Joe Kelly

Looking for ways to boost your daughter’s confidence?

Dr. Margo D. Maine’s book  Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness, has simple ideas on how dads and stepdads can help in the realm of body image.

Here’s the second round of tips (I shared the first the first round here; look for more tomorrow):

Too many girls continue to worry about their body shape and appearance; no surprise, given how continually they are assaulted by cultural and marketing messages insisting that how they look is more important than who they are.

In her book Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness, Dr. Margo D. Maine PhD offers some concrete, constructive steps fathers can take to build healthy self-image (especially body image) in their daughters and stepdaughters.

Here are Margo's first few tips—I’ll share others tomorrow.