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Title: Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast by Joe Kelly ISBN: 0-7679-0834-1 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: News dads can use
Comment: Joe Kelly has been in the trenches for 20 years as the father of twin girls and he brings great news: dads can experience unconditional love while raising strong, healthy daughters. His book is jammed with moving insights and concrete tools for being the best dad possible. I wish my father had read this book when I was young, but my husband will definitely have a copy on his nightstand from now on. And I'm betting he'll enjoy reading Kelly's clear, lively prose.
Rating: 5
Summary: Real father's voices -- essential reading
Comment: This is a powerful book. The anonymous reviewer from Lafayette, CA seems to have missed the point of the book; the author states clearly right at the start that he is not an academic, a therapist or a researcher. He bases his reflections on the voices of REAL dads and his own 20+ years experience as a father. As Kelly states, "fathering is more art than science." The anonymous reviewer from Lafayette (unintentionally?) reveals a major problem in material on the daughter-father relationship by referring us to a pamphlet about "parents." Such information is obviously valuable, but so is Dads and Daughters - finally a book by a father, filled with other fathers' voices, about this consistently neglected relationship. Kelly's book fills a glaring gap.
Dads and Daughters is a MUST read for any man with a daughter, and for any woman who ever had a father. It is robust proof of the power of fathers' words - a power that developmental psychology or other science just doesn't provide in the same way.
Rating: 5
Summary: The book is fabulous and a must for dads with daughters
Comment: I'd also recommend it for daughters with dads, mom's with husbands, brothers with sisters, uncles, stepparents, and so on.... In a sentence, the book offers intelligent and thoughtful insights as well as practical suggestions on how to think about one's role as a parent and how to explore what a father can offer his daughter if he really sets his mind to the loving task of raising her.
The book's foundation is the author's inspiring vision of fatherhood. This vision involves the dad who might on Monday write a letter to a company protesting an ad that promotes unhealthy body images for girls. On Tuesday he patiently sits at the dining room table and listens to his daughter describe a problem, while limiting himself to facilitating her effort to solve or resolve it on her own. On Wednesday, he gets dirty with her playing soccer. On Thursday, they talk about boys and he shares, with honesty and openness the good and bad she can anticipate in her relationships. On Friday, he swallows the feeling of rejection when she's angry with him and won't even say why, and he ends up seeking advice from another dad he's friends with. On Saturday, his patience pays off and he accepts her invitation to help out in a volunteer activity she's organizing. And on Sunday he asks her to help in return, fixing a leak under the kitchen sink with him--making sure she learns how the plumbing works in the process.
Not every dad does all of this, but what a great world it would be if they did and this book can help more fathers assess themselves and turn more of their parenting potential into a reality.
-Gary
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Title: Daughters & Dads: Building a Lasting Relationship by Chap Clark, Dee Clark ISBN: 1576830489 Publisher: Navpress Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: What A Difference A Daddy Makes the Lasting Imprint A Dad Leaves On His Daughter's Life by Kevin Leman ISBN: 0785266046 Publisher: Nelson Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Father to Daughter: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl by Harry H. Harrison ISBN: 0761129774 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self-Esteem: An Indispensable Guide for Parents, Teachers & Other Concerned Caregivers by Will Glennon ISBN: 1573241547 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Father a Successful Daughter by Nicky Marone ISBN: 0449002608 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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