Your daughter longs for connection and good friendships, but it's not happening.

She's really feeling rejected.

How do you handle that?

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta who is a counselor and heads up the parenting team here at Focus.

Danny, your daughter Lexi I'm sure has gone through seasons where friends, they're my life, friends, I don't have any.

That's a tough thing for girls, isn't it?

Oh, it's huge.

I mean, that's a lifeline for girls, that relationship is key.

And my daughter craved having a best friend.

She saw several of her friends having best friends

and she didn't feel close to any one person.

She had a lot of acquaintances, and she's a very social girl,

was well liked, but she was not included

in the small groups at times times and she felt really hurt by

that and had a hard time trusting her peers. They would come back and say

yeah we had fun this weekend or this person was over to our house and to my house and we played this,

this and that and she felt really hurt by the fact that she was not invited to those things.

But she craved that closeness that that trusting healthy friendship

that many of us long for but I know that girls it's so important for them

developmentally.

And we're going to hear more about that now from Dana Gresch.

Here she is with Focus President Jim Daly.

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