{"id":611,"date":"2007-01-25T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/strong_fathers_1.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:35","slug":"strong_fathers_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/strong_fathers_1.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters – Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

My reading of Meg Meeker’s Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters<\/a> is progressing (surprise!) slowly.
\nChapter 1 – You are the most important man in her life.<\/strong>
\nMeg starts this chapter with her observations from 20 years of medical practice, watching daughters & what their relationship with heir fathers does, or doesn’t do, for them. She says “They might take their mothers for granted, but not you.” She talks about what girls will do to try to get their father’s attention (some scary stuff) and how they react to us.<\/p>\n

When she’s in your company, your daughter tries harder to excel. When you teach her, she learns more rapidly. When you guide her, she gains confidence. If you fully understood just how profoundly you can influence your daughter’s life, you would be terrified, overwhelmed, or both.<\/p>\n

p. 8<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lest you think this is a book of opinions of one woman doctor, Meg Meeker provides 59 footnotes from 30 some distinct sources in this chapter alone. Most of these are statistics about the world your daughter faces. Meg states more than once that the father’s role is to stand between your daughter and a “toxic culture”, a culture that is “yanking the best right out of them”. How toxic? Some statistics:<\/p>\n

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