Bringing Up Girls (Abridged): Practical Advice And Encouragement For Those Shaping The Next Generation Of Women (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
I'm a collector of parental literature. I love being a parent and I love the scientific method. There are answers to most of our problems in books, including those we run into with our babies. So I read multiple books and try multiple methods until I find something that works for me and for my daughters. This book, however, was God-awful (pun intended). Didn't finish it. So much of what he says annoys me. And his harping on sex, sex, sex is bothersome too. Super chauvinistic. I wish someone had told me how focused he is on religion and what an agenda he has. His constant harping on the "good old days" is such BS. Right Dobson, because it was better when women didn't have any choices and they couldn't vote. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for traditional values when it comes to manners and respecting adults; for doing chores, learning humility, kindness, charity, responsibility, moral strength and a host of other character traits. But this book doesn't seem to be a help to me in raising my girls to be any of those things. (okay maybe there's some stuff that was okay, but overall, I can safely say that I think this book is a waste of parents time. This opened my eye up a lot about what is going on inside of a little girls body and in her head. Also how to handle all the emotional issues that will or already have shown up. Loved reading the part where he talks about how the dads need to be involved in a little girls life before they get to old because they look at their dads for who they are going to look for in a husband and if they don't get love and affection from their dads they are going to go and find it elsewhere
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Great resource for the parents of girls! Worth every penny and second of time!
—camille
Kind of clinical. Skipped some chapters and others were worth the book cost.
—Hanh
