Gratitude Project: Day 23: Thank Goodness for the Fathers of Little Girls
October 19th 2008 03:21
Fathers have a profound impact on their daughters, shaping their abilities to love and ultimately to venture forth, physically and emotionally. At the same time, daughters both inadvertently and purposefully break down the artificial walls of masculinity that men sometimes build with a purity and power that mothers, wives, and girlfriends cannot.
Regardless of their age, daughters who have meaningful, comfortable relationships with their fathers are generally more self-confident and independent, have better relationships with men, are less depressed, have fewer eating disorders and drug or alcohol problems and achieve more in school and at work. And the easier it is for a daughter to communicate with her father, the more she enjoys being with him and the more she gets out of their relationship.
Thanks dad!
Regardless of their age, daughters who have meaningful, comfortable relationships with their fathers are generally more self-confident and independent, have better relationships with men, are less depressed, have fewer eating disorders and drug or alcohol problems and achieve more in school and at work. And the easier it is for a daughter to communicate with her father, the more she enjoys being with him and the more she gets out of their relationship.
Thanks dad!
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Well maybe there is some madness in the simplicity. So good to see you.
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Thank you so much for your kind words. It is so nice to meet your acquaintance. Thanks for stopping by, reading, and commenting.
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ah how I have missed your posts
Fathers are important people aren`t they? I never met mine before he passed away a few years ago, but my step father is the truest sense of any description of the word of Father.
Gotta love the dads!
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Thanks so much. My life has gotten in the way but I have more posts in me! Thanks for being patient.
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I can relate to everything you wrote in this post. I try to rise above it as it were and not let my rubbish relationship with my father negatively affect me...but it's a challenge. It's a real effort to charge forward with the confidence to succeed.
Thankfully Mr M is a great dad. He and our daughter have a great connection. Both love to draw and they're similar in personality too.
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I am sure that you have risen above your raising. Looks like you really learned a lesson regarding how important a father is to his daughter! Thanks for your insight!
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