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About Elementary School Girls

We often think (and the world often tells us) that raising girls is women’s work, especially during a daughter’s younger years. It is women’s work—but it is also men’s work.

Every father and stepfather can make a huge difference in his daughter's life. A father is the first man his daughter knows. With that potent position of “first man” comes the ability to set the norm of manliness for her—a norm that ultimately can be stronger than what anyone else tells her. When we truly listen to our daughters, we help reduce the odds that our girls will be caught in a cultural straight-jacket that limits her options and behavior because of her gender. We can fight the effects of the gender straight-jacket by never requiring or expecting our daughters to wear it when they are with us – and thus helping her feel a freedom she may not have elsewhere.

Free Articles About Elementary School Girls

• The Influence of Your Father
• Father’s Perspective On:
  • Playing Dolls
  • She’s Not Made of Porcelain
• Five Hurdles for Fathers
• Listen, Listen and Listen Some More
• Why Dads & Daughters Supports Title IX

Free Resources

• Ten Tips for Dads with Daughters / Spanish version
• Ten Tips for Live-Away Dads / Spanish version
• DADs Quiz – How Well Am I Doing as My Daughter’s Father? / Spanish version

Other Resources

• DadTalk – a forum for conversation among fathers, step-fathers, grandfathers and other father figures of daughters, regardless of marital status, age, and whether the parent lives with or away from the child. The group is pro-female and discusses the joys and challenges of fathering daughters in today's world.
• New Moon - A magazine written for girls by girls ages 8 to 14, New Moon is honest talk and inspiration from girls around the world.  It's a place where your daughters can go to speak her mind - whether she wants to sound off about the pressures of school and friends or share her dream of being a doctor.