Raising Girls, By: Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff
Raising Girls
By: Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff
Zondervan; Annotated edition (May 13, 2007)
256 pages
I decided to pick up this book after Sissy Goff and David Thomas spoke at my church last year. If I understand it all, Melissa, David, and Sissy — along with a number of other staff — all work at a counseling office in Nashville, TN. Raising Girls was a great insight into the life stages of growing girls and what they are going through both metabolically and emotionally. What can you do as a parent to help? And finally, what does the research show? As a dad, this was helpful insight. Check out more of Melissa, David, and Sissy at their website, Raising Boys And Girls.
Two of my favorite quotes:
“Point out her gentleness. Tell her you’re proud when she has written something well or shown someone kindness — and tell her friends, too, when you see things in them. It’s tragic how many girls don’t have an admirer.”
“We know a father who understands the fairy tale phenomenon. He tells an alternative version to his three-year-old daughter that ends something like this: “Cinderella and the Prince courted for a year and became very good friends. Then they married. They lived a very simple life and worked for social-justice issues to end the oppression of the poor. They didn’t live happily ever after, but they did learn to love each other deeply . . .” He also tells her how Cinderella traded in her glass slippers for hiking boots so that she and the Prince could hike all over the country.”
Originally published at Sterling Terrell.
