Just Dad and MeAmerican Girl has a lot of very overpriced dolls that I could never afford to get my daughters, but also a publishing arm that offers great advise books for the 9 to 12 year old girl crowd. I’ve gotten several for Mika (well, I got them through swaptree and I have not actually gotten them yet), and I’m impressed by how they tackle everyday issues that girls that age need to deal with.
I wrote before about how Mika enjoys the Just Mom and Me book, which offers different activities for moms and daughters. And now American Girl has come out with Just Dad and Me: The Fillin, Tearout, Foldup Book of Fun for Girls and Their Dads, which offers activities for dads and daughters to do together.
I haven’t gotten the book yet (I just ordered it and will review it once Mike and Mika make use of it), but it’s interesting from the description alone how different the activities for moms and daughters and dads and daughters are. Mika and I have made songs together, reviewed restaurants and spent a lot of time answering questionnaires about each other. Those questionnaires also seem to be in the dad version, but they also include things such as making paper helicopters and coming up with secret handshakes. Hey, I personally don’t find anything wrong in the differentiation – but then again, Mike and I have a marriage divided pretty much along typical gender lines.
In any case, I thought that other families might be interested in this book (I just read heard about it today), and thus this posting.