Let's Talk


Book Description

Many great father-daughter books highlight the benefits of being an engaged father, cite statistics about the impact fathers have on a daughter's life, and give practical advice about how to foster such relationships. But once the stage has been set, many dads don't know what to say or how to approach conversations with their daughters. Using her decades of experience in counseling young women and coaching fathers, Michelle Watson has created a step-by-step template for having conversations that build a stronger bond through laughter, vulnerability, honesty, and self-disclosure. Let's Talk is filled with dozens of scripted questions that walk fathers through the levels of creating a heart-to-heart connection with their daughters by communicating the right way. Through this easy-to-read guide, dads will learn how to listen and build trust as they move from get-to-know-you chats to deep discussions that dive into their daughters' struggles, hurts, and hopes.




The Father-Daughter Talk


Book Description

As the father of three daughters, the author became extremely concerned about the rapid and constant erosion of female dignity in our society -- video vixens, sex tapes, multiple sex partners, etc. Research shows that girls with an unstable father figure are more likely to have an unplanned pregnancy, low self-esteem, be a school dropout, and become involved in drugs and alcohol. This book should be read by every father, as a no-holds-barred guide to having a heart-to-heart life-changing talk with their daughters. It should also be placed into the hands of every young woman -- even if there is no father figure present in her life. This candid advice will help her become assertive, proactive, productive, and creative as she grows into adulthood.




A Father’s Diary


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This masterpiece takes us on a beautiful evolutionary journey as parents, and helps sculpture our children into strong and wonderful human beings. ~ Dr. (Mrs.) Namita Sharma Principal, Queens Valley School, New Delhi. Every conversation between the parent and child is so real and grounded, yet teaches potentially life elevating lessons - both for parents - and children. ~ Dr. Anil Kumar Parashar Jt. Registrar (Rtd.), National Human Rights Commission The children of today’s generation are street smart and worldly-wise. Perhaps the only area where they lack are the softer aspects of life. The good news is that they will easily imbibe all essential life skills if we, as parents, can just find time to interact with them every day. This book is no 'gyan' on parenting. It is a diary of my real-life interactions with my fairies during their growing years. In each of the 28 father-daughter interactions presented in the book, there are 57 life elevating lessons for our children and for us well.




Father-Daughter Conversations


Book Description

I can't raise a daughter. I need time alone to figure this father thing out. Will she ever talk to me and tell me how she feels? All fathers experience these emotions. We doubt our ability to be a great dad and to raise an outstanding daughter. What if you had some help? Father-Daughter Conversations will equip you with the tools all fathers-new, young and seasoned-are searching for to better connect with their daughters and create meaningful relationships. Join the fireside chat and learn from eleven incredible fathers as they explore what it means to become the role model she needs, the father she deserves, and the husbands they were created to be. Grab something to drink, find a quiet room (you deserve it dad) and dive deep into this book. Experiencing first hand the wonder and beauty of authentic, father-daughter conversations.




Talk with Her


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A comprehensive guide to help dads support their daughters through the preteen and teen years up to adulthood “Communication” with your daughter doesn’t mean having “big” conversations all the time. Creating even the smallest moments of father-daughter connection can build bonds. In Talk with Her, you’ll find information on nineteen topics defining your daughter’s life—including body positivity, romantic relationships, social media, mental health, and academic achievement—along with the communication strategies you’ll need to address them with care and confidence. With cutting-edge research, expert perspectives, and talking points, Kimberly Wolf brings broad-ranging and often overwhelming topics into focus to help you make a positive, lifelong impact on your daughter one conversation at a time. “Kimberly Wolf provides a vital map for fathers in navigating the most important—and often the most challenging and turbulent—aspects of father-daughter relationships. This is an engaging, insightful, thoughtful, and wonderfully useful book.” —Dr. Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer and Faculty Director of Making Caring Common, Harvard Graduate School of Education




Too Far from Perfect


Book Description

Too Far from Perfect is based on the reflections of a Toronto high school student about her learning journey from pre-school to grade 12. Through a dialogue with her father, educator Charles Pascal, Tai Notar describes the lessons learned about what has made the big difference to her learning and the educational aspirations of her peers. While Tai's focus in on catching teachers and others doing things right, her narrative also calls attention to things that need to change. In this regard, Tai provides some provocative ideas about how public education can move closer to perfect. This father-daughter conversation is a must read for teachers and parents who believe that we need to listen more carefully to the authentic stories of our children and students.




Meet Me in the Middle


Book Description

This unique resource is two books in one, designed to keep the lines of communication open between dads and their teenage daughters. Start on one side and it's a book for girls aged 13-19. Start on the other side and it's a book for dads. Both cover 10 important (but sometimes awkward) talksthat fathers and daughters need to have.As a dad and his daughter pass the book back and forth, they end up talking about identity, faith, friends, beauty, boys, sex, porn, and their desperate need to stay connected to oneanother during the girl's teen years.The book contains key biblical principles as well as great advice from some sharp women in their young 20's. Every chapter includes discussionquestions and great daddy/daughter date ideas.As dad and daughter work through their ends of the book, they eventually "meet in the middle," where they are led to make a commitment to be there for one another no matter what the future brings.




Becoming the Dad Your Daughter Needs


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A father models for his daughter how women should be treated, how men should act, and how a man shows healthy love and affection toward a woman. And, perhaps most importantly, he sets the standard for how his daughter feels she deserves to be treated by men. Rick Johnson shows men how to develop the close relationships with their daughters that they both need and crave.




Improving Father-Daughter Relationships


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Improving Father-Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads is essential reading for daughters and their fathers, as well as for their families and for therapists. This friendly, no-nonsense book by father-daughter relationships expert, Dr. Linda Nielsen, offers women and their dads a step-by-step guide to improve their relationships and to understand the impact this will have on their well-being. Nielsen encourages us to get to the root of problems, instead of dealing with fallout, and helps us resolve the conflicts that commonly strain relationships from late adolescence throughout a daughter’s adult years. Showing how we can strengthen bonds by settling issues that divide us, her book explores a range of difficult issues from conflicts over money, to the daughter’s lifestyle or sexual orientation, to her parents’ divorce and dad’s remarriage. With quizzes and real-life examples to encourage us to examine beliefs that are limiting or complicating the connection between fathers and daughters, this guide helps us feel less isolated and enables us to create more joyful, honest, enriching relationships.




Better Leaders Ask Better Questions


Book Description

Join the new breed of leaders.... become a "Potentialiser" POTENTIALISER - poa-tena-tia-aa-lia-ser Meaning: Releaser of amazingness in others Your team have more potential than you realise and the chances are that your current management style may be preventing this potential to ever come to the surface through one unconscious act...."Telling"! In this book you will discover how changing your approach by doing less telling and instead, asking Better Questions you will become a "POTENTIALISER" and release the potential of your people and create a team that are more engaged, empowered and fulfilled. Suitable for Leaders at all levels, this book will enhance your leadership style by learning: * How telling can be an inhibitor of potential * How you need to redefine your role by changing your mindset * Why Better Questions are so powerful * How to ask Better Questions and release the potential in your team Some comments from people that have been trained to be "Potentialisers" "I have been amazed that such a simple concept can lead to all sorts of wonderful outcomes" "At times being so busy it is quicker and easier to give the answer, but I have found that by taking the time to ask questions instead of telling, people have the opportunity to shine... they amaze me and themselves!" "Since changing my approach to asking rather than telling I have been really quite amazed by the changes in my team, they seem more committed to their work and even happier in their roles!"