Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Regardless of her age, your daughter will be looking to a man in her life.  For most of her young life, that’s you, dad.

You have the biggest impact.  You make the biggest difference.  You are the one that she looks to as a model for the man that she will one day marry.  You have more power to help shape her life than you ever knew.

As a father to a little girl, these are sobering words.  We’ve all seen the situation comedies that portray the girl as the rebel and the father as the bumbling dolt.

We may have decided that we cannot truly have an impact on our kids– especially when they become teens.  And yet the truth is that we have much more influence in our children’s life– and yet we choose to stand on the sidelines.

Dr. Meg Meeker wrote Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know to try to help show us dads that our children are gifts and that our daughters are much more influenced by us than we thought:

What was amazing for me in this book is that many of the preconceptions I had about my relationship with my kids– not just my daughter– were shown to be different than reality.

For the next few posts I’d like to look at some of the things Dr. Meeker has to say about the Father/Daughter relationship, and encourage the dads among us to get involved in our children’s lives.

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