a New Book by Dr. Linda Nielsen
Publication date: August, 2008
“If this book doesn’t improve your father-daughter relationship, demand your money back and check with your doctor to see if you're still breathing. If you know a divorced dad, buy this book for him now!” Divorced father
A no-nonsense, engaging, insightful book designed for dads and adult daughters who want more from their relationship – and for anyone who cares about enriching, understanding or rebuilding father-daughter relationships. This groundbreaking book offers research and concrete advice on such questions as:
Why try to get more out of your relationship at this point in your lives?
How can you talk about “IT” – that one topic that still creates tension between you?
How can dad give advice without making his daughter mad?
How can you get your daughter to stop treating you like a banking machine?
How can you get your dad to treat you like a grown up?
How can you communicate better when you’re so different?
What can you do during the college years to avoid or resolve father-daughter problems?
How can you create a more relaxed, more meaningful relationship?
What can you do about mom’s or stepmom’s jealousy?
And as wife, how can you strengthen father-daughter relationships in your family?
What’s unique about African American daughters’ relationships with their dads?
What can you do about those difficult divorce or remarriage issues?
How can you rebuild if you’re barely speaking?
What about the millions of daughters whose fathers haven’t been in their lives?
Nielsen guides readers with eye opening research facts, tough questions, personal assignments, father-daughter activities, and self-assessment quizzes. Explaining why most relationships haven’t reached their full potential and why others have unraveled, Nielsen shows dads and daughters how to make changes now!
Dr. Linda Nielsen, nationally recognized expert on father-daughter relationships, President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, and Professor of Women’s Studies and Education at Wake Forest University has been teaching the only college course in the country on fathers and daughters since 1991. Based on two decades of working with hundreds of fathers and daughters – especially divorced dads - Nielsen summarizes cutting-edge research in clear terms and offers compelling stories about real people - including celebrities like Oprah and Hilary Clinton. With candor and humor, Nielsen exposes the half-truths, downright lies, and myths about families that prevent so many dads and daughters from having a more relaxed, more meaningful relationship.
1 comment:
I was just looking for such a book this morning! My daughter is 11 going on 25 and I'm feeling far too often like really not "getting her" and I need to. I feel foolish too because I grew up among more women than men, I am hypo-masculine (much more "female-like" than "manly-man-like") so I assumed I would comprehend this relationship far better than I do. But no dice. I'm going to find this book right now. Thanks for the blurb...
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