Best of 2023: Guiding Your Daughter Into Womanhood
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this best of 2023 broadcast, Robin Jones Gunn and Jenny Coffey stress that Mom should be the safest person in her daughter’s life – where the conversation about puberty and development can be ongoing. The duo explains that a girl’s self-image and self-esteem will be profoundly impacted by how parents navigate this child’s first exposure to sexuality. Robin and Jenny also describe how moms can initiate the “sex talk” conversation with their daughters.
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| 0:00.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.5 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 0:31.3 | And I said to her, I want to be the first one to welcome you to womanhood. Your body is going to change. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm going to tell you a little bit about things you may be noticing already. |
| 0:42.0 | And then I just want to celebrate that God made you |
| 0:46.0 | this way. |
| 0:48.0 | That's Robin Jones Gunn describing a really special moment in her young daughter's life that transition from childhood |
| 0:55.0 | and she'll offer ways that you as a mom can help your daughter navigate that kind |
| 0:59.7 | of a transition in appropriate ways. Welcome to a Best of 2023 broadcast of Focus on the Family. |
| 1:06.3 | And if you haven't already guessed, |
| 1:08.3 | we're to be delving into some topics that aren't quite |
| 1:11.3 | suitable for younger children so direct their |
| 1:14.0 | attention elsewhere. Thanks for joining us your host is focused president and |
| 1:18.2 | author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. John that topic is puberty and I'm not surprised that this was one of the highest response |
| 1:25.5 | programs we've aired this year. |
| 1:27.8 | Kind of strange to think of that, but parents are more concerned than ever about helping |
| 1:32.4 | children start out on the right footing, a godly |
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