100 Great Lessons to Teach Your Daughter
At our girls-only summer camp, we try to facilitate an environment where girls can maximize their growth and development through lessons. Author Lisa-Jo Baker created a fantastic list of things she would like to teach her daughter and shared it online. This list of values, concepts, and fun stuff can help you facilitate your own daughter’s solid foundation for her development as she undertakes her life’s journey. From body image to relationship advice, Baker covers it all in this list of 100 notable lessons. See the whole list at this link.
Our favorites are below:
- Beauty is a state of mind, not a state of body.
- The benefit of the doubt is sometimes the best gift we can give our friends.
- The world needs your point of view.
- Your body is strong and capable of more than you can imagine right now.
- Music makes everything better.
- Nothing you tell me will ever make me want to stop hearing from you.
- We need your story.
- Words can build bridges between people.
- Home is not where we live but who we love.
- Your name holds a special meaning for us.
- Inevitably I will splinter your heart. But we will tweeze it out together.
- Good girls aren’t boring.
- The best way never to worry about anyone gossiping about you is never to gossip about anybody.
- Saying sorry first is a sign of strength not a weakness.
- I’m on your side; especially on the days when it doesn’t feel like it.
- Always fight fair. But don’t be afraid to fight.
- Go big even if it means failing big. Especially then.
- Be the friend you wish you had.
- You can’t control what others think about you. Let it go.
- Don’t just Instagram your life. Live it.
- Don’t be afraid of a broken heart.
- Don’t be afraid to be foolish.
- Real life is always better than online.
- If it makes you feel uncomfortable, don’t do it, wear it or say it.
- You’re the most brave when you’re the most scared and keep going anyway.