Healthy Father Daughter Relationships
Book Review:
Healthy Father-Daughter Relationships: A Practical Guide for Every Father
By: Brian Edwards
The topic of healthy father daughter relationships have often not been given the emphasis it deserves.
The eBook Healthy Father-Daughter Relationships: A Practical Guide For Every Father offers a well organized Table of Contents that will help the reader find a specific section within the eBook.
This is helpful if the reader has a specific concern and needs rapid access to the information that most interests them.
The topics include:
- Healthy Father-Daughter Relationships
- The Early Years
- Communicating With Your Daughter
- Engaging In Activities
- Discipline And Guidance
- Academic Achievement
- Drugs And Alcohol
- Dating And Sexuality
- Guide Her Choices
- Encourage Her Independence
- Blended Family Conflict
- Dealing With Grief
- Spirituality
- Major Lessons
- References
The extensive list of references shows the author did his due diligence in learning about the subject of father-daughter relationships.
Read this list of references because it is a valuable resource for additional reading material if you wish to further your education for the benefit of yourself and your daughter.
Refreshingly, the author takes the stance of what you can do with your daughter instead of castigating fathers for what they do not do. That means a caring father will monitor his daughter's academic achievements, supervise and influence the friends she keeps, and address the dangerous situations or activities she will be exposed to.
Healthy Father-Daughter Relationships: A Practical Guide For Every Father can help a father in aiding his daughter deal with blended or step families, in the way she faces grief and loss, and how she accepts responsibility as she becomes more independent while growing.
Interpersonal Communication
The author reveals that the early years are imperative to a strong bond between a father and his daughter.
Astutely, he points out that a young girl cannot feel good about herself until she knows her father feels good about her by wisely using authority carefully. She wants her father to be her hero in that he is stronger and wiser than she.
Brian Edwards points out that those girls who need disciplinary action in school or who are sent to counseling report feeling hurt when their fathers abandoned them or otherwise ignored them. Therefore, fathers taking their natural authoritative stance and being involved in their daughter's life is OK.
This information will be welcomed by authoritarian fathers who have been accused of being in the wrong when in fact they have been on the right track.
This fact alone makes this eBook well worth reading.
Therefore, the reader (whether that be the father or the mother wanting to have the father become more involved with her daughter's life) knows having a healthy father-daughter relationship is not only possible but preferable.
The author stresses the importance of having a father's input during his daughter's early years.
This involvement will contribute to her healthy childhood, establish a solid foundation for her teen years, and help her make the transition into early adulthood.
What's the payoff for the father?
He gets a chance to form a trusting, loving relationship with his daughter that will extend into his later years.
That's golden.
The author makes the point that communication is key to a healthy father-daughter relationship. He then tells fathers in simple language how to communicate with their daughters.
It is a simple solution to what many fathers view as a complex problem.
Fathers are better prepared to be active in their son's lives than they are to be involved in their daughter's. And once again, the author reduces this potentially stressful situation to a simple to understand and implement activity.
The reader has the sense that the author understands the psyche of fathers as well as he does their daughters.
By offering a full understanding, in very simple to understand terms, of how daughters think and the stresses fathers are under Brian Edwards shows fathers that they can easily establish great relationships with their daughters.
That is refreshing.
More importantly, it will motivate fathers to actually use the information found in this eBook instead of just ignoring it as another batch of psychobabble from an academic living in an ivory tower.
The fact that fathers may actually pay attention and implement the suggestions outlined in this eBook says a great deal about the ability of this author to motivate his audience.
To make this information easy to read and absorb the author has supplied simple, short, and easily understood lists of things to do that are relative to the topic being discussed.
How To Save A Relationship
Healthy Father-Daughter Relationships: A Practical Guide For Every Father is a relatively short, sweet, and information packed piece.
These attributes are welcomed by men and will make it more likely they will read and put this information into action. This is an especially important selling point if the mother or daughter is the person purchasing it for the father to read.
This point is especially important in the realm of discipline and guidance since these duties often fall to the father.
Discipline done for the right reasons and in the correct way will offer the daughter the guidance she needs to steer her toward the desired behavior.
The author makes the point that punishment is the most often considered form of discipline but may backfire resulting in defiance. It is up to the father (in most cases) to know how to offer sound judgment, wisdom, and apply his life experience to steer his daughter away from dangerous and destructive actions or behaviors.
The author offers a list of both actions that work and a list of those that do not work. Once again, these are offered in his no nonsense,
workman-like style that most men will appreciate and internalize.
This pattern continues with each of the topics covered in the Table Of Contents. That will give you a good idea of what to expect from this eBook.
Overall, Healthy Father-Daughter Relationships: A Practical Guide For Every Father is a good book, written in a style that will appeal to men, and offers very sound advice.
Buy it.
This is the manual for fathers that should have come with his daughter when she was born.
