Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: The 30-Day Challenge

Dr. Meg Meeker issues fathers thirty days of challenges to help strengthen their relationships with their daughters.

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: The 30-Day Challenge is the highly anticipated follow-up companion to the national bestseller, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Dr. Meg Meeker.

The 30-Day Challenge takes readers through thirty practical father-daughter activities, meant to strengthen dads in their parenting roles, while also creating honest and thriving relationships. With twenty-five years’ experience as a pediatrician, Dr. Meeker combines her expertise and wisdom with warmth and humor to make this the perfect guide for dads to take the Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters experience to the next level.

The 30-Day Challenge offers practical suggestions for dads to spend uninterrupted, scheduled time with their daughters, including:

• Taking her on a date, dancing, or into nature
• Taking her to work or teaching her to handle money responsibly
• Doing an art project or planting a garden together
• Treating her mother well

Reflection questions help readers examine where they are as a dad right now and where they would like to be this time next year. Checklists with important reminders help the reader commit to following through and adequately preparing for the challenges. Challenges can be adapted from the simple to the involved, depending on time availability, comfort levels, and the daughter’s age.

Unlike other parenting how-to books, The 30-Day Challenge becomes a cherished handbook as dads and their girls evolve in their father and daughter roles. The 30-Day Challenge will equip dads to answer the call to become engaged and intentional fathers.

The Ten Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity

The biggest book yet from Dr. Meg Meeker, the author of the paperback hit Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, focuses on Dr. Meg’s years of expertise with mothers, and what she’s learned about creating new, healthy emotional habits that will vastly improve women’s lives.

Friendship. Simplicity. Love. Value. Faith. Solitude. Money. Fear. Hope. Purpose. Dr. Meg Meeker has seen mothers struggle with these ten issues for the past twenty-five years, and it has become her passion to help them live less stressful, happier and more fulfilling lives. Her goal in writing The Ten Habits of Happy Mothers is to show women how to reduce loneliness, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem by inspiring them to embrace more positive emotions and habits. Using inspirational stories and specific action plans, Dr. Meg shows mothers how they can live more simply, learn to make time for solitude, understand their value as mothers, embrace healthy friendships, confront their fears, seek hope, find their spiritual center, reconcile their relationships with money, and learn to live boldly and deliberately.

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Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

What are little boys made of? It used to be frogs, snails, and puppy dog tails, but today it is MTV, ADD, and STDs. So how do parents raise their sons to be respectful and responsible young men despite a toxic culture that relentlessly undermines masculine virtues such as moral strength, self-restraint, and respect for women? By letting boys be boys. Dr. Meg Meeker, bestselling author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, follows up her success with Boys Should Be Boys–a guide for parents on how to raise a strong son in these turbulent times. Taking readers on a journey from boyhood to manhood, Boys Should Be Boys delves into the mind, heart, and spirit of boys, showing parents how they can make a difference between the boy their son is and the man he will become. “Boys will be boys”—Dr.Meeker shows why it is not just an expression, it’s a necessity.

Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

The most important person in a young girl’s life? Her father. That’s right-and teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker has the data and clinical experience to prove it. After more than twenty years of counseling girls, she knows that fathers, more than anyone else, set the course for their daughters’ lives. Now Dr. Meg, author of the critically acclaimed Epidemic: How Teen Sex Is Killing Our Kids, shows you how to strengthen-or rebuild-your bond with your daughter, and how to use it to shape her life, and yours, for the better. Directly challenging the feminist attack on traditional masculinity, Dr. Meg demonstrates that the most important factor for girls growing up into confident, well-adjusted women is a strong father with conservative values. To have one, she shows, is the best protection against eating disorders, failure in school, STDs, unwed pregnancy, and drug or alcohol abuse; and the best predictor of academic achievement, successful marriage, and a satisfying emotional life.