<p>Anyone else read or reading it? I am and it should be required reading for any girl going to college. I know the book shows the extremes of sororities, but it also shows the other issues-date rape, drinking, not studying, all the other issues that all college students will have to face and make their own judgements on.</p>
<p>Hi citygirlsmom, This one was also considered by our guidance dept. for
the senior health day book. They ended up selecting Smashed; Memoir of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zalickas (?). D has read it and told me it is a powerful account of the author’s own drinking history including
much about the binge drinking at college. Funny, she also felt it should be required reading for any girl going to college for the same reasons
you cite Pledge.</p>
<p>Scary books. Nope, I like my girls to be like an ostrich with their heads stick in the sand(j/k).</p>
<p>I just ordered the new version of Our Bodies ourselves for my 15 year old.
I hope it will balance out the health education that they get in school nowdays.</p>
<p>emeraldkity4, that is a good book. I had the old version(Our Bodies ourselves), I don’t remember gave it away when we moved or what. Your post reminds me to check my books.</p>
<p>I had the original version and the original version of the Whole Earth Catalog too!
I loved that
sometimes I miss the 70’s ( or do I just miss what I remember it was like to be 17?)
I do have riding in cars with boys and a few other books which might be called “cautionary tales” but I don’t suggest my kids read them- that would be a sure way to turn them off.
While I did read reviving Ophelia, frankly these books about the horrible state of marriage/girls/boys/ make me tired.
I recognize that being a teen is difficult- but frankly that isn’t news.
I am not miss mary sunshine, but I think it is far more effective to focus on what is changeable and positive, than whip myself into a frenzy because I read some study that indicates: girls pattern themselves after mary kate & ashley ( or the Bush girls take your pick) or
low slung jeans and belly rings are not going away .
I don’t mean to hijack the thread, but I guess I had a little vent coming about generalized topics of how the world is going down hill.
My sisters favorite topic is how things were so much better in the “olden days”.
I suppose that would be before antibiotics, before minorities and womens could vote, before the 40 day work week, rock and roll and indoor plumbing.
Ill take the indoor plumbing thank you very much- I am still jealous of my daughter moving into an apt with 2 bathrooms, when she was raised in a house with one ( our house was built before indoor toilets)</p>
<p>Yeap, I did read Ophelia, I remembered I got very anxious as a parent, as luck turned out, my daughter does have an occasional teenage moments but a far cry from anything depicts in that book. I do think I gave that book away when we moved.
Well yeah, somethings are better and some are worse, but that’s life. My H&I told our kids we did not have the luxury of having electricity all the time until in our teens perhaps. Hey it helps to deal with power outages in Ca in the last few years with no sweat and that is the most positive spin I could spun out of that crisis. I do love these tongue twisting things.(lol)</p>
<p>I have read Pledged. My daughter purchased the book read it, then gave it to me to read. After I read the book it did provide a good jumping off point for conversations since she does attend a school with a strong greek presence. The great thing is that school does not allow freshmen to pledge in their first year.</p>