Talk with Her
A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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
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"Making a lifelong impact happens one conversation at a time," writes Wolf, an education consultant, in her eminently helpful debut aimed at helping fathers foster positive relationships with their daughters. The bulk of her advice deals with 19 topics pertinent to a teen girl's development, among them body positivity (encourage them to "nourish yourself from the inside out"), gender and sexual identity ("make sure she knows that she is loved and supported"), friendship ("Don't tell your daughter she ‘needs to be friends with everyone' "), sexual health ("Not everyone is having sex"), college selection ("focus on fit"), and financial literacy ("Talk to your daughter about money early"). In each section, Wolf offers an explainer, goals, talking points, and lists of what to say (plus what not to say). Other highlights include a rundown of strategies to level-up important conversations, including not multitasking while talking, while a q&a chapter features worries from real-world dads: "How can I stay connected to my daughter if I don't live with her," for example, and "Is there a right time to get a divorce?" This is essential reading for dads looking to help their daughters successfully navigate some turbulent years.
