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Excellent, May 25, 2009
This review is from: She Still Calls Me Daddy: Building a New Relationship with Your Daughter After You Walk Her Down the Aisle (Hardcover)
If you are a father (actually it doesn't matter whether you are a father or mother), you know how difficult it is to anticipate your daughter growing up and leaving the immediate family unit.
It is even more difficult when the time finally arrives for her to walk down the isle and take the hand of a virtual stranger. You may feel you are losing her forever.
This book gives a father/parent the tools to cope with the inevitable feelings of loss and shows one how to go about the blending of two families--the one she is leaving and the one she is forming.
Families need not feel torn apart by marriages. As a father, with experience along these lines, the author gives positive steps toward acceptance and suggests ways fathers can go through the process of "giving away" one's daughter and growing into solid extended relationships.
We all know that adjustments, for all parties, is tricky business, but when you read this book and take the steps suggested by Robert Wolgemuth, you will have the means and grace by which to travel the prickly path.
You will no doubt find this Christian book comforting and inspirational.
The author has written many other books, including "She Calls Me Daddy."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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For Parents (Moms & Dads) of Married Daughters, May 27, 2009
This review is from: She Still Calls Me Daddy: Building a New Relationship with Your Daughter After You Walk Her Down the Aisle (Hardcover)
As the father of an adult married daughter I was eager to read this follow-up by Wolgemuth of his earlier book - She Calls Me Daddy. With my daughter I lead the pre-marital counseling, gave her away, and conducted the ceremony! It's often difficult for Dad's to give their `princess' away to a young man who is practically a stranger! The potential exists for there to be tension, conflict, and misunderstanding. I greatly appreciated Wolgemuth's willingness to tackle these potential relational landmines between dad's and their married daughters and son-in-laws with clarity and humor. Chapter 6 "Discipline: The Hard Work of Letting Go" was especially helpful to me. It caused me to examine whether or not the gifts we give them come with strings attached. Most Dads will see themselves on these pages. You might wipe away a tear or two. You will definitely laugh - especially as the author describes Christmas in his childhood home!
I plan to have all of my "Dad's with daughters" colleagues read this book as their daughters draw ever closer to marriage. I no sooner finished the last page when my wife began to read the book for herself. She suggested that it might be good for our son-in-law to read it too, so that he might gain some insight into the father-daughter relationship.
(Joe Donaldson is a member of Thomas Nelson's Book Review Blogger program and include this link: http://brb.thomasnelson.com/)
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Great for Father and Daughter, May 27, 2009
This review is from: She Still Calls Me Daddy: Building a New Relationship with Your Daughter After You Walk Her Down the Aisle (Hardcover)
This was a delightful book dealing in a very touchy subject, how Daddy deals with his little girl after she is a wife. While she is still his daughter she is also an adult and she will look to her husband for the support she once depended on her father for. Robert Wolgemuth suggests using seven steps of protection, conversation, affection, discipline, laughter, faith, and conduct do deal with this new woman.
Wolgemuth tells that Dad needs to focus on building a new relationship with his daughter, one of support but not meddling. Dad needs to understand his daughter is an adult and she and her husband make the decisions. He is there to be supportive. Dad also needs to become a friend to the new husband, so the young man can feel comfortable trusting in him.
This book was wonderful because it gives simple, logical steps for Dad to follow. Also, I enjoyed reading it as a new bride. He hits on the things daughters want to tell Dad but don't know how. That they still love Dad, but they aren't a little girl anymore and they want his support and his trust in believing they know what to do
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