We've been using it as a place to create savings goals, budget for future purchases,
help teach our daughter about savings, and more.
In fact, good Russian mothers
always teach their daughters to be late when invited by men because any girl who knows her worth never arrives in time.
My wife and I have done a good
job teaching our daughter, now 15, that one does the right thing, simply because it's the right thing to do.
These could, for example, be books on how to be assertive (something fathers
typically teach daughters), on dealing with anxiety, and on healthy communication in a marriage.
Though no parent wants to clean up an accident from a potty training daughter, these actually
help teach your daughter to use the toilet.
If I do
n't teach my daughter how to be a good student as a toddler (I mean behavior, not knowledge), she's going to struggle in kindergarten — and maybe beyond.
I love this post by Jennifer Lambert about homeschooling items that are great to have, especially because I love
teaching my daughter at home as much as I can.
While I definitely accomplished my initial goal of keeping everyone entertained for the afternoon, I think I also stumbled on to a great exercise as far
as teaching my daughter patience with our animals and teaching our animals to listen to our toddler.
Psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman sums it up well: «Fifty Shades of
Grey teaches your daughter that pain and humiliation are erotic, and your son, that girls want a guy who controls, intimidates and threatens.»
I
love teaching my daughter to take care of her special things by entrusting her with high quality toys that she will treasure (and she does a great job!).
I didn't expect what actually happened, which is that a bunch of parents came up to shake my hand, saying things like, «Thank you so much
for teaching my daughter about that stuff.
I am
teaching my daughters math, and while I know Calculus, I can not attempt to teach them everything I know about math on day one, from basic arithmetic all the way to calculus.
(He used terms like «Heavenly Father» and «free agency,» he was a young father with lots of kids born close together, his family was from «out west,» and he was
teaching his daughter Portuguese.)
Rabbi Eliezer wrote in the first century that, «Rather should the words of the Torah be burned than entrusted to a woman...
Whoever teaches his daughter the Torah is like one who teaches her obscenity.»
When it came time for me to
teach my daughter right from wrong, I popped her tush a couple of times and found it completely ineffective.
I also chose to
teach my daughter cutesy nicknames for private parts when she was young, precisely because I knew she would use them in public.
I think the best chance you have of
teaching your daughter skills she's going to need when she goes out in the world and you're not there is to create a collaborative relationship.