The Australian Women's Weekly

Girls can do anything

Maggie Dent is best known for books on bringing up boys but is grandmother to a brood of girls, and, as she says, was once a girl herself. In her latest book, Girlhood, she turns her attention to our girls. Here, she shares a little of that wisdom.

Why are a girl’s first 100 days so important?

When we arrive as a baby, most of our brain cells – our neurons – aren’t yet connected into networks. So, every experience that happens from there is building the way that unique little brain is being shaped. It’s not only about how we’re going to manage this sensory world, the whole human mind – our sense of who we are, our identity, where we fit in the world, our belief systems and mindsets

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