What a Girl Needs from Her Mom

Loved it. Highly recommend. God bless the author.

I bought this when my daughter was 6. I needed something to help guide me because my mother had passed before I even got married, I never got any motherly advice. I was having a hard time understanding my daughter’s emotions and actions, and I did not like the way I was handling myself as a parent. This book changed everything for me. It helped me understand her actions and emotions. I was able to tweak a few things about myself. We now have THE very best relationship! She is now 11 and I need to reread the other parts of this book that are applicable!

I love this book. It relates so well with me and my experience I've had with my ten year old. I have no regrets buying this book and will be purchasing one for my sister along with the other one for "sons" as a Mother's Day gift.

I love this book. This author writes sensibly but from the heart. I appreciate that she uses many stories from different women and not just her own parenting narrative. The books covers larger themes of being mindful as well as practical suggestions such as helping your daughter clean, organize, and decorate her room as quality time. I look forward to reading her book about what a son needs as well. Also, I am not Christian and did not feel turned off by her writings, which do refer to God and Christianity.

As a mother of two daughters, one who is currently in her difficult teenage years, when I saw this book I knew it was something I wanted to read. Honestly, this book should be required reading for anyone who has daughters – they should put a copy of it in your gift bag at the hospital upon birth of said daughter (there’s a second book for mother’s of boys as well).Let’s face it – when you bring home that little bundle of sweetness wrapped up in a pink blanket, you think it’s going to be easy. Boys are the hard ones – those rambunctious tornados who can’t sit still for a moment. The truth is, girls can be just as difficult as boys are but on a totally different level. Boys are difficult because of their curiosity and adventurism; girls are difficult because of their need for social interaction and because of their emotions.Cheri Fuller does a great job of providing insight into the mother/daughter relationship as well as walking the reader step by step through the many perils of raising a daughter. She also pinpoints the many ways we as mother's fail our daughters. As she does so, she weaves in humor and stories of her own mistakes and situations in raising her own daughter as well as those of other families. She points out how things are much different now then when many of us were young girls and what mothers really need to be aware of in this jungle of the technological age.The book is divided up into 14 points of interest as to what we need to be for our daughters. Each of these points are covered in entirety in its own chapter, which makes a great place to go if you bought this book to pinpoint one particular are to work on.. Some of the topics that are covered are : Being a mom who is present and engaged, being a mom who encourages and builds confidence, being a mom who prays for her daughter, being a mom who is a good role model, being a mom who helps develops a daughter of character, and being a mom who listens with her heart.The book is far from being a dry textbook and really connects with the readers heart. Each chapter concludes with questions for journaling to dig deeper into your thoughts and to provide a moment of self reflection in your own mother/daughter relationship.Over all, I found this to be a great book for any mother to read, regardless to the age of her daughter. My oldest daughter and I have a pretty good relationship, however I found much information here that I can bring into our relationship to make it not a “pretty good” but a strong connection that will endure the years. It will also help me to avoid many of the same mistakes that I made in my relationship with my oldest daughter when it comes to my youngest daughter.Read it early on when your daughters are young to avoid much of the emotional conflict that comes when they get old. Read it when your daughters are older in order to lesson that conflict and rebuild the mother/daughter relationship that has might have been damaged.I would give this book a 4 out of 5.I received a copy of this book from Bethany House Publishing in exchange for an honest review. The thoughts expressed here are my own.

Wonderful book. Full of insight, perspective, and Godly advice and suggestions. Allows you to really be able to think and self reflect on being a parent, and what you can do for your daughter(s) as well as the whole family.

in this day and age of social media and electronics, this is a great read for mom's looking for ways to bond with their daughters. Put your phone down, pay attention, and spend some time together away from the glare of a screen.

Loved this book!! When I purchased it I was not aware that it was a workbook type book. I absolutely plan on re-reading this one and completing the small homework bits.