As the girls make their way from childhood to young womanhood, they learn to value their own judgment in addition to their fathers' experience. Filled with traditional wisdom, this anthology explores timeless issues like kindness, respect, self-reliance, and trust. Also advises kids how to cope with going back and forth between two homes, parents' dating and remarriage, and how to do well in school. Includes a chapter for parents summarizing the research on the effect of divorce on the children. Students created an illustration for each chapter and also critiqued drafts of the book.
Kids do fine if they receive loving contact from both parents.
Built around young people's own words rather than a preachy adult voice, young readers gain a kind of peer support group. Adult readers gain insights from kids' observations. Visually interesting to a young reader with lots of graphic designs. Full of great advice for kids, and parents too. In many ways, it's a peer support group in print.