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“When you teach her always to think about other people, to put herself in their shoes, to know that everyone—her friends, neighbors, and sister and brother—is important, you’ll give her the gift of friendship and living to the fullest as a caring, social being. If you teach your daughter to be good rather than simply happy, she will become both. Teaching your daughter humility is a wonderful gift. And it can be taught only by example.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“You gently leaned over her to kiss her forehead and pulled the blankets around her shoulders. No father can adequately articulate the experience of watching his sleeping child—it must be lived. Now, imagine you are walking out of her room. Could you turn around and look at her and believe that the sum of her existence rests in a mass of cells? Certainly not. But this is exactly how a rank secularist is obliged to view his daughter. She is nothing more than a genetic product of his and her mother’s DNA. The puffing of air through her tiny chest keeps her alive. Your time with her is precious, meaningful, but purely a biological phenomenon. Her thoughts and feelings can be traced to neuronal firing in her brain. One day you will die and she will die and that will be that. Life began through the splitting and rejoining of DNA and when they stopped functioning, she did too.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“Instead of saying, “I love you because you’re so beautiful,” tell her that you love her because there is no one else in the world like her.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know

“People are valuable because they're human, not because of what they do.”
― Meg Meeker, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know