{{Short description|British parenting website}} {{Multiple issues| {{more citations needed|date=June 2010}} {{Notability|1=Web|date=October 2025}} }} {{Infobox website | name = MyDaughters | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | url =http://www.mydaughter.co.uk/ | alexa = | commercial = | type = | language = English | registration = Optional | owner = Girls' Schools Association | author = | launch_date = January 2009 | current_status = Closed in 2014 | revenue = | content_license = }}
'''MyDaughter''' was 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/headmistresses-offer-key-to-teenage-girls-through-my-daughter-website-ms6723xnxjl|title=Headmistresses offer key to teenage girls through MyDaughter website |newspaper=The Times|date=2008-11-15 |first=Alexandra |last=Frean |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Advice was provided by headteachers 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 a thousand parents of daughters, which highlighted a range of topics that were a cause of anxiety to parents. The research revealed that parents wanted help and advice on how to deal with these issues.<ref>BBC News, 9 January 2009, "[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7819817.stm Girls 'under too much pressure'"]</ref> 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 were to publish "Your Daughter", a book of the site, in January 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |title=TFP to publish Girls School advice |last=Allen |first=Katie |work=The Bookseller |date=3 February 2010 |url= https://www.thebookseller.com/news/tfp-publish-girls-school-advice}}</ref>
The website closed in 2014 with its functionality integrated into the GSA website.<ref>{{cite web |title=MyDaughter |url=https://gsa.uk.com/?from=mydaughter |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218183344/https://gsa.uk.com/?from=mydaughter |archive-date=18 December 2014 |quote=MyDaughter.co.uk is now part of the GSA website}}</ref>
==Content== MyDaughter.co.uk contained 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,<ref>''Daily Express'', 23 July 2010, "[http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/188543/Kimberley-Walsh-Could-this-be-the-new-age-of-morality Kimberley Walsh - Could this be the new age of morality?]"</ref> social pressures and addictions, social networking sites and internet safety and communicating with teenage girls. Registered site users could post a question to be answered by a panel of experts.
The site featured notable alumnae{{citation needed|date=June 2012}} from GSA schools including Claudia Winkleman, Claire Young and Miranda Krestovnikoff. It offered a search facility for girls' schools featuring all GSA schools.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20141026194622/http://www.mydaughter.co.uk/ Archived homepage]
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