A Very Good Guide to Raising a Daughter

by Bill Good

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976776847
• ISBN13: 9780976776840
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Purple Box Press
• Length: 101 Pages

Customer Reviews

Personal revelations through real life stories are the best when it comes to parenting advice

I started the book late at night hoping to get a chapter read. Two hours later I finished it, wide eyed and amazed. I had smiled a lot, laughed out load a few times and made several audible sighs. After I turned out the light I had a good cry. Why? Because our journeys raising our children are oh so different and mine as a mother to a now graduating 17 year old son had been amazing. The book reassured me that friendship between parent and child is not only not a bad thing as many parenting books suggest, but that it is an evolving, changing, fluid thing which is the reward of good parenting. And while I am slightly choked up seeing my son leave for college, I know our friendship is deepening. So the tears were for many reasons. First, this father and daughter had an honesty and realness in their revelations that touched me deeply. Second they debunked several trendy views on parenting. (You will see when you read it.) Third, the whole gift of parenting is one of the top three gifts I've received. Bill and Jenny talked about ordinary things and found the extraordinary in each other. Bravo! Susan Baldwin Stroh

Mother of sons

I admit it. I'm neither a father, nor do I have a daughter. But I am a mother, and I have successfully raised two sons, and the stories in this charming "dialog" between father and daughter have given me insight into my relationships with my own progeny. I'd also like to think I've raised my boys well enough that they would meet the criteria on the Father's Checklist for Dating His Daughter. (Uh, should I have a similar list for girls my boys bring home?)

Such a Moving Guide

I want to tell you how much I enjoyed the book! I know I should have let my husband read it first, as we have a 13 year old daughter and a 20 year old son, but I had to read it first. My husband's going to read it this weekend. The emotions I felt! I was so proud, because my husband is #1 with Leslie. She's a very special daughter....we are so proud of her but I do have to admit there are times when I'm so envious of the special bond that the two of them have. They have their own language and complete each other's sentences. They also say things and the other will say I was thinking that or I was going to say that! There is definitely a mother/daughter bond....but the father/daughter one is very special. The other emotions are remembering my special first #1 guy, my dad. He's been gone 8 years now, but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about him and miss him. Almost weekly I find myself picking up the phone to call him and remembering I can't, and wishing I could share the good and the bad! So the book is wonderful for Daddies...but also all us daughters out there.....from 1 to 101!

"Who is raising who?"

In between attending a client's funeral, celebrating my wife's birthday and packing for a week-long cruise, I managed to read A Very Good Guide to Raising a Daughter. My daughters will soon get their turn. I found the book to be a most entertaining read, but informative as well. I was especially amused that "The Father" thought he was raising "The Daughter" while all the time she was raising him. This is a must read for Fathers raising daughters. Or, "Dads, read this book before your daughters do."

This Book Can Build Relationships

I have been a financial sales professional for over 22 years. As soon as I saw the title of this book, I wish I had it in my hands a long time ago. There are not many things you can do in this day and age to build relationships with clients and prospects. This book is one of them. After I send this book to every one of my clients who is in the process of raising a daughter, I will keep one in my briefcase for every prospect I meet with who is in the same situation.