Amalia and her friends played hard core imaginative games that took your breath away with the breadth and scope of set up, negotiation and storyline. While she enjoyed playing in dirt and mud as much as Izzy, I didn't find her dangling from the tops of trees nearly as often or wheeling at breakneck speed down steep driveways. Amalia is 12 and very different from her sister. But Izzy has always counted boys among her very best friends and still does at age 15. Even Izzy, my tomboy, went through a quick 8 or 9 months of wearing nothing but pink dresses. As I read CAMD, I found myself creating a mental checklist of things we consciously tried to do in raising our girls. I say somehow because I don't want to sound too self-satisfied, but I'll confess that reading Orenstein's book felt like a welcome pat on the back in many ways.
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