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“The Girlpower: Be Confident! comic book teaches teenage girls and women how to take charge of their safety and have freedom.”
“Now I know how to protect myself from being bullied. I also learned how to stop unwanted touch.” — a 9th grader, India
Girlpower: Be Confident!
Available on Amazon in Paperback and digitally in the Kidpower Online Learning Center!
Also available in Spanish and Arabic!
Teen girls and women often have to deal with the crippling effects of peer pressure, bullying, harassment, violence, and abuse, which can have a severe effect on their health, social, and academic skill development.
“Girlpower: Be Confident!” is the journey of four friends as they learn to tackle everyday problems and barriers, at school, work, public spaces, or even at home. Read about Meira, Ritu, Saina, and Taru – as they learn to reach their highest physical, intellectual, and social potential, using their “GIRLPOWER”!
The entertaining comic illustrations and engaging social stories address a wide range of personal safety issues with skills for teens and adults in simple, clear, and memorable language.
We aim to equip teenage girls and women with knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experiences to keep themselves emotionally and physically safe; help forge new patterns in social interaction; promote healthy life styles and choices; and overcome other barriers in reaching their highest social, physical, and intellectual potential by building their boundary-setting, self-advocacy, and positive peer interaction skills in a way that is effective, not fear-based, positive, and fun.
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“I like the GirlPower comic book and how the girls handle different problems in their life. Meira is my favorite character.”
— 15 year old student, ARDAR School, India
Table of Contents
- Welcome To Girlpower
- The Girlpower Friends
- Girlpower Means Safety Comes First
- How To Show Awareness And Confidence
- Ways Of Being More Or Less Safe
- Different Ways To Be Powerful
- Meira Uses Her Walk-Away Power
- Together Or On Your Own
- Know Your Safety Plan
- Ritu Keeps Herself Safe On The Bus
- Ritu Checks Before Changing Her Plan
- The Girlpower Friends At The Park
- Taru’s New Watch
- Emergencies
- Friends At The Mall
- Stop! I Need Help!
- Introduction To Boundaries
- Please Stop And Listening Power
- The Trash Can Technique
- Taru Learns To Protect Her Feelings
- Accepting Compliments
- Safety Rules On Touch
- Bribes, Power And Promises
- Ritu Sets Good Boundaries
- Ritu Tells To Get Help
- Taru Keeps Trying
- What Is Bullying?
- Taru Has A Bully At Work
- Stop Others From Bullying
- Handling Peer Pressure
- Safe And Unsafe Friends
- Trouble At Home
- The Boyfriend Problem
Comments From Readers
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★★★★★ Excellent book for girls to develop confidence going out in the world.
As soon as I gave this book to my daughter she sat down and read it cover to cover. Great lessons in here for how to go out confidently into the world with good boundaries, and effective ways to communicate them.
~ Bing Bing, Verified Amazon Purchaser
★★★★★ Essential skills for teen girls and women!
I was 23 when I took my first Fullpower class (adult version of Kidpower class with padded instructor) and came away feeling empowered with skills and concepts to keep myself safer. While I was still young at that time, having the important skills that I learned in the Fullpower class at an even earlier age could have helped me empower myself as a teen and during my college years. GIRLPOWER provides these lessons in a widely accessible format and I’m so excited and grateful that so many more girls, teens, and women will be able to learn how to keep themselves safer and more confident in the world!
~ Mei, Verified Amazon Purchaser
Daily we read horrifying news about abuse and violence against children especially girls. It is the aim of our school to teach our children to be confident leaders. We came across Girlpower comic book and safety trainings as a powerful method to ensure safety of the children. Ms. Sobha Rani, trainer from Kidpower has come to our school and trained our girl children in Girlpower Safety skills. The children also received a nice Girlpower comic book from which they can read interesting social stories and practise the skills on their own. Now I can tell with assurance that the girls are equipped with the necessary skills to protect themselves and face the world courageously.
~ Appala Naidu, Principal, ARDAR School
Felt nice to learn the skills. The skills are useful to become confident and safe, in one’s life.
~ Pathivada, 10th grade student, ARDAR School.
I like the most – how voice helps us to be safe and how to protect our feelings even.
~ Kommaru, 10th grade student, ARDAR School
After the classes, I learned different powers like walk-away power, mouth-closed power, hands-down power etc.
~ Gara, 9th grade student, ARDAR School
Now I know how to protect myself from being bullied. I also learned how to stop unwanted touch.
~ Kibilla, 9th grade student, ARDAR School.
“Daily we read horrifying news about abuse and violence against children especially girls. It is the aim of our school to teach our children to be confident leaders. We came across Girlpower comic book and safety trainings as a powerful method to ensure safety of the children. Ms. Sobha Rani, trainer from Kidpower has come to our school and trained our girl children in Girlpower Safety skills. The children also received a nice Girlpower comic book from which they can read interesting social stories and practise the skills on their own. Now I can tell with assurance that the girls are equipped with the necessary skills to protect themselves and face the world courageously.”