the parent the chick the wardrobe: June 2011

Synopsis - the parent the chick the wardrobe

Fabricating and Fashionising daughters

“the parent the chick the wardrobe” targets the common issue of parenting- from a daughter’s perspective. It illustrates the fundamental issues of parenting from a bottom-up approach for daughters to can discover how parental influence inevitably fashions them into the women they are or can be.

The book, “the parent the chick the wardrobe” was written out of the observed need to help bridge the lack of parent-daughter communication in the 21^st century. The analogy of the wardrobe was chosen to highlight principles related to character realization and development because clothing is deemed as a neutral and universal, but yet critical part of one’s life.

A girl’s pride and glory is often reflected in her style of choice. In the same fashion, she needs to learn what skill sets (clothing pieces) fit her best in order for her to shine from the outside-in and inside-out. This is where parents play a significant role in shaping our lives as daughters. They can choose to provide the whole package for us throughout our formative years – from head gear to shoes, so to speak, or they can choose to allow us to discover our own sense of style, which may often result in poorly fitted clothing or ‘indecent’ retail buys.

This book speaks to parents who have a strong desire to understand the growing pains of daughters and how they can best equip their daughters to realise their fullest potential. At the same time, it is also targeted at Asian teenage girls who will find it easy to identify with the author through her personal reflections. Both parents and daughters will find useful insights that aim to facilitate stronger family bonding in this refreshing, light hearted and spiritually uplifting journal.

I am writing this book out of my passion to help teenage girls discover the best they can be, and to allow their outfit choices to reflect that. The books will be promoted through schools, family organisation and hopefully, seminars in order to reach many lost teenage girls. It is my personal commitment to give 50% of profits away to three selected charities, two of which will be missions based in the rural mountains of Thailand, Cambodia, and lastly a secular family focused organisation in Singapore.