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Rising Queens · Ages 11–13

For Parents

Middle school, decoded — with real conversation starters.

Free companion guide

What's inside her book

  • Glow From Within — Who am I when nobody's watching?
  • Healthy Mind, Healthy Heart — Regulate, don't retaliate.
  • Glow Up Life Skills — Budgets, banking, and adulting basics.
  • Future Queen — Careers, goals, and your first plan.
  • Glow Girl Community — We rise by lifting each other.

This guide covers

  1. 1. What she is learning, chapter by chapter
  2. 2. Conversation starters that don't feel like a lecture
  3. 3. Friendship drama & boundaries at home
  4. 4. Her first budget: how to back her up
  5. 5. Printables & family night ideas

What she's practicing

  • • Identity, values & self-image
  • • Emotional regulation and stress
  • • Budgeting your first dollars
  • • Speaking up and setting boundaries

How to help at home

  • • Ask her to read you one page out loud — let her be the teacher.
  • • Pick one keepsake from her Glow Book each week and ask about it.
  • • Sessions run about 25–35 minute sessions — short and steady wins.
  • • Celebrate finished chapters out loud. Progress beats perfection.

Book applications: Plan · Test · Reflect

Each book ends with an application brief that connects five chapter tools to a realistic, low-stakes situation. It can use an invented scenario when privacy matters.

Example: a one-page plan for making a shared school space more welcoming can include a value, another person's perspective, a small test, and a feedback question.

A simple grown-up role

  1. Invite her to choose a school, friendship, money, or future-planning situation that feels safe to discuss.
  2. Ask her to name which chapter tool shaped each part of her plan.
  3. After the project, ask what she would keep, change, or ask an adult about.

Feedback that helps

  • • Does she use evidence or a real observation instead of a guess?
  • • Does her plan include other people's perspectives?
  • • Is the first action small enough to test and revise?

Projects are practice, not a reason to manage conflict alone. Adults should step in for safety concerns, bullying, serious distress, or decisions that need permission.

A note for grown-ups

Rising Queens includes reflection journals and discussion prompts designed for parent–daughter conversation at home.
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