I posted the following in October 2006 … and am reposting it as Father’s Day is celebrated tomorrow …

This is a great series by Columnist Doug Giles:

Raising Girls That Pimps and Thugs Will Hate, Part 1
Raising Girls That Pimps and Thugs Will Hate, Part 2
Raising Girls That Pimps and Thugs Will Hate, Part 3

Some of my favorite excerpts:

Hey sperm donor: if you bring a little girl into this world, then it is your job to make certain she’s grounded. That’s right, Pappy . . . you are the principal player in keeping your young woman from being the next Anna Nicole Smith.

1. Teach Them How to Fight.
2. Teach Them How to Shoot Guns.
3. Teach Them How Sense BS.
4. Teach Them How to Rebel.
5. Teach Them How to Be Classy (That’s mostly my wife’s job.)
6. Teach Them to Despise Anti-Intellectualism.
7. Teach Them to Be Visionaries.
8. Teach Them How to Party.
9. Teach Them the Value of Hard Work.
10. Teach Them the Importance of Traditional Convictions.

Raising girls that rock isn’t rocket science. So relax, Dad. You don’t have to start watching Oprah, Rachel Ray or the Bravo Channel in order to assist your girl. Simply let loose your natural, masculine instincts in their provisional and protective qualities on your little lady.

Nice dad, if you’re going to send your daughter to a state run university, then you’ve got to teach your lass to not just sit there in class being a good girl and taking whatever the secular “progressives” shove down her throat. You must teach to her to deftly defy defunct dogmas and not turn a blonde eye to bad ideas.

And dad, don’t pass spiritual training off to your wife. She’s only part of your girl’s spiritual picture.

One other part that I like is:

Dad, provide your girl with a killer library covering a variety of topics. Start with the easy to read version of the Bible. Then get her everything R.C. Sproul’s written on Theology. After that, line the shelves with biographies of productive world shakers. Then get a good tome that overviews the major philosophers/philosophies. In addition, stack her shelves with world history books and the history of the West. Last but not least, stock the Classics.

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I think Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and perhaps Frank Sheed might be a stronger replacement for Sproul, although I don’t take great exception to Sproul. For Catholics, certainly those other writers would provide a more sound theological base.