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melingo_wagamama 's review for:
How to Love Your Daughter
by Hila Blum
As the mother of an almost teenager, I found this book to be deeply disturbing, hitting close to some fundamental insecurities as a parent.
The book portrays a familiar daily parenting dilemma—how much can/should we do to help our children? How much is too much? When (and how?) do we let go? And when events in their life take a turn, when they make bad decisions, how do we guide them through?
The book sent me scrambling for interpretations and author insight. Hila Blum shared this on NPR: “And as a relatively new parent, I guess I was overwhelmed by what seemed like really an infinite number of daily decisions that parenting demanded. Some were really tiny. Some were enormous - but always decisions, decisions. And I was struck by the impossibility of predicting the accumulating long-term effect of all that. And I was thinking about how parents, you know, driven by emotions that they recognize to be love and by intentions that they perceive to be good and reasons that they perceive to be right - they can still sometimes arrive at doing a very wrong thing. And I was concerned by the potential of seemingly benign intentions to lead to miserable outcomes.” https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1190062467/how-to-love-your-daughter-according-to-this-author
The book portrays a familiar daily parenting dilemma—how much can/should we do to help our children? How much is too much? When (and how?) do we let go? And when events in their life take a turn, when they make bad decisions, how do we guide them through?
The book sent me scrambling for interpretations and author insight. Hila Blum shared this on NPR: “And as a relatively new parent, I guess I was overwhelmed by what seemed like really an infinite number of daily decisions that parenting demanded. Some were really tiny. Some were enormous - but always decisions, decisions. And I was struck by the impossibility of predicting the accumulating long-term effect of all that. And I was thinking about how parents, you know, driven by emotions that they recognize to be love and by intentions that they perceive to be good and reasons that they perceive to be right - they can still sometimes arrive at doing a very wrong thing. And I was concerned by the potential of seemingly benign intentions to lead to miserable outcomes.” https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1190062467/how-to-love-your-daughter-according-to-this-author