Review: Every father needs this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
Years ago during my late teens and early twenties I noticed that most of the girls I dated or was friends with who exhibited low self-esteem all had one thing in common. They all seemed to have difficult or non-existent relationships with their father. Now that I'm older and a new father to a four year old little girl I've been very conscious of my role in her life and the effects it will have in her later life.Having said all that I was amazed at how little I knew about girl's inner worlds until I read this book! Probably the most important lesson I learned was in the last section dedicated to parents. It had to do with listening to validate instead of offering advice. I think most men have this problem....we're problem solvers and if our wives or daughters are sharing some difficulty we assume they're asking for our advice. This book makes it clear that is not the case and all they're really looking for is validation and acknowledgement. This book is full of helpful info like this that is probably obvious to women but not so obvious to us men. :)So even though this book is geared towards teen girls, it's actually quite helpful for the parents as well. Having never been a teen girl myself (haha) it's sometimes a mystery what's going through their heads. And it seems as men our first and innate reactions are exactly the opposite of what it should be. So this book is quite helpful in bringing such things into the light.Yes, get this book for your daughter....but make sure you read it yourself as well.