Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter »

Vicki Courtney is the founder of Virtuous Reality Ministries, producing online content and hosting events across the United States for preteen and teen girls and their parents. She is the best-selling author of Your Girl, Between, and two ECPA Christian Book Award winners, TeenVirtue and TeenVirtue Confidential. Known and respected as a “mom in the trenches,” Vicki has shared her youth culture wisdom on CNN, FOX News, Focus on the Family, and blogs each week at VirtueAlert.com. She lives with her husband and their three children in Austin, Texas.

From the cradle to college, tell your daughters the truth about life before they believe the culture’s lies.

For mothers with girls newborn to eighteen, this is simply a must-have audiobook.

Introduction 1

Conversation 1 You Are More Than the Sum of Your Parts 5

Chapter 1 Pretty Packaging 7

Chapter 2 The Size Demise and the Weight Debate 17

Chapter 3 Buyer Beware: Exposing the Media Lies 31

Chapter 4 Redefining Beauty 47

Conversation 2 Don't Be in Such a Hurry to Grow Up 61

Chapter 5 Girlhood Interrupted 63

Chapter 6 The Friendship Factor 79

Chapter 7 Boy, Oh Boys! 91

Conversation 3 Sex Is Great and Worth the Wait 105

Chapter 8 The Culture's Message: Sex Is Great-Why Wait? 107

Chapter 9 What the Culture Is NOT Telling Your Daughter about Sex 117

Chapter 10 Teen Pregnancy: Being Honest about the Options 131

Chapter 11 A Reality Check for Christian Parents 145

Chapter 12 A New and Improved Sex Talk 155

Chapter 13 Additional Conversations 165

Conversation 4 It's OK to Dream about Marriage and Motherhood! 175

Chapter 14 The Anti-marriage Agenda 177

Chapter 15 Hooking Up, Shacking Up, and Other Marriage Busters 193

Chapter 16 When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Mom 207

Conversation 5 Girls Gone Wild Are a Dime a Dozen-Dare to Be Virtuous 223

Chapter 17 Bad Is the New Good 225

Chapter 18 Princess Today, Royal Pain Tomorrow? 235

Chapter 19 The Timeless Qualities of a Virtuous Young Woman 247

Appendix 259

Notes 263