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Sloane Crosley

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire ha

Sloane Crosley

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The author describes her grandmother as a socially prominent woman from Scarsdale who gained recognition for writing a teenage advice book in 1959. Despite this, her actual approach to parenting was very strict and harsh, even more so than the famously tough actress Joan Crawford.

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