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her life. Psychologists have found that mothers and fathers play complementary roles with daughters; mothers make girls SECURE, but dads give them SELF-ESTEEM. A bad mistake some dads make, especially dads who are moneyrich but time-poor, is to treat their daughters like princesses. They buy her expensive gifts and let her have money without earning it. This leads to a very negative result, a grown-up girl with an emotional age of two. The Jews have a very interesting saying: What do you give your wife? What she wants or what you can afford? (The answer is at the bottom.) Answer: What her father made her used to. Steve Biddulph, Raising Girls, and books by Robert Bly Marius 2013 December 2013/ January 2014 • •19