I'm just in blogging mode today. I guess it's because I actually have a little bit of free time on my hands. This means I have more time to actually think about life and not just drudge from one activity to another, like I must do when school is in session.
Every father should take their 14+ year old daughter to see The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. I wish that I could make all the absent fathers in the lives of the teenage girls that I counsel watch that movie with their daughters. If for one second, those fathers could get a glimpse of the pain their daughters carry. I have seen heaving sobs and questions of "What must be wrong with me?" and "Why doesn't he want me?"
What is wrong with this world?
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what about daughters you know will have a hard life and there is nothing you can do about it? how do you impact a life you know will have a very hard time?
I guess that depends on the circumstances. I tend to assume that this world is hard and everyone will have a very hard time in some way or another. The important thing is to make all children feel loved for WHO they are not what they do. Celebration of strengths and weaknesses, and learning from failures. That is vague, but so was your post. Wish I could be more explicit.
~nicole
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