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A good first step is talking with girls about why \"norms\" aren't always normal and healthy, advises Shushann Movsessian, who wrote Puberty Girl (Allen & Unwin, 2004) and holds groups on puberty for girls in Sydney, Austalia. Discuss how attitudes about female body hair have changed in your lifetime. During many moms' girlhoods, girls weren't expected to shave, so they were content about that body aspect. Holding a mom-daughter group discussion could provide a fun trip down memory lane that gives girls a close-up of adult females who are content with some body hair. Remind girls how they're manipulated by the beauty industry, says Movsessian. When girls and women are unhappy about body hair, \"product sales go up!\" If your daughter is anxious to begin hair removal and argues that \"everybody\" is doing it, find out who everybody is, and how girls who don't remove hair fare. \"One 12-year-old girl I know made a decision not to wax or shave her legs, even though all her friends were having a hair-removal party,\" says Movsessian. \"Her friends ended up respecting her for her stand.\"

These school reforms aren't widespread, so parents need to do their own sleep education, moving girls toward saner sleep patterns and modeling healthy sleep patterns themselves. Starting well before adolescence, routinely discuss sleep needs with your daughter just as much as you'd advise her on important nutrition and exercise needs, and help her recognize sleep deprivation symptoms. With puberty's onset, many girls experience sleep cycle changes that make them feel sluggish in the morning and alert until later at night But the reality is that our girls still need to be able to work with school schedules that don't change. \"There's plenty parents can do to help a girl get on a better sleep schedule,\" says Mary Carskadon, psychiatry professor at Brown University Medical School and sleep researcher. Gradually get her up earlier, and gradually curtail her late-night light exposure, advises Carskadon, to reinforce instinctual body and brain clocks instructing us to be awake when the sun's up and asleep when it gets dark. Caffeine in the after-school hours can affect sleep, she warns, as can late-night stimulating activities such as TV and computer games that also prolong light exposure.

Her sleeping patterns--staying up late during the week, catching up on weekends--are typical of most teenagers'. But this routine, combined with normal adolescent hormonal shifts that also affect sleep patterns, meant that Chloe, like many of her peers, was spending about half the week in a state of serious sleep deprivation. In fact, teens need more sleep than younger children. Most need between 8.5 and 9.25 hours of sleep each night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Unfortunately, especially with most high schools starting at 8 a.m. or earlier, kids are lucky to get between five and seven hours of sleep a night. Add to this the fact that more teenagers are working and that homework loads are increasing, and it's no wonder that kids are exhausted and sleep researchers truly concerned. Second, talk with your children before adolescence about healthy sleep patterns, much the way you'd discuss nutrition and exercise. You can help your girl to develop an awareness of the signs that she is sleep deprived. And you can help preteens to find ways to relax and unwind before sleep by avoiding TV, video and computer games, and stimulants like caffeine and sugar. Long before the constraints and demands of high school, children need to become aware of their individual sleep requirements, recognize their own sleep patterns, and develop the habit of \"sleeping smart.\"

A good way to start writing a children's novel is to think about one's interests and identify the good elements of the story. One must modernize its message for contemporary teenagers. Willey discusses how she merges together the unfolding mysteries of the identities of her characters in A Summer of Silk Moths.

It is important for a writer to select memories that belong in a story without making the reader feel manipulated. A writer describes how she strings together memories in her short story entitled \"Cassie's Gift.\"