MyDaughter

MyDaughter

URL	http://www.mydaughter.co.uk
Slogan	Online advice for parents
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	English
Owner	Girls' Schools Association
Launched	January 2009
Current status	Online

MyDaughter is a British website set up by the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) offering advice to parents of daughters on all aspects of raising and educating girls^[1]. Advice is provided by head teachers from the member schools of the Girls' Schools Association and other specialists in fields such as nutrition, psychology, health education and business.

History

MyDaughter.co.uk was launched in January 2009 following a survey of 1000 parents of daughters which asked 'How well do you know your daughter?' The survey found that sex and relationships were the most difficult subjects for parents to discuss with their daughters and that WAGs were the worst influence on girls^[2]. It also highlighted a range of other topics that we a cause of anxiety to parents. The research revealed that parents wanted help and advice on how to deal with these issues^[3]. This led the Girls' Schools Association to develop the MyDaughter brand as a source of online advice for parents. The Girls' Schools Association was approached by the Friday Project, an imprint of Harper Collins who will publish "Your Daughter", a book of the site in January 2011^[4].

Content

MyDaughter.co.uk contains articles and responses to questions on education choices, realising girls' full academic potential, dealing with eating disorders and signs of bullying, development stages, family relationships, sexual relationships^[5], social pressures and addictions^[6], social networking sites and internet safety and communicating with teenage girls. Site visitors can register to post a question to the which may then be answered by the panel of experts.

The site features notable alumnae from GSA schools including Claudia Winkleman, Claire Young and Miranda Krestovnikoff. It also offers a search facility for girls' schools featuring all GSA schools.

MyDaughter schools

Below is a list of GSA member schools which can be found on the site.

• Abbots Bromley School for Girls
• Abbot's Hill School
• Alderley Edge School for Girls
• Amberfield School
• Badminton School
• Bedford High School (England)
• Benenden School
• Berkhamsted School
• Blackheath High School GDST
• Bolton School (Girls' Division)
• Bradford Girls' Grammar School
• Brighton & Hove High School GDST
• Bromley High School GDST
• Bruton School for Girls
• Burgess Hill School for Girls
• Bury Grammar School Girls
• Casterton School
• Central Newcastle High School GDST
• Channing School
• City of London School for Girls
• Cobham Hall
• Combe Bank School
• Craigholme School
• Cranford House School
• Croydon High School GDST
• Dame Alice Harpur School
• Dame Allan's Girls' School
• Derby High School
• Dodderhill School
• Downe House
• Dunottar School
• Durham High School for Girls
• Edgbaston High School for Girls
• Farlington School
• Farnborough Hill
• Farringtons School
• Fernhill School
• Francis Holland Sch (Regent's Park)
• Francis Holland Sch (Sloane Square)
• Gateways School
• Greenacre School for Girls
• Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
• Harrogate Ladies' College
• Heathfield School
• Heathfield School Pinner GDST
• Hethersett Old Hall School
• Highclare School
• Hollygirt School
• Holy Trinity School
• Howell's School (Denbigh)
• Howell's School, Llandaff GDST
• Ipswich High School GDST
• James Allen's Girls' School
• Kent College, Pembury
• Kilgraston School
• King Edward VI High School for Girls
• King's High School
• Lavant House
• Leicester High School for Girls
• Leweston School
• Lodge School, Purley
• Loughborough High School
• Luckley-Oakfield School
• Malvern St James
• Manchester High School for Girls
• Manor House School
• Marymount International School
• Merchant Taylors' School for Girls
• Moira House Girls' School
• More House School
• Moreton Hall
• New Hall School
• North London Collegiate School
• Northampton High School GDST
• Northwood College
• Norwich High School GDST
• Notre Dame Senior School
• Notting Hill & Ealing High GDST
• Nottingham Girls' High School GDST
• Ockbrook School
• Old Palace of John Whitgift School
• Oldham Hulme Grammar Schools
• Oxford High School GDST
• Palmers Green High School
• Peterborough High School
• Pipers Corner School
• Polam Hall School
• Portsmouth High School GDST
• Prior's Field School
• Putney High School GDST
• Queen Anne's School Caversham
• Queen Margaret's School (York)
• Queen Mary's School (Thirsk)
• Queen's College London
• Queen's Gate School
• Queenswood
• Redland High School for Girls
• Roedean School
• Royal Masonic School for Girls
• Rye St Antony School
• Saint Martin's^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• School of St Helen & St Katharine
• Sheffield High School GDST
• Sherborne Girls
• Shrewsbury High School GDST
• Sir William Perkins's School
• South Hampstead High School GDST
• St Albans High School
• St Andrew's School^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• St Catherine's School, Bramley
• St Catherine's School, Twickenham
• St Dominic's High School for Girls
• St Dominic's Priory School
• St Francis' College
• St Gabriel's School
• St George's School, Ascot
• St George's School for Girls (Edinburgh)
• St Helen's School
• St James Senior Girls' School
• St Joseph's Convent School
• St Leonards-Mayfield School[1]
• St Margaret's School (Edinburgh)
• St Margaret's School (Exeter)
• St Margaret's School, Bushey
• St Margaret's School for Girls (Aberdeen)
• St Margaret's School Hampstead
• St Martha's Senior School
• St Mary's Convent School
• St Mary's School Ascot
• St Mary's School Calne
• St Mary's School Cambridge
• St Mary's School Colchester
• St Mary's School Gerrards Cross
• St Mary's School, Shaftesbury
• St Nicholas' School
• St Paul's Girls' School
• St Swithun's School
• St Teresa's School
• Stephen Perse Foundation
• Stonar School
• Stover School
• Streatham & Clapham High GDST
• Surbiton High School
• Sutton High School^{[disambiguation needed ]} GDST
• Sydenham High School GDST
• Talbot Heath School
• Teesside High School
• The Abbey School
• The Brigidine School
• The Cheltenham Ladies' College
• The Godolphin and Latymer School
• The Godolphin School
• The Grammar School at Leeds
• The Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
• The Kingsley School
• The Ladies' College
• The Lady Eleanor Holles School
• The Marist Senior School
• The Mary Erskine School
• The Maynard School
• The Mount School (London)
• The Mount School (York)
• The Newcastle upon Tyne Church High
• The Princess Helena College
• The Queen's School Chester
• The Red Maids' School
• The Royal High School Bath GDST
• The Royal School Hampstead
• The Royal School Haslemere
• The Stamford Endowed Schools
• Thornton College
• Tormead School
• Truro High School for Girls
• Tudor Hall^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Wakefield Girls' High School
• Walthamstow Hall
• Westfield School^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Westholme School
• Westonbirt
• Wimbledon High School GDST
• Withington Girls' School
• Woldingham School
• Wychwood School
• Wycombe Abbey School
• Wykeham House School

References

1. ^ Frean, Alexandra (2008-11-15). "Headmistresses offer key to teenage girls through MyDaughter website". Times Online. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5158283.ece. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
2. ^ Clark, Laura (2009-01-09). "High heels, low IQs". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1110045/High-heels-low-IQs-Dazzled-girls-want-WAGs-instead-having-careers-warn-headmistresses.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 
3. ^ BBC News, 9 January 2009, "Girls 'under too much pressure'"
4. ^ The Bookseller, "TFP to publish girls school advice"
5. ^ Daily Express, 23 July 2010, "Kimberley Walsh - Could this be the new age of morality?"
6. ^ Clark, Laura (2009-06-16). "Children getting hooked on Redbull". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193301/Children-getting-hooked-Red-Bull-warn-heads.html. Retrieved 2010-06-19. 

External links

• Official website