Love Her Well: 10 Ways to Find Joy and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter

by Kari Kampakis

Overview

Now an ECPA Best Seller—Kari Kampakis's Love Her Well gives moms ten practical tips for how to build strong and lasting relationships with their daughters.

For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. But as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to one of dread as moms are told, "Just wait until she's a teenager!" and handed a disheartening and too-often-true script about a daughter's teenage season of life.

Author, blogger, and mom to four daughters Kari Kampakis thinks it's time to change the narrative and mind-set that leads moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat instead of strength. Love Her Well isn't a guide to help mothers "fix" their daughters or make them behave. It's about a mom's journey, doing the heart-work necessary to love a teenager while still being a steady, supportive parent. Kari offers wisdom about how moms can:

• Choose their words and timing carefully.
• Listen and empathize with her teen's world.
• See the good, and love her for who she is.
• Take care of themselves and find a support system in the process.

By working on the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship; mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support.

Kari gives mothers hope, wisdom, and a reminder that all things are possible through God, who is the source of the guidance and clarity they need in order to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age—especially during the critical teen years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785234180
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	67,945
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kari Kampakis is an author, blogger, and national speaker from Birmingham, Alabama. Her best-selling book for moms, Love Her Well: 10 Ways to Find Joy and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter, and books for teen girls, 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know and Liked: Whose Approval Are You Living For?, have been used widely across the country for small group studies.

Kari’s work has been featured on the Today show, Today Parents, Yahoo! News, Grown & Flown, Motherly, FaithGateway, EWTN, Ann Voskamp’s blog, The Huffington Post, and other national outlets. She also hosts a podcast called Girl Mom. She and her husband, Harry, have four daughters and a dog named Lola.

Table of Contents

Note from the Author xiii

Introduction xvii

Chapter 1 Choose Your Words (and Timing) Carefully 1

Chapter 2 Listen and Empathize with Her World 17

Chapter 3 Be Her Mom 38

Chapter 4 Make Your Relationship a Priority 69

Chapter 5 See the Good, Loving Her as She Is and Where She Is 92

Chapter 6 Help Her Find Good Friends and Positive Influences 111

Chapter 7 Be Her Emotional Coach 130

Chapter 8 Enjoy Her, Laugh Often, and Have Fun 146

Chapter 9 Take Care of Yourself and Have a Support System for Hard Days 160

Chapter 10 Pray for Her and Empower Her Through Faith 180

Conclusion 193

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 203

About the Author 211

Editorial Reviews

09/01/2020

Kampakis (Liked: Whose Approval Are You Living For?) starts by sharing her own struggles with her teenage daughter. The world tells our kids what's wrong with them, but as moms it's our job is to tell them what's right, says Kampakis. She gives ideas here for how to "speak life" into your children. Social media, bullying, secrecy, sleep deprivation, hook-up culture, and binge drinking are issues that have increased hand in hand with depression in teenagers. To mold teen brains in a positive direction, the author suggests making the relationship a priority by spending one-on-one time and giving affection, seeing the good in your child even when the world doesn't, and being their emotional coach. VERDICT Kampakis's faith-based work includes many practical suggestions that will resonate with most parents of teens.

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