Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships Author: Jana Duggar | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BSB2BG6 | Format: PDF
Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships Description
It’s All About Relationships!In this delightful and very personal book, the four oldest Duggar girls share their hearts and their core beliefs, explaining that it’s all about relationships!
• Relationship with self: The girls share their own personal journeys to self-acceptance and navigating the difficult stage of adolescence.
• Relationship with parents: You’ll find revelations about how Jim Bob and Michelle keep the lines of communication open with their children.
• Relationships with siblings: Here, you’ll get a peek into the Buddy system, how the siblings handle conflict, and how the loss of little Jubilee (their sister) affected their relationships with each other.
• Relationships with friends: You’ll find principles on how the Duggar kids deal with peer pressure and how they interact with friends outside their family.
• Relationships with boys: You’ll learn the Duggar view of dating and courtship, and these four sisters will address the often-asked question of when one of them will get married.
• Relationship with God: And woven throughout the book, the girls talk about their most important relationship of all—their relationship with God and their own personal faith and beliefs.
This candid look into what Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger believe and why they believe it will give you practical insights into your own life and will inspire you to evaluate principles that will work for you.
- File Size: 13243 KB
- Print Length: 256 pages
- Publisher: Howard Books (March 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BSB2BG6
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I bought this on kindle for my 11 year old as I figured she could surely come away with a few worthwhile words of wisdom from the Duggar girls. I have read both of the family's previous books, we watch the show, and I really appreciate many things I have garnered from Michelle and Bob in doing so. I almost gave the book to her without reading it myself beforehand, but for some reason I cracked into it first and I am glad I did. Although the premise of esteem and relationship building etc is very needed at a tween age, I felt some of the discussions on abortion and mentions of pornography also included were a little more mature of conversations than I wanted my daughter to run across in a book. Unfortunately they were mentioned enough that I felt it overshadowed the parts I would prefer her to focus on. As it's difficult to say, "hey I need you to skip these chapters", without opening the can of worms by explaining why, I am probably going to shelve this book for her until she is closer to 13-14. It is obvious, simply by their family structure that the Duggars are extremely anti-abortion, so I wish they could have left a lot of that out of the book if it was targeted to "girls". I really don't feel like my daughter needs a crash course on partial birth abortion which is also discussed in a few places. I wasn't expecting such a hot button topic to be a central theme of more than one chapter (if at all).
Without delving into which of their stances I personally agree or disagree with,I would like to mention the following: 1) this book goes far deeper into a politically charged realm than the books written by Michelle and Jim, 2) it definitively has a different "tone" than the other books.
I’ve never seen a Duggar TV show, read another Duggar book, nor anything else by the Duggars. So when I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, I dived into reading with no previous opinions of the family.
The first thing I noticed was that even though the book is supposedly by four girls, it reads as if it was written by a single person. There is no difference in voice, expression, personality, or opinion. They even use the same odd clichés, such as “share our heart” (meaning to speak candidly). When I flipped to the Acknowledgments page, I discovered why. A writer named Charlie Richards is the actual author who penned the book after interviewing the young women.
This is not an insider’s look at a family of 19 and counting. Rather, it is a collection of events that happened while growing up, peppered with a whole lot of advice on how to be a good child and how to be a good parent. (Another indication that the book actually written by an older adult.)
The best audience for this book is teenage girls. They can glean wisdom from the Duggars, such as how to handle an annoying sibling, how to respectfully disagree with your parents, dealing with anger, managing peer pressure, forming opinions on opposite sex relationships, dressing modestly, and more.
A secondary audience is parents who can also pick up some good ideas. For example, on page 36-37 is a list of questions to ask your children in order to get them to open up and discuss life’s important issues. That alone could be worth the price of the book. Additionally, it might be helpful to read excerpts aloud to the family and then discuss your own responses to these situations.
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