Product Description

To encourage and guide men in becoming the dads they want to be, Michael Farris addresses issues common in all families with daughters: friends, dating, personal appearance, and preparing for the roles she’ll have as a woman. Michael Farris challenges fathers to take their unique opportunity to train daughters for life’s challenges—in ways that only a dad can. Originally published as How a Man Prepares His Daughters for Life, it now includes new material on relating to an adult daughter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22793 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764228704
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Michael Farris has six daughters and three sons. Founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, he counsels men and women across the nation on parenting issues. He and his wife, Vickie, lead marriage and family seminars. The Farris family lives in Virginia.

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Books I've Ever Read on Parenting
I was attending a Christian writer's convention when I saw Michael Farri's book on the table. Having a five-month-old daughter at home, the title immediately grabbed me. True to its cover, this book is a must-read for every father who has daughters.

Filled with personal insights, biblical exposition, and practical tips, What a Daughter Needs From Her Dad is a wonderful, insightful, call to fathers to raise good, solid, Christian ladies.

Michael can talk about raising girls, becuase he has six of them! This is a book that I will keep close to me as I watch Grace grow up, hopefully putting into practice the lessons Michael Farris has given in his book. It is my goal to raise a young lady who yearns for God.

Fathers, please do our country a favor, and buy this book!

For the Christian counterculture
How does a God-fearing father deal with some of the explosive issues facing him and his daughter in this world of dreadfully loose morals? How can he help his precious little one(s) correctly face the questions and issues that are inevitable in the process of becoming a full-grown woman?

One thing he must not do is ignore these issues and fade into the background, expecting his wife to deal with it alone, even if she is present and willing and capable. Certainly there are some issues where mommy is uniquely qualified, but a father's perspective is important to his little girl even in these areas. Fatherhood is not for wimps.

That's the beginning of Mr. Farris's wise and insightful advice in this gem of a little book, one that bears reading and rereading. He writes from a conservative Christian perspective, a point of view for those of us who know that God's Word still speaks to our lives and guides us through what is often a trashheap of society around us. His advice is very much counterculture, but the Bible tells us we are to not allow worldly philosophies to undermine the timeless Judeo-Christian values we hold dear.

Many times it's hard to know how to walk the razor's edge between prudishness and an appropriately joyful Christian life that can be seen as such by those around us, especially our daughter's peers, but Mr. Farris gives us the benefit of his experience in raising six little girls in today's world. His input is priceless.

A Must must read for Moms and Dads
This is a wonderful book. I bought it for my husband b/c we are headed into the teen years and thought it would be helpful.
This is a must read for mothers and fathers. This book was so very helpful to us. I am hoping that it will save us from some of the heartache that we have seen others go though.

The book is wonderfully written and very interesting and easy to read.

I really do not think that anyone would be sorry for getting this book.

There are several girls in our family and we have been passing the book around to each set of parents.