I read it too Slapshot.
I have three girls, and a teenage grandaughter, and i have always done my utmost to affirm them as important valuable people, and of course, they are beautiful to me.
But if I thought that my love and affirmation had turned them into deluded self-obsessed egotists like Ms. Brick, I would think I had gone wrong somewhere.
The only time I felt able to go totally over the top with my feelings about their worth and beauty was on their repsective wedding days - which is part of the pleasure of the bride's father's speech - but that's for a fe minutes on one very special day.
Any dad is proud of his daughter, as it is right to be, the danger is, making her disprportionately proud of herself, and keen to let everyone know about it.