Talk with Her : A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters

A comprehensive guide to father-daughter communication to help dads navigate their daughters through the pre-teen and tween years up to adulthood In Talk with Her, fathers learn that “communication” with daughters doesn’t mean having “big” conversations all the time. Creating even the smallest moments of connection can build bonds.   Wolf covers nineteen fundamental topics defining a daughter’s life with information fathers need to address them with care and confidence including body positivity, gender and sexual identity, negative peer influence, academic achievement and financial literacy. For each topic, Wolf provides background knowledge, including cutting-edge research, expert perspectives, and terminology to help bring broad-ranging and often overwhelming topics into focus; goals to help focus fathers on deeper, more lasting impacts than effectively policing daughters’ everyday actions; talking points or “ins” for conversations; and specifics on what to say and what not to say.   Making a lifelong impact happens one conversation at a time. Fathers will attain communication strategies to share with their own families, with numerous  ways to reinforce important messages for daughters, whether by setting a positive example or seeking additional support for her or himself.