Educational Resources

NoSorry's mission is to help raise girls to be more confident women. We've spent hours distilling the latest social emotional learning research to create the free downloads below.

We have a guide For Parents and lesson plans For Teachers. Both are designed to help you teach your children the right and wrong times to say "sorry!"

Free Guide for Parents

Raising daughters with a powerful sense of identity, high self-esteem, and personal autonomy and accountability is not an easy task, nor does it take a one-size-fits all approach.

Download Parent PDF

Free Lesson Plan for Teachers (SEL)

To help build more confident kids, we want them to both understand what it means to be confident and how confidence helps improve the way we speak and relate to the people around us.

Download Plan PDF

Further Reading

Still can't get enough? Neither could we. As soon as you start listening for "sorry!" you hear it everywhere.

Below is a curated collection of the research we used to shape the NoSorry Educational Resources and the No Need to Apologize Movement.


Biddulph, Steve. “Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong.” 2013.

Blachor, Devorah. “The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess.” 2017.

Elium, Jeanne and Don. “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman.” 1994.

Hurley, Katie. “No More Mean Girls: The Secret to Raising Strong, Confident, and Compassionate Girls.” 2018.

Marone, Nicky. “How to Mother a Successful Daughter: A Practical Guide to Empowering Girls From Birth to Eighteen.” 1998.

Preuschoff, Gisela. “Raising Girls: Why Girls are Different - And How to Help Them Grow Up Happy and Strong.” 2006.

Shaffer, Susan and Gordan, Linda. “Why Girls Talk and What They’re Really Saying.” 2005.

Wolf, Kimberly. “Talk With Her: A Dad’s Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters.” 2022.

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