Your daughter needs the best of who you are: your strength, your courage, your fearlessness. She needs your empathy, assertiveness, and self-confidence. She needs you.
Our daughters need the support that only fathers can provide - and if you are willing to guide your daughter, to stand between her and a toxic culture, to take her to a healthier place, your rewards will be unmatched. You will experience the love and adoration that can come only from a daughter. You will a feel pride, satisfaction, and joy that, satisfaction, and joy that you can know nowhere else.
Daughters are never lukewarm in the presence of their fathers., They might take their mothers for granted, but not you. They light up-or they cry. They watch you intensely. They hang on your words. They hope for your attention, and they wait for it in frustration-or in despair. They need a gesture of approval, a nod of encouragement, or even simple eye contact to let them know you care and are willing to help.
When she's in your company, your daughter tries harder to excel. When you teach her, she learns more rapidly. When you guide her, she gains confidence. If you fully understood just how profoundly you can influence your daughter's life, you would be terrified, overwhelmed, or both. Boyfriends, brothers, even husbands can't shape her character the way you do. You will influence her entire life because she gives you an authority she gives no other man.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
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