Raising Daughters

The world and the church desperately need godly women; women of character; stalwart, sensible women. Such women will be the salvation of a culture that has deluded itself into thinking that a woman cannot be truly happy unless she behaves just like a man. We need women who can fill the role of complement to their husbands. We need women who will honor and esteem God-given authority instead of whining and gossiping against it. We need women who know what true chastity is and know how to wield it skillfully. Where are such women to be found?

Biology turns girls into women. But it takes more than hormones to do the work well. Our daughters must be nurtured and cared for. Affection for a girl is a fortress of security. Fathers, by showing their daughters tender affection, inculturate them for ladyhood. Parents that lavish tenderness on their girls will render their purity inviolable.

Girls must be disciplined as well. The rod cannot be made to distinguish between boyish and girlish sins. Girls, likewise, need to be well educated. We do not accomplish gentle, shame-faced feminine piety by sheltering our daughters from rigorous academics. Quite the contrary! Our girls ought to be fitted and prepared as ladies who will illumine the world with the light of true knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Finally, girls will be raised well when they are surrounded with and strongly influenced by virtuous older women in the home and in the church.

The almost constant degradation of females in our present culture, under the name of "feminism," must be stopped. The only way we will succeed in doing that is by raising a generation of young women who will treasure their virginity like rubies, who will delight themselves in their vocations as wives and mothers, and who will turn a deaf ear to the siren song of the world.

Where will we get such ladies? They are at our feet right now. They gather at our dinner tables. They are our daughters. The task of fighting cultural currents is never easy. The current is flowing strongly against this vision of how to raise girls. But the goal of beautiful and virtuous femininity is too lovely not to strive after. It is too precious not to reach. By the grace of God we can make the change. As we do, posterity will thank this generation of parents for the deposit of grace our daughters will leave behind them. The resources found below are offered to assist in that glorious work.

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Authentic Beauty
by Leslie Ludy
Upd Exp from Multnomah Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$14.99
Authentic Beauty - Going Deeper Study Guide
by Leslie Ludy
Upd Exp from Multnomah Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Beautiful Girlhood
by Karen Andreola, editor
from Heart of Dakota
for 4th-8th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$7.00 (2 in stock)
Beautiful Girlhood - Companion Guide
by Shelley Noonan & Kimberly Zach
from Pumpkin Seed Press
for 5th-8th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$10.50 $7.50 (1 in stock)
Beauty in the Heart
by Pam Forster
1st edition from Doorposts
for 5th-Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
Buddy Book
by Nancy Rue, illustrated by Lyn Boyer
from Zonderkidz
for 2nd-6th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Christian Charm Course - Student Book
by Emily Hunter
13th edition from Harvest House
for 7th-10th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$5.50 (1 in stock)
Disciplines of a Godly Woman
by Barbara Hughes
Student/Stdy Gde from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Disciplines of a Godly Woman
by Barbara Hughes
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Disciplines of a Godly Woman
by Barbara Hughes
Student/Stdy Gde from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$16.99
Education of a Daughter
by Archbishop Francois Fenelon
from Applewood Books
for Adult
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
For Instruction in Righteousness
by Pam Forster
3rd edition from Doorposts
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
For This Is Right
by Pam Forster
from Doorposts
for 7th-10th grade
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
For Young Women Only
by Lisa A. Rice, Shaunti Feldhahn
from Multnomah Books
for 9th-12th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
Forging a Strong Mother-Daughter Bond
by Leslie Vernick
from New Growth Press
for Adult
in CCEF Counseling booklets (Location: XCL-CCEF)
$2.79
Girl Talk
by Carolyn Mahaney
from Crossway Books
for 9th-Adult
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$12.99 $8.00 (3 in stock)
His Chosen Bride
by Jennifer J. Lamp
from Unknown Publisher
for Adult
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$7.00 (3 in stock)
Honor Your Father and Mother
by Pam Forster
from Doorposts
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
$12.00 $8.00 (1 in stock)
How a Man Prepares His Daughters for Life
LifeSkills For Men
by Michael Farris
from Bethany House
for Adult
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
How Do I Look?
by Susan Lutz
from New Growth Press
for 9th-Adult
in CCEF Counseling booklets (Location: XCL-CCEF)
$2.79
InCourage
by Terra A. Mattson
from Living Wholehearted Publishing
for 11th-Adult
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Joyfully at Home
by Jasmine Baucham
from Vision Forum
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$8.00 (3 in stock)
Lessons in Responsibility for Girls Level 3
Quiet Arts Series
2nd edition from Pearables
for 3rd-7th grade
in Pearables Character Curriculum (Location: BIB-CHPCC)
$13.00 (1 in stock)
Lies Young Women Believe
by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
from Moody Press
for 7th-10th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Modesty
by Martha Peace, Kent Keller
from P&R Publishing
for 7th-12th grade
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
New Christian Charm Course - Student Book
by Emily Hunter
from Harvest House
for 7th-10th grade
Pearables Home Economics for Home Schoolers Level 2
from Pearables
for 2nd-6th grade
in Home Economics Curriculum (Location: SS-HOMEC)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Pearables Home Economics for Home Schoolers Level 3
from Pearables
for 2nd-6th grade
in Home Economics Curriculum (Location: SS-HOMEC)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Plants Grown Up & Polished Cornerstones - CD-ROM
from Doorposts
for Nursury-12th grade
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
Polished Cornerstones
by Pam Forster
2nd edition from Doorposts
for All grades
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
$48.00
Polished Cornerstones Memory Verses
from Doorposts
for Nursery-4th grade
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
Raising Maidens of Virtue
by Stacy McDonald
from Books on the Path
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
Raising Maidens of Virtue
by Stacy McDonald
2nd edition from Grace & Truth Books
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Return of the Daughters - STREAMING
by Anna Sofia Botkin
from Western Conservatory of the Arts & Sciences
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
Secret Keeper
by Dannah Gresh
New Edition from Moody Press
for 9th-12th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
So Much More
by Anna Sofia & Elizabeth Botkin
from Vision Forum
for Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$14.00
The Look
by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
for 5th-10th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$5.95 $3.00 (1 in stock)
Uniquely Me Book
by Nancy Rue, illustrated by Lyn Boyer
from Zonderkidz
for 2nd-6th grade
in Raising Daughters (Location: XFA-DAU)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Unseduced and Unshaken
by Rosalie De Rosset
New Edition from Moody Press
for 10th-Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$13.99
Virtuous
by Nancy Wilson
1st edition from Canon Press
for 7th-Adult
in Biblical Womanhood (Location: XFA-WOM)
$12.00
Virtuous Woman
by Pam Forster
from Doorposts
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
Young Lady of Valor
by Pam Forster
from Doorposts
for Nursery-4th grade
in Doorposts Materials (Location: BIB-CHDP)
$4.00 $2.00 (1 in stock)