How to Show Your Daughter How Much You Love Her

A daughter is a delight!

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Raising a daughter is a delight, a treasure full of surprise and potential. Daughters are sweet, curious and complex. Just being around a daughter keeps a parent young at heart and inspired. There’s excitement in the house. There’s nothing as important as keeping her safe, loving her well, educating her and having fun together. Here are some ideas.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

A twinkle in your eye
Awareness that time goes by quickly when raising children

Step1

Give your daughter a cheer up gift after a really bad day.

Step2

Keep a reading lamp by her bed and buy her books. Allow her to listen to age appropriate books on tape as she falls asleep.

Step3

Go for a walk together and point out all the wonderful things that catch your eye. Splash in puddles. Twirl in the rain.

Step4

Teach her to knit a sweater, to cook her favorite meals, to use a hammer, to ride a bike and change a tire. Give her an allowance and teach her to manage money. Let her teach you.

Step5

Tell her how beautiful she is so that she will like what she sees when she looks at her image in the mirror.

Step6

Take her to a flower show and buy her a big bouquet of flowers. Buy a package of sunflower seeds and plant them in the garden.

Step7

Buy her a really good bathing suit, one that looks good on her body, and take her swimming often.

Step8

Tell her, “Dream Big.” Tell her, “You can make it happen.” Tell her, “I believe in you.”

Step9

When it’s appropriate, give her sound dating advice. Encourage her to demand respect from boys and men. Be a role model of self-respect.

Step10

Smile when she walks into the room. Laugh at her jokes. Be good-natured.

Tips & Warnings

Parenting is an honorable profession.

Resources

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Comments

Atillion said

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on 4/2/2008 I get fresh flowers for my daughter once a week (or two). She never lets me forget when they die now, and I hope she'll hold those high expectations up for any stupid boys who come nosing around in 8 or 9 more years!

ewmcguire said

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on 3/30/2008 Love the smile advice! Even though I'm a bear before coffee, I make a point to greet my kids with big smiles and big hugs first thing every morning. I want them to start the day feeling cherished.

grouch said

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on 3/29/2008 Wonderful, I was with mine alone for the first time in a long while the other day in the car. Stopped right in the middle of the highway so we could stop and smell the flowers. (There were wild deer running up and down the length of the road) Needless to say she had a ball and kept it to herself as her little secret when we picked up my son.