The Dads & Daughters Togetherness Guide: 54 Fun Activities to Help Build a Great Relationship

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Chapter 1: Daddy's Little Girl : Part 1
Fathers know that doing things with their daughters is important. Shared activities build trust and self-esteem, show how much dads care, and allow everyone to cut loose and have fun. But even fathers who can beat the generation and gender gaps

Chapter 1: Daddy's Little Girl : Part 2
I'm not a big fan of parents (or other adults) using 'baby talk' all the time with babies. Make funny sounds, be lyrical and musical with your voice - but also make conversation with your baby in your normal tone of voice.

Chapter 1: Daddy's Little Girl : Part 3
Let your daughter start writing down the story and, depending on her age, have her pass it over to you after she's completed a paragraph or a page. Then you take it for a paragraph or a page. Be sure you are completing entries of about the same length

Fathers know that doing things with their daughters is important. Shared activities build trust and self-esteem, show how much dads care, and allow everyone to cut loose and have fun. But even fathers who can beat the generation and gender gaps that make them feel awkward can't always dream up cool places to go or mutually enjoyable things to do. Like the coach of their favorite team, dads need a game plan, and that's exactly what Joe Kelly provides in Dads & Daughters Togetherness Guide.

Appropriate for girls of any age, the guide enables dads to grab their daughters by the hand and say "Let's go ..."

See how things are made: Take a made-in-America tour and see how everything from jumbo jets (Boeing) to chocolate kisses (Hershey's) is produced.

Bake a funny cake: She'll laugh herself silly in the kitchen making Kitty Litter Cake, a German chocolate sheet cake covered with "cat litter" (dyed, crumbled cookies) and topped with miniature Tootsie Rolls.

Take a drive to nowhere: Let the copilot navigate, and leave time for fun stops to poke around in flea markets or join a game of pickup softball for a few innings.

With dozens of other engaging activities - such as creating a daddy-daughter journal, devising secret codes, and exchanging poems - this is the ultimate rain-or-shine resource for developing wonderful parent-child rapport.

Former journalist Joe Kelly is the executive director of Dads and Daughters and father of twin adult daughters. His work has been extensively featured in the media, including NPR, CBS, ABC, People, USA Today, and the New York Times. He was awarded the 1995 Parenting Achievement Award from Parenting magazine and helped his wife, Nancy Gruver, launch New Moon, the award-winning international magazine edited by girls.

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