A Good Dad’s Quick Reference Guide

• Engage in your daughter’s life to stay in her heart.

• Be loving, steady, and balanced.

• Your girl isn’t a boy.

• Your job: serve, protect, defend, take calculated risks, and problem-solve.

• Know and love your daughter as an individual.

• Make her feel special.

• Keep your cool.

• Balance always wins the game.

• Tell stories.

• Build your relationship.

• Stay calm.

• Side with Mama.

• Affirm instead of flaw-pick.

• Say “I love you” always and often.

• Say, “I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”

• Make a plan for reconnecting.

• Walk your talk.

• Become the kind of man you’d want your daughter to marry.

• Affirm your daughter for who she is now.

• Give her freedom both to fail and to fly.

• Fine-tune your schedule.

• Create opportunities to interact with your daughter.