Collaboration builds strong bonds. The friendships we develop from an experience on an athletic team or helping to elect a political candidate attest to this force. As a research physician and member of the American Heart Association, I help organize a statewide fund-raising walk. I recruit my daughters to help. The shared sense of accomplishment and success is ample reward.
Smaller collaborations are also important.
A vegetable garden is a joint project that supplies our summer table. Be attentive to these active young women, your daughters. Get involved in their lives, talk with them and work with them. You, and they, will be the better for it. This article is reproduced with the permission of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools.