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Rosalind Wiseman is an internationally recognized author and educator on children, teens, parenting, education and social justice. Her work aims to help parents, educators and young people successfully navigate the social challenges of young adulthood.
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Articles About Rosalind
Newsweek: Do We Ever Outgrow High School?(0)
What happens to mean girls when they grow up? Judging by some recent examples, they become CEOs, politicians, or reality-TV-show stars.
‘Queen Bee’ Author Rosalind Wiseman on Bullying’s New Realities
Bullying is back in the headlines, as it is all too often, with the suicide of a teenager who was victimized by her schoolmates. Nine of them were charged last week with felonies. More can be read about it in this Sisterhood post. The Sisterhood spoke with author Rosalind Wiseman, whose 2002 book “Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence and the movie based on it, “Mean Girls,” crystallized in popular culture the notion of girls who bully and are bullied. Wiseman, the mother of two sons, ages 7 and 9, lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
When Mean Girls Go Digital
Rosalind Wiseman’s bestseller Queen Bees and Wannabes struck a raw nerve with parents around the country when it first came out seven years ago. Wiseman’s frank discussion of Girl World opened up what had been a hidden topic-how girls use social status as a kind of weapon as they build friendships throughout adolescence. The book also inspired the 2004 movie, which had a happy ending when all the previously mean girls turned almost nice.
Rosalind Wiseman on Indiana Youth Institute’s Kids Count Radio Show
If you don’t live in Indiana, chances are good that you missed Rosalind’s interview last week with the Indiana Youth Institute’s Kids Count Radio Show. Rosalind was a guest along with Sarah Ketterer, the program coordinator at the Clarian Bullying Prevention Program.
A New Rite of Passage
Digital puberty: It might not be in the dictionary yet, but its effects are being discussed by teachers, social psychologists and cultural anthropologists plotting out the pitfalls, mapping the maneuvering, of this bold new world where teens grow up — and strive and stumble. It’s all being played out on a digital stage these days. It’s this cyber-hangout — always on, ever-connected, texting and instant messaging, plugged into one social network or another — where teens and preteens now gossip and flirt. It’s where they break up and make up. Post pictures of where they all hung out the night before.