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Raising Great Girls: Help for moms to raise confident, capable daughters
So, you think being a mom is just one job? A mother’s look back will tell you something different.
Hindsight: the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened. Darlene Brock understands this reality well now that the job of raising two daughters while working, traveling and juggling life is behind her. Having worked outside the home her whole adult life breaking this role of mom into individual jobs seemed to be natural. Then the discovery that there was a season for each job that she hadn’t even realized she had taken on, made it so much more doable. This book is what she learned and a how-to for those responsibilities with each chapter written in such a way that it will help a mother successfully manage the tasks ahead.
Coach: How to create the rules, strategies, and tactics, and the assurance you can do it!
Creative Counselor: Discover and nurture the uniqueness and talents within your girl.
Time Manager: Ways to determine the activities in your girl’s life while keeping your sanity.
Media Director: Successfully manage entertainment and its influence in your daughter's life.
Academic Advocate: Ways achieve her best road to education within the options available.
Professor of Gender Studies: The "must have" conversation equality between and view of gender.
Relationship Counselor: Practical advice to develop great relationships and avoid bad ones.
Sex Ed Teacher: Facts and statistics, and the real-life sex talk all girls need to have.
Financial Consultant: The tools to teach the traps and rewards of proper money management.
Security Officer: Learning when and how to provide protection as well as when not to.
Communications Specialist: Tips on how we communicate, when to speak and when not to.
In-home Demonstrator: What we do will always be more effective than what we say.
Military Strategist: The rules of engagement for your mother-daughter relationship.
Also included are three bonus chapters for dads; key roles of a father that every mom can hand over to her man.
Master Gemologist: The first man to treasure your girl, a standard for all men who follow.
Stunt Coordinator: Teach risk, safety and encouraging self-confidence.
Bodyguard: Protect your little girl and teach her how to protect herself.
Be inspired. Be encouraged. Darlene’s reassurance will make you believe it's a job you can do with grit and grace. This book is for all the imperfect moms with imperfect daughters. Perfection is not required on the road to becoming great moms who are successfully raising great girls.
Hindsight: the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened. Darlene Brock understands this reality well now that the job of raising two daughters while working, traveling and juggling life is behind her. Having worked outside the home her whole adult life breaking this role of mom into individual jobs seemed to be natural. Then the discovery that there was a season for each job that she hadn’t even realized she had taken on, made it so much more doable. This book is what she learned and a how-to for those responsibilities with each chapter written in such a way that it will help a mother successfully manage the tasks ahead.
Coach: How to create the rules, strategies, and tactics, and the assurance you can do it!
Creative Counselor: Discover and nurture the uniqueness and talents within your girl.
Time Manager: Ways to determine the activities in your girl’s life while keeping your sanity.
Media Director: Successfully manage entertainment and its influence in your daughter's life.
Academic Advocate: Ways achieve her best road to education within the options available.
Professor of Gender Studies: The "must have" conversation equality between and view of gender.
Relationship Counselor: Practical advice to develop great relationships and avoid bad ones.
Sex Ed Teacher: Facts and statistics, and the real-life sex talk all girls need to have.
Financial Consultant: The tools to teach the traps and rewards of proper money management.
Security Officer: Learning when and how to provide protection as well as when not to.
Communications Specialist: Tips on how we communicate, when to speak and when not to.
In-home Demonstrator: What we do will always be more effective than what we say.
Military Strategist: The rules of engagement for your mother-daughter relationship.
Also included are three bonus chapters for dads; key roles of a father that every mom can hand over to her man.
Master Gemologist: The first man to treasure your girl, a standard for all men who follow.
Stunt Coordinator: Teach risk, safety and encouraging self-confidence.
Bodyguard: Protect your little girl and teach her how to protect herself.
Be inspired. Be encouraged. Darlene’s reassurance will make you believe it's a job you can do with grit and grace. This book is for all the imperfect moms with imperfect daughters. Perfection is not required on the road to becoming great moms who are successfully raising great girls.
244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2018
About the author
Darlene Brock
5 books3 followersDarlene Brock. Co-Founder and President of The Grit and Grace Project, Author, and Co-Host of This Grit and Grace Life Podcast left home at 18. Her first pay your rent job was a receptionist at a prestigious law firm, which she left to live in a Christian commune. As her life pendulum swung again, she took the job of running a summer camp and conference center before spending the next 20 plus years in the music business. One to always enjoy a new adventure, Darlene once para-glided off the Bavarian Alps with her two daughters; you just can’t put this lady in a box.
It was not long after leaving home at that young age; she realized embracing grit and grace were the traits that got her through many trials and triumphs. It was this realization that led her to launch her most recent venture, The Grit and Grace Project with co-founder and husband, Dan.
In addition to the podcast, “This Grit and Grace Life,” this organization currently produce a women’s online lifestyle magazine. Every element of The Grit and Grace Project, including their book publishing affiliate, was created to remind women that true beauty is found in a woman’s strength.
As Darlene embraced grit and grace to master the challenges in her life, she became inspired to write about raising confident and capable daughters, understanding that perfection was not required. Holding to the belief that a woman’s self-confidence and strength is best gained at a young age it was her goal to arm mothers with the tools they need to complete the job of raising great (but not perfect) girls.
Darlene has been featured on the Fox & Friends morning show, Focus on the Family and Family Life Today radio programs, and multiple ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates. She has been a featured columnist for CNN and written for numerous Family oriented magazines and websites.
It was in the busyness of producing award-winning music videos, managing music groups, promoting concerts and serving as COO of ForeFront Records that Darlene raised her two daughters. This unique blend of author, mother, businesswoman, wife, and creative producer has shown her that it is indeed true, “life challenges should neither defeat nor define you.” And just so you know, she wears the tool belt in her family.
It was not long after leaving home at that young age; she realized embracing grit and grace were the traits that got her through many trials and triumphs. It was this realization that led her to launch her most recent venture, The Grit and Grace Project with co-founder and husband, Dan.
In addition to the podcast, “This Grit and Grace Life,” this organization currently produce a women’s online lifestyle magazine. Every element of The Grit and Grace Project, including their book publishing affiliate, was created to remind women that true beauty is found in a woman’s strength.
As Darlene embraced grit and grace to master the challenges in her life, she became inspired to write about raising confident and capable daughters, understanding that perfection was not required. Holding to the belief that a woman’s self-confidence and strength is best gained at a young age it was her goal to arm mothers with the tools they need to complete the job of raising great (but not perfect) girls.
Darlene has been featured on the Fox & Friends morning show, Focus on the Family and Family Life Today radio programs, and multiple ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates. She has been a featured columnist for CNN and written for numerous Family oriented magazines and websites.
It was in the busyness of producing award-winning music videos, managing music groups, promoting concerts and serving as COO of ForeFront Records that Darlene raised her two daughters. This unique blend of author, mother, businesswoman, wife, and creative producer has shown her that it is indeed true, “life challenges should neither defeat nor define you.” And just so you know, she wears the tool belt in her family.
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November 18, 2020
من با این کتابها زیاد ارتباط نمیگیرم. حس میکنم فقط جنبه تجاری دارن.
حرفهایی که خودمون میدونیم. یا من اعتماد به نفسم خیلی بالاست یا اینا زیادی پیش پا افتاده ن.
حرفهایی که خودمون میدونیم. یا من اعتماد به نفسم خیلی بالاست یا اینا زیادی پیش پا افتاده ن.
December 8, 2018
This title grabbed at me. It's what we moms of girls long for. We want to give them the skill set to become great women who cultivate what is good, beautiful, and true in their grown up lives. I yearn for them to give life to the world around them. As with most mothers, I internalize all of the ways they are not living up to this potential. Their unkind choices must reflect on me personally, right? Darlene reminded me that we are on a journey of becoming and I am mentoring my girls to greater good. They come to us in a sinful state and we must constantly show them the good God calls them too.
She has many brilliant points about standing up against culture for the hearts of our girls. Culture is calling our girls toward death and we must call them back to life. Boundaries are good and purposeful no matter who speaks against it. Darlene offers such wisdom that lines up with biblical principles. She encourages us to raise competent adults instead of craving to a society that tells you to do everything for your kids and never let them lose. Our objective is to grow them in grit and grace.
She has many brilliant points about standing up against culture for the hearts of our girls. Culture is calling our girls toward death and we must call them back to life. Boundaries are good and purposeful no matter who speaks against it. Darlene offers such wisdom that lines up with biblical principles. She encourages us to raise competent adults instead of craving to a society that tells you to do everything for your kids and never let them lose. Our objective is to grow them in grit and grace.
October 26, 2018
As with all books there is wisdom to be had, with eyes open to the possibilities I embraced the challenge and came away with a few nuggets of gold to assist me on my parenting journey.
I can appreciate a differing opinion on topics such as parenting and can see beyond my own beliefs that this book would be a good fit for some parents with similar circumstances and thought processes.
For me, as a mother raising both girls and boys and having a completely different view point this book would be a 2 star. However, disregarding my own preference I can see the value in this book for others as well as I, myself valuing the authors time and passion in both raising her girls and in spreading her message.
Overall, well written.
I wouldn't however, recommend this book, or any parenting book that is laced in beliefs as I feel every parent should come to know and accept themselves before gathering different perspectives.
Lest we lose ourselves in the information overload of current society.
I can appreciate a differing opinion on topics such as parenting and can see beyond my own beliefs that this book would be a good fit for some parents with similar circumstances and thought processes.
For me, as a mother raising both girls and boys and having a completely different view point this book would be a 2 star. However, disregarding my own preference I can see the value in this book for others as well as I, myself valuing the authors time and passion in both raising her girls and in spreading her message.
Overall, well written.
I wouldn't however, recommend this book, or any parenting book that is laced in beliefs as I feel every parent should come to know and accept themselves before gathering different perspectives.
Lest we lose ourselves in the information overload of current society.
February 1, 2020
Do not recommend. Very sexist. Not helpful. Written as a job description. I think we all know what the job of being a mother is...communications director, safety patrol, etc. I saw no connection to how this job description related to raising girls with confidence.
January 9, 2019
I found this very hard to read and boring. Maybe I’ll try again at another time but I was disappointed.
July 6, 2019
I found this book too boring... couldn’t pass second chapter....
July 3, 2020
A very unique approach to wrangle the truth that mom's wear many hats. I thoroughly enjoyed the "job descriptions" used to address each stage of motherhood. Sound wisdom laced with the humor needed to parent with grace. Both practical and tested this is safe book to add to your mothering circle of reference material. Darlene's voice is one that will help lead and guide mothers of girls.
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