Best way dads can teach daughters how they should be treated

Best-selling parenting author, Harry H Harrison Jr., shares advice for dads on the best way to teach their daughters how they should be treated
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Best way dads can teach daughters how they should be treated

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The very best thing a dad can do for his daughter is be a good husband. And I'm talking about being a good husband not to just his wife but to his ex-wife, because how a man treats a woman is the way his daughter will expect to be treated. She's watching all the time. She's watching to see if dad runs around on her. She's watching to see if dad is mean to his wife. She's watching to see if he talks bad about her, if he's cruel to her, if he abuses her. And she's learning. She's learning through experience this is the way a woman should be treated. And this such an important lesson for dads to understand is that they are teaching their daughters what to look for in a man. And this is a lesson that you see perpetrated. This is why daughters of child abuse marry men that abuse them. This is what they've learned to expect for in a man. The other thing a dad should do for his daughter is give her a sense of adventure. This is what the importance of a father is. Take her to the baseball games. Take her to the soccer games. Take her to the hockey games. Expand her world. Push her out a little bit. Moms are going to be protective. Dads are the ones that try and push children out of the next. And to impart in his child a sense of adventure is a wonderful thing a father can do. A girl needs a father in her life. She will find a man in her life. And it may not be the man she should find. But she will find a man.

Best-selling parenting author, Harry H Harrison Jr., shares advice for dads on the best way to teach their daughters how they should be treated

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Harry H. Harrison Jr.

Best-Selling Parenting Author

Harry Harrison is the New York Times best-selling author of some of the most well known parenting books in the world.  He has appeared on television shows across the country, been interviewed on over 50 national radio programs including NPR, and is a regular contributor to websites like Dr. Laura.com, Sheknows.com, parentingpink.com, storknet.com, and sharecare.com (a collaboration between Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil).

His books aren’t the normal narrative read, but concise, sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant chunks of inspiration and advice that parents read and reread over again. He has also written two eBooks directed towards college students to guide and motivate them to earn a college degree.  Mr. Harrison and his wife, Melissa, have raised two incredible sons.

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