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Overall, I enjoyed reading Queen Bees & Wannabes. It was fun reading about different situations and how parents should handle them, in order to get the best results. It was also interesting to learn about the troubles girls go through during middleschool. Three highlights from the book that I was able to connect with would be; cliques, gossiping and reputations. First of all, no matter what school or how old, there will always be cliques. After reading about the different roles played within a clique, I looked back on cliques in my life and tried to figure out who played each role. Putting a face to each role helped me to better understand and connect with what they had to gain and lose from playing that role. The section that talked about gossiping I believe, applies in everyone's life. It made me realize how big a role gossiping plays in everyone's life. Most conversations revolve around something we heard about someone and had to share with someone else. When your friends calls and says they have to tell you about so and so, have you told them to stop? I know I haven't. I connect with this because I can't imagine not gossiping to my best friend. Lastly, everyone has a reputation that they don't deserve and can't erase. Rumors spread through gossip and soon the entire school labels you with a reputation you can't shake. It's unfair to believe what you hear through a second hand source, but even if it's true maybe the girl made a mistake. She shouldn't hold this label for the rest of her life. It's easy to connect with this because I believe it happens to everyone and everyone has seen it happen in school. Possibly even watched it destroy a person's life. 

The intended audience for this book is parents (mostly mothers). This includes parents that want to form a relationship with their child, learn what their going child is going through, how to talk to them and how to approach them. The author attempts to persuade and connect with the the audience through the ending. She basically says that I have given you all the tools to handle your daughter and now it's up to you to implement them. If you choose to, it should help your relationship but, there's always a chance your child could need professional help. By saying this, she is trying to persuade you to use her methods first to try and prevent professional help. I would recommend this book to any parent or teen. I think it would diffently help the relationship. For parents, they can learn what their child is going through and how to help them through it. For teens, I personally think it's interesting to read about and it will give you a nested idea how to handle stuff on your own. It may be strange to read a parenting book but once you start it's hard to stop. 

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"Encourage Michelle to tell Amber how she feels and brainstorm how to respond if Amber tells her she's just being jealous. ("I know you think I'm jealous, but that's not the issue here. The issue is that we agreed we were going to hang out. Good friends don't blow each other off the second a better offer comes along.")"

The punctuation in this passage is a reflection of Rosalind Wiseman's writing style throughout the book. For this particular excerpt, Wiseman wants Michelle to come up with a way to explain her feelings to Amber, to help her understand that she's not jealous. After Wisman states what should be done, she then uses parentheses to give an example of what could possibly be said. Using the parentheses to give examples shows that she is there to help guide parents and children through these types of situations. Therefore, I believe they are very effective for this type of book. 

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In Queen Bees & Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman explains the different types of teasing. There's good, unintentional bad and intentional bad teasing. Good teasing is where everyone involved feels respected. Unintentional bad teasing is where the teaser doesn't intend to hurt the other person's feelings. Lastly, Intentional bad teasing is where the teasing is used to put the person down and silence them. 

An event in my life that closely relates to this section in the book is when two of my friends got into a fight about unintentional teasing. Friend A would always invite Friend B to hangout but each time she would decline. Friend A confronted Friend B about never wanting to hangout. Friend B said that every time they hangout she always in ends up getting made fun of and it hurts her feelings. Friend A then apologize and said next time to speak up sooner because she had know idea it hurt her feelings since she was always laughing along. Friend B excepted the apology but said she no longer wants to be friends. 

The book and my event are linked together because they are both about unintentional teasing. The book explains how to know if you are unintentionally being teased and what to do about it. My event shows a scenario and  a possible outcome after confrontation.