Dannah Gresh - 8 Great Dates for Moms and Daughters: How to Talk About True Beauty, Cool Fashion, and…Modesty!

Praise for 8 Great Dates on true beauty, cool fashion, and modesty from moms who have completed them

8 Great Dates has given me the tools I need to verbalize some very valuable lessons. I am grateful for this guide to help me along this journey with my daughter. I feel better equipped as a mother!

Tracy

Thedates have provided a beautiful springboard through fun memories for me and my girls to communicate about growing up, finding identity in Christ, and how to biblically navigate through the tricky pre-teen years.

Melanie

My daughter and Iwent on a date a month. We looked forward to each date and what we would do together. When my youngest daughter turned ten, she asked me when we were going to start going on our dates together!

Tina

My girls and I love the dates. Love it!

Wanda

After two years my daughters still remember and talk about what they learnedWe are taking a refresher course with the dates again this summer. A memory that will last a lifetime!

Lynda

I just started using 8 Great Dates. We have done the tea party and the art museum date. I thought it was a perfect way to make the comparison of my daughters beauty with fine art.

Sacheen

We have a lot of different interests and have just had some hard time bonding, but when we discovered the 8 Great Dates book last year, that all changed. God began to work in our lives in such a way that all I can seem to do when I think about it is cry. Hands down, going on our dates has been the highlight of both of our lives over the past year!

Jennifer

We are having so much fun doing our own Secret Keeper Girls group using 8 Great Dates. We have had two group dates so far, including our tea and facial parties, and the girls cant wait for our next one. Thank you for preserving our daughters!

Deb

We did the dates as a small group study of moms with their daughters!

Shari

We are in the second year of doing Secret Keeper Girl as an outreach with a local home for children. We have another local church interested in doing the same.

Pat

I have one daughter, who is nine years oldalmost ten. There are so many wonderful memories with her, and we are going through your Secret Keeper Girl Bible Study book and enjoying our dates immensely.

Joan

My daughter, Megan, and I enjoyed all of our dates as she learned what it meant to be a Secret Keeper Girl. My absolute favorite moment, though, was when my husband was able to join in on date night. Megan was beaming as she heard the praise from her papa about the amazing, godly young woman that she is becoming and the hope that lies ahead.

Wynne

I have so many wonderful memories with my daughter from this last yearthanks to you and your 8 great dates for you and your daughter book. But by far, my best memory was the least jazzy date. It was the one where we got away and spent some quiet time with God. When we got home, my eight-year-old daughter wrote this:

God has ben very good in my life but this time was the best evrer becase I had a date with my very own mom some pepole may think its werd but i dont think that mom and I had the best time ever and at the same time we got more time with god wich was a blessing nothing coud compair to that good date i know that was short but i gotta run see ya.

Jennifer

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8 GREAT DATES FOR MOMS AND DAUGHTERS

Copyright 2003, 2010 by Dannah Gresh

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

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Gresh, Dannah.

[Mothers planning guide for secret keeper girl]

8 great dates for moms and daughters / Dannah Gresh.

p. cm.

Originally published: Mothers planning guide for secret keeper girl. Chicago : Moody Publishers, c2003.

ISBN 978-0-7369-6114-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-6115-8 (eBook)

1. Mothers and daughtersReligious aspectsChristianity. 2. GirlsReligious life. 3. Beauty, Personal. I. Title. II. Title: Eight great dates for moms and daughters.

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To my mother, Kay Barker, who told me the teacup story and taught me to live it. Thank you for praying this verse over my life.

Lookand be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

H ABAKKUK 1:5

A Big SKG Squeeze to

Over 140,000 moms and daughters who have been through these dates in the book Secret Keeper Girl: 8 Great Dates for You and Your Daughter, where they first appeared. Ive loved getting to know my Secret Keeper Girls and their connecting moms through Facebook and my secretkeepergirl.com blog. I love you, girls! Thanks for getting Secret Keeper Girl rolling. We had no idea how big it would become!

Harvest House Publishers for partnering with us for the exciting growth of Secret Keeper Girl. I am so grateful that you see my heart to protect little girls in a culture thats pressing them to grow up way too fast. Thank you for re-releasing this, the original Secret Keeper Girl product, and for having the vision to encourage me to write Six Ways to Keep the Little in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens. Im especially grateful to Terry Glaspey for steering the partnership. Bob Hawkins Jr. and LaRae Weikert were especially generous with their time as we built the vision. Carolyn McCready invested no small amount of patience and expertise as a loving editor. Paul Gossard brought all the details together. Im humbled to work with such veterans in the publishing industry!

Dr. James Dobson for recommending this, the original Secret Keeper Girl product, in your much-anticipated book Bringing Up Girls! Your encouragement means a great deal and will expand this message greatly!

While Im at the task of squeezing, Im so grateful for my main squeeze, Bob. Secret Keeper Girl was his idea, and he has been faithful. From our great beginning with Moody Publishers through Greg Thorntons leadership to our expanding our partnerships, Bob has married administrative genius with patience.