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Many fathers complain that their teenage daughters won’t talk to them. They’re usually wrong. It’s just that these fathers have discouraged their daughters from talking to them. Daughters won’t talk if they know the result will be only constant reprimand and correction. Daughters want their fathers to listen while they unravel their own tangled feelings and beliefs. If a daughter can trust her dad to listen, she will come to him again and again to talk.
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This echoes portions we’ve read in It’s (Not That) Complicated, and there’s even a section in the back addressed specifically to dads that discusses this. It encourages girls to approach their fathers…
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
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