Life skills primer!

The Teen Girl’s Survival Handbook: Your Adulting Life Skills Guide—How to Make Friends, Manage Money, Claim Your Independence, Avoid Drama, and Prepare for Your Successful, Healthy, and Happy Future by Marisa Summers

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The Teen Girl’s Survival Handbook: Your Adulting Life Skills Guide—How to Make Friends, Manage Money, Claim Your Independence, Avoid Drama, and Prepare for Your Successful, Healthy, and Happy Future by Marisa Summers; 178 pp.

In this day and age it is important for everyone to develop life skills early on to face the world. Most young adults leave home to live on varsity campuses, or with roommates very early in life. It is particularly important to develop adulting knowledge and skills to survive in the world. This concept of learning life skills becomes all the more important for teenaged girls who are vulnerable and targets for a host of crimes that boys are not.
Marisa Summers, a passionate advocate for self-sufficiency, confidence, and practical life skills and a working mom of two teenagers is keen to share her knowledge of overcoming life’s challenges with every teenager out there. With her background in leading corporate work teams Summers presents The Teen Girl’s Survival Handbook a 7-chapter; 178-page volume of practical wisdom, life skills, and knowledge to equip young women with the confidence to face and thrive in the world.
In the introduction Summers lists out the most common dilemmas and problems that teen girls face including but not limited to removing makeup stains from clothes, managing periods, filing taxes, etc. The introduction details the concepts covered in the book such as financial literacy, kitchen skills, making and maintaining friends, and self-care routines to feel good, among others. “Life is easier when you’ve got these skills. Some will be part of your everyday routine, while others don’t seem to matter… until that one fateful moment when you need…,” writes Summers.
Each chapter of this book deals with a specific topic and is subdivided into sections explaining the details. Self-care and personal hygiene; emotional and mental well-being; social and communication skills; financial literacy and money management; education and career development; home and independent living skills; and digital and online safety are the broad range of topics covered in separate chapters.
The conclusion brings all the chapters together in brief while encouraging teen girls to live life with confidence and fulfillment. The comprehensive list of references act as a unique resource for those who want to learn more.

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