Everybody that has a daughter has to cringe when they hear the horror stories coming out on news magazine type shows about how our kids keep getting more and more mature at an earlier age. I know I do. One of the biggest influences on our kids besides us parents are the other kids they hang around and spend time with. My wife and I are very picky about our daughter's friends and to this day, there are only a handful of families that we feel completely comfortable with when she is not with us. In a perfect world, if she is spending the day with a friend and another family, we'd like those parents to have the same parenting style and values that we have. The person who recommended this book to me is just such a person. Hopefully our daughters will still be close when they hit the teenage years because the lessons in this book are even more valuable then - and if they double date, I can rest assured knowing that we will be delivering the same type of speeches to the young lads who come knocking on our doors. I don't want to get into too much detail from the book. I already subscribed to a lot of the ideas that are presented and there are a few small items that I actually don't agree with 100%, but you don't have to agree with everything the author says to gain a lot of knowledge from the book. I starting reading this as soon as it was recommended to me and then halfway through, it got lost in the shuffle of the Christmas season. I recently "found" it again and finished it quickly as it's not very long at all. Anyway - the book gets my highest recommendation and it's nice to know that the dads I see the most (Chrissy Two Coats, Nova Joe, CC, 6-Mo, Doug E. Fresh & Add A Lot) have a lot of the same beliefs that I do.
