Five Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
Are you a mother? Grandmother? Aunt? Father? Teacher? Coach?Then I’d suggest you read this book. As everyone knows, girls are absolutely different than anything you’ve ever dealt with — even if you were one yourself. Because of the culture that we have today there is a very slim margin for error in handling situations or even conversations with girls and young ladies.Take some time to learn the facts and some great insight into the lives and hearts of our next generation.Hott Review:A while back I reviewed Five Conversations You Must Have with Your Son. It was a great book but not nearly as scary as this one. Maybe it’s because the conversations we’re to have with are sons aren’t as heartbreaking, I don’t know, but this book really shook me. I don’t think I made it through a page of this book without highlighting something and sharing it on facebook. I don’t know why things are so much worse than they were when I was a teen/preteen but I know that they are. Even in private schools with ‘good Christian kids’ not everyone has the same morals, standards, or even feelings about what constitutes right and wrong.I’ll be purchasing a physical copy of this book to loan out to my friends and using my digital copy as a daily resource and reminder. I also think that reading through some of these stats at prayer time would be great guidance. Vicki Courtney has a lot of helpful and important things to say about the subjects she covers in this book and it is very clear that she is a mom who is engaged with the reality of the modern world.In short the five conversations involve:1. You are more than the sum of your parts.2. Don't be in such a hurry to grow up.3. Sex is great and worth the wait.4. It's OK to dream about marriage and motherhood.5. Girls gone wild are a dime a dozen-dare to virtuous.Each section contains an overview of everything in that particular area young girls are fed by popular culture and then moves into strategies and ways you as a mom can help them see things differently. I particularly liked that Courtney was not advocating removing them from the world, locking them up, and throwing away the key. Nor was she insisting that girls would be better off by pretending they live in Little House on the Prairie.(Those days are gone folks. No bringing them back. Thank God.) These are all conversations I had started with my daughter prior to reading the book, but I found the information and strategies for conversations as she gets older to be incredibly helpful.My husband is actually interested in reading it now that I'm done. He had seen it on our bed, flipped through it, and said he felt fathers should be having these conversations too and he wanted to see what she had to say.
What do You think about Five Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter (2008)?
Every parent, grandparent, aunt, anyone who is raising a girl needs to read this book.
—Johnny
Did this in a Bible Study... Amazing book and study!! Must do if you have girls!
—fiV4
4.5 stars. Very worthy book to read for anyone that has a duaghter.
—Hamza
