Girls on Track
  • Published: 15 March 2004
  • ISBN: 9780345456861
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00

Girls on Track

A Parent's Guide to Inspiring Our Daughters to Achieve a Lifetime of Self-Esteem and Respect

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During adolescence, if a girl isn’t careful, she can fall into a trap called the Girl Box—a place where the way she looks is more important than who she is, where having a boyfriend is worth giving up a piece of her identity. This is a very serious problem, one that can lead to substance abuse, eating disorders, early sexual contact, and depression. Now Molly Barker, founder of the dynamic Girls on the Run® exercise program, has created a ten-week self-esteem-building plan that will instill resiliency in young girls and enhance their emotional, social, physical, mental, and spiritual health. The activities and lessons are designed for parents and girls to do together and include
  • Published: 15 March 2004
  • ISBN: 9780345456861
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Molly Barker

Molly Barker, MSW, a 4-time Hawaii Ironman triathlete,
founded GOTR® m Charlotte, NC, m 1996. Molly began
running at the age of 15 - an age when she found herself
stuck in the "girl box," when only girls who were a certain
size with a certain beauty were popular. Molly kept running
and years later, on July 7, 1993, she took off on a sunset run
and found the inspiration that grew into Girls on the Run®.
Using her background in counseling and teaching, her
personal recovery from alcoholism, along with research on
adolescent issues, she developed the earliest version of the
curriculum with the help of 13 intrepid girls at Charlotte
Country Day School. The program grew and today Molly
oversees over 20,000 girls who participate in GOTR
programs across the country. In 1998 Runner's World, a
national running magazine, awarded Molly its "Golden
Shoe Award" for contributions to the community through
running. Her favorite times remain the ones she spends with
her own daughter and her son at their home in Charlotte,
NC.

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