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    Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter
    Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter
    Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter
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    Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter

    By Bob Grossmann and Maya Grossmann

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    Life's Lessons from a Father to his Daughter uses twenty-four stories, pictures and artwork to help teach our children life's lessons with the aim of helping our children learn to make good decision-making skills. Decision-making skills are often not well taught or integrated into a strong sense of personal philosophy. Human nature can be impulsive.

    The use of stories (real life or metaphors) to pass on life lessons from one generation to another is at the core of our oral and written traditions. Parents can help to pass on this information as a creative way to install core values, help reduce the chance of mishap, and enhance lifelong success.

    Part of the challenge is establishing a dialogue that allows worldviews to be discussed: both the commonalties and the differences. Perhaps part of the failure to achieve a sustained dialogue is that we as parents wait too long to start the dialogue.

    Part of the challenge, too, is that the lessons have different levels of meaning as we age. So Life's Lessons from a Father to his Daughter was written to have meaning at the different stages of life: in one's mid-teens, mid-twenties, and again in mid-life. Value exists in the stories being real. Non-fiction can carry more weight. Children need to learn early that their parents continue to go through what they are experiencing. We, too, make mistakes, that we try and fail, and we are both individuals and members of larger communities.

    All the increasing access to information may not make decision-making easier. Greater discrimination and better choices will be essential. So, read the vignettes with your children and see where the discussion goes. Be sure to have a few good laughs along the way! Life's Lessons from a Father to his Daughter is a tool to help parents communicate with their children by providing a context for parents to add their own personal stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMay 21, 2003
    ISBN9781466953918
    Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter
    Author

    Bob Grossmann

    Bob Grossmann is a local artist and writer in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Grossmann received his doctorate degree from the University of Hawaii in political science and currently is raising funds to sponsor after school art programs for intermediate and high school students. He has lived and worked in France, Italy, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and West Africa. His policy work and writing stresses the need for teaching decision-making skills that are based on the development of a strong personal philosophy. Dr. Grossmann's twenty years of teaching and community service, primarily in the area of public health and biological resources, has incorporated community empowerment, ethics and social responsibility. His life's experiences shared through the book's stories share a broad cultural viewpoint. He is married to Dr. Geri Marullo, who was the CEO of the American Nurses Association in Washington, D.C. and currently serves as the President & CEO of Child and Family Service (a private, non-profit human service organization in Hawaii). Our greatest gift was the adoption of our daughter, Maya Makana, in 1993. She is an aspiring marine biologist and veterinarian.

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      Life's Lessons from a Father to His Daughter - Bob Grossmann

      Life’s Lessons 

      from a Father 

      to his Daughter

      Written by 

      Bob Grossmann, Ph.D.

      Artwork by 

      Maya Grossmann

      ©

      Copyright 2003 Bob Grossmann. All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Grossmann, Bob, 1953-

           Life’s lessons from a father to his daughter / Bob Grossmann.

      ISBN 978-1-4120-0260-8 (softcover)

      ISBN 978-1-4669-5391-8 (ebook)

           1. Decision making in children.   2. Child rearing.    3. Fathers and daughters. I. Title.

      BF723.D34G7 6 2003    649’.7   C2003-902383-4

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      This book was published on-demand in cooperation with Trafford Publishing.

      On-demand publishing is a unique process and service of making a book available for retail sale to the public taking advantage of on-demand manufacturing and Internet marketing. On-demand publishing includes promotions, retail sales, manufacturing, order fulfilment, accounting and collecting royalties on behalf of the author.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Humility Versus Humiliation

      Traveling Light: An Approach To Simplify Life

      Being A Real Daddy

      Writing Can Be Joyful; Be Willing to Share Your Thoughts

      Risk Taking: When To & When Not To? That Is The Question

      Keeping One’s Creative Spirit Alive

      Ingredients That Help Build Quality Into Life

      You Need To Know When To Ask For Help

      The Difference Between Competition & Self-Exploration

      Dimensions Of Assertiveness

      Teaching Versus Lecturing

      Sharing One’s Gifts With Others

      Always Work With Something You Love, Even If Not In Your Job Description

      Facing Life’s Challenge Of Achieving Financial Security

      Learning The Art Of Conversation

      Learn To Pace Yourself To Avoid Burnout

      Speaking One’s Mind

      Doing Your Best Work Versus Striving For Perfection

      Being Your Own Best Friend

      The Difference Between Good & Bad Stress

      Helping Your Dad Learn Life Lessons, Too

      Compensation, Compassion, & Caring Can Spring from Misfortune

      Knowing When & How To Extricate Yourself From Situations You Shouldn’t Be In & Really Didn’t Want To Be In

      Learning To Die With Grace & Dignity

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgements

      My sincere thanks to my brothers John & Jim who helped hone my sense of humor; my mom and dad for their continued guidance, my friends Jonathan Scheuer for his editorial comments and Ingunn Ovretveit for giving me the final confidence to publish by saying that she stayed up into the wee hours to finish reading the stories and then passed them along to her teenage son.

      I would like to warmly thank Maggie Kunkel who gave both spirit and a sense of fun to the graphic design and Cynthia Lowe, for her excellent proofreading skills. Cover photo of Maya taken by Geri Marullo. Background photo by KunkelWorks.

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      Dedication

      I dedicate this book both to my daughter who taught me a deeper sense of love and to Maya’s mother, my wife Geri Marullo, who assures that our household never has a dull moment!

      Introduction

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      Why is it such a challenge to teach our children the major life lessons without their having to go through the pain of each lesson themselves? One reason is that good decision-making skills are often not well taught, or integrated into a strong sense of personal philosophy. Human nature can be impulsive. Sometimes, too, one can just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

      The use of stories (real life or metaphors) to pass on life lessons from one generation to another is at the core of our oral and written traditions. Parents can help to pass on this information as a creative way to install core values, help reduce the chance of mishap, and enhance lifelong success.

      Part of the challenge is establishing a dialogue that allows worldviews to be discussed: both the commonalties and the differences. Perhaps part of the failure to achieve a sustained dialogue is that we as parents wait too long to start the dialogue. I remember that I started talking with my daughter about the health impacts of smoking when she was not even two years old. Media images had already taught her to puff on something pretending to be smoking, even before she knew what smoking was all about. She knew a few years later that both her grandfather and great-grandfather had died from the habit.

      Part of the challenge, too, is that the lessons have different levels of meaning as we age. So Life’s Lessons from a Father to his Daughter was written to have meaning

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