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A Letter from the Program Director

You are about to experience one of the moments in your life that will change you forever. Never before has an opportunity been presented to you, that will make more of an impact on you as a father and permit you the chance to strengthen your relationship with your daughter. Our society directs us to work harder, achieve more, and be a good provider.

However, the only legacy of value we leave behind when we depart this world is our children. The YMCA mission to teach all people caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility has its roots in the Y-Princess parent child program. These values are developed at the youngest of ages, and our children look to us for direction, protection, and guidance.

To this point in your life, as a parent of a young daughter(s), you are special, loved, feared, and respected. As your daughter grows right before your eyes, she will be exposed to all kinds of people, situations, and challenges. The Y-Princess program will help prepare you to guide her through the difficult times, share the best of times, and make lifelong memories. Spending quality time experiencing fun activities and events, affords you the opportunity to devote uninterrupted time, to form a loving father / daughter relationship. Seize the moments for they pass by quickly!

The investment of time is minimal; money, affordable and priceless. The return on your commitment to parenting will bring you a heart filled with love, and relationship with your daughter that will last a lifetime!

A father holds a special place in a daughter’s heart, he is the first man she ever loved!

Purpose

To foster companionship and understanding between father and daughter.

Objectives

• Set foundation for positive, lifelong relationships between father and daughter
• Build a sense of self-esteem and personal worth for your child
• Expand awareness of spirit, mind and body
• Provide a framework to meet a mutual need of spending enjoyable, constructive and quality time together
• Enhance the quality of family time
• Emphasize the vital role that parents play in the growth and development of their children
• Offer an important and unique opportunity to develop and enjoy volunteer leadership skills

Aims of the Participants

1. To be clean in body and pure in heart
2. To be Friends Always with my Daughter/Father
3. To love the sacred circle of my family
4. To be attentive while others speak
5. To love my neighbor as myself
6. To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in forest, field and stream

Motto

Friends Forever FRIENDS ALWAYS!

Program Pledge

We, Father and Daughter, through friendly community service to each other, to our family, to this Tribe, and to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of the Great Spirit.

Table of Contents

Letter from the Program Director

Purpose

Objectives

Aims of Participants

Motto

Program Overview

Your Responsibilities

The Formation of a Tribe

New Tribe Gatherings

Activities

Tribe Leadership

Vests, Patches and Coup Sticks

10 Habits of Highly Successful Tribes

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The Princess Patter is a newsletter for the South Hills Area YMCA Princess Parent/Child Program

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