet monthly and tackle issues that the girls might have felt uncomfortable discussing directly with their mothers and that their moms might not have known how to bring up with them.