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    A Daughter's Book of Secrets: Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home
    A Daughter's Book of Secrets: Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home
    A Daughter's Book of Secrets: Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home
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    A Daughter's Book of Secrets: Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home

    By Robin K Johnson, Roger S. Nam and Deborah Koehn Lloyd

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    A father should be the man by which all other men are measured in the eyes of his daughter.

    This book is designed to open up discussions between fathers and daughters on the cusp of becoming adults. Too often meaningful conversations between fathers and daughters break down and falter for lack of a focus on the simple things in life. Small conversations, which continually bolster the self-esteem and self-efficacy of the young woman leaving home, may create a space that will allow the relationship between the father and his daughter to remain intact after she has left the home. Robin K. Johnson's experiences with his seven daughters have given him insight into what leads to the disconnect between a father and daughter when she begins to step into womanhood, leaving the image of ''daddy's little girl'' behind.

    A Daughter's Book of Secrets contains vital information that a father should impart to his daughter. It also opens up areas in which some fathers fear to tread, but where they may meet their daughters as they enter into adulthood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJul 26, 2016
    ISBN9781498292160
    A Daughter's Book of Secrets: Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home
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    Robin K Johnson

    Robin K Johnson is the humble husband/father of seven beautiful daughters and one son. His hobby / talent is writing amusing and emotional short stories that he passes onto his children and their friends. Johnson is a gifted speaker and teacher of life application skills classes for youth and young adults in his community, which takes place weekly.Johnson holds degrees in Business Management, Psychology and a Masters in Divinity, which he states adds zest into the development of the character personalities and the background environment of each story.

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    A Daughter's Book of Secrets - Robin K Johnson

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    A Daughter’s Book of Secrets

    Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home

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    A Daughter’s Book of Secrets

    Things a Dad Should Tell His Daughter before She Leaves Home

    Copyright © 2016 Robin K. Johnson. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

    Resource Publications

    An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

    199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

    Eugene, OR 97401

    www.wipfandstock.com

    paperback isbn: 978-1-4982-9215-3

    hardcover isbn: 978-1-4982-9217-7

    ebook isbn: 978-1-4982-9216-0

    Manufactured in the U.S.A. December 14, 2016

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Foreword by Roger S. Nam

    Foreword by Deborah Koehn Loyd

    You Are My Flower

    The Boyfriend / Partner Affect

    Dadisms

    Missing Church? Not a Problem

    To all my daughters: Chrishanda, Leah, Jesika-Dyann, Judietta, Jenifer, Amber Rae, Cailyn, Mikkel, Rebekah, Melissa, and Jaleesa

    To the staff and volunteers of Bay Area Turning Point Webster, Texas

    —YOU LADIES INSPIRE ME

    Foreword

    Is there a life experience more beautifully traumatic than a father watching his children grow up?

    The transition typically happens over a long period. A newborn daughter may enjoy the tight swaddle of her father, but then over the years, celebrated milestones will begin a process of separation: first steps, first words (and thus first spoken opinions like Mine!) The child goes to kindergarten. A friend invites her for a sleepover. Eventually, she is riding her own bike to soccer practice, or playing the flute on stage by herself and dad is limited to the role of spectator. Puberty transforms the relationship with dad in both exciting and uncomfortable ways. At some time, love and dating enter the picture, bringing fathers to entire new levels of protective instincts.

    And then suddenly, in cruel brevity, a father’s eighteen-year dance of nurturing independence culminates in this young girl becoming a woman and the mundane parts of that independence often bring lots of anxiety to poor dad. Many dads have held back tears while helping their daughter move into a new dorm, new apartment, new life.

    Robin’s words represent all that fathers want to give to their daughters. He covers the practical advice from car maintenance to apartment safety precautions. He even ventures to areas of hygiene and dropping kids off at the pool, a conversation most often avoided by teenage daughters. But after this pragmatic advice, Robin focuses on a set of spiritual principals, based on biblical texts. He encourages his daughters to consider the wisdom of Scriptures and to let these texts guide and protect in ways that he can no longer do.

    I remember Robin in my biblical studies classes, as he learned historical critical approaches to biblical texts and as he worked on exegetical assignments. He was interested in biblical interpretation and contexts, but I most remember how so much of his learning was tied to his own self-identity as a father.

    I believe that this book is a reflex of Robin’s own experience as a theology student and father. As I read his words, I imagine him in his home, surrounded by pictures of his children, recalling both pride and regret as a father. I imagine that Robin’s writing of this book was therapeutic in that by giving these words to his daughters, he is still with them, wherever they go in this world. Yes, perhaps he wrote this for himself and for dads around the world.

    It is a message written through a labor of love to be shared with others.

    Dr. Roger S. Nam, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Biblical Studies

    George Fox Evangelical Seminary

    Foreword

    On the desktop of my computer lies a file called The Wisdom of Dad. This file holds a collection of cartoons, pithy sayings, and sage advice from my father. It is evidence of his deep love for me, usually in comic form. I click on the file every now and then and as I read I can hear his voice, a voice that has saved me from disaster so many times. It is a voice that I ignore at my own peril. In my office there is another bit of evidence of my father, a file labeled Communications. This file holds bits and pieces of hand written love sent through the mail over the span of my lifetime, and they are precious to me. When I need to be reminded of who I am, my father’s words pull me back to center. How often I have wished for a compilation of these words, along with the many that were spoken yet never written.

    A father has the power to hold a daughter in a way that no one else can, not even a mother or a good husband. The words of a father are creative. His words have the potential to spark life or cause death in the soul of his daughter and therefore must be lovingly thought out and carefully expressed. One way or the other, they will remain with her forever.

    Robin K. Johnson brings his love, compassion, and wisdom to life for his daughters in A DAUGHTERS BOOK OF SECRETS.

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