Pink Chaos

Pink Chaos: Navigating the Mother-Daughter Relationship with Your Tween
Paperback – September 24, 2024

🏅 Award-winning: Benjamin Franklin Award, Silver (Parenting & Family) · Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, Bronze

Growing up today can feel like pure chaos—especially for tween girls navigating friendships, social media, and self-esteem. While everyone expects the teen years to be challenging, the tween stage (ages 9–12) often catches parents off guard. Pink Chaos is a must-have parenting book for moms of tween daughters, offering practical tools, heartfelt stories, and expert guidance for building confidence and emotional connection before the teen years hit.

The tween years are your window. Build trust and easy conversation now, and you’ll both have something solid to lean on when the teen years hit. Author Shayna Feldman Barksdale, LCSW-S, founder of Austin Therapy for Girls, shows you how.

“It’s like having a therapist in your back pocket.”
— a Pink Chaos mom

⭐ Rated 4.6 stars on Amazon

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Welcome to what Barksdale calls “Girl World.” It’s the universe today’s girls live in—filled with friendship drama, body image struggles, social media pressure, and constant comparison—but it’s also full of opportunities for confidence, connection, and resilience. Pink Chaos helps moms and daughters navigate this world together—with humor, heart, and hope.

Inside Pink Chaos, moms will discover:

✅ Practical tools for starting honest, supportive conversations
✅ Scripts in girl-approved language to help connect (without the eye rolls)
✅ Simple strategies to validate feelings, show empathy, and actively listen
✅ Guidance to help moms show up for their daughters—without losing themselves in the process

Pink Chaos isn’t just a parenting book—it’s a lifeline for moms who want to help their daughters thrive in the chaos of Girl World.