Bringing Up Girls with a Healthy Identity
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
During the teen years, girls need their parents' affirmation more than ever. John and Danny discuss how dads can encourage their daughters and help them develop a healthy identity. Find us online at focusonthefamily.com/parentingpodcast. Or, call 1-800-A-FAMILY.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.7 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | During the teen years girls |
| 0:12.8 | girls can feel so much pressure to find their worth in their looks or |
| 0:17.1 | the relationship status or their popularity and they really need mom and dad's affirmation in love more than ever at that stage. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta. |
| 0:29.0 | He's vice president of the Parenting and Youth Department here at Focus on the Family. |
| 0:34.0 | And we're going to hear from a conversation that |
| 0:37.0 | Focused President Jim Daly and I had with Danny and Jesse Manassian. |
| 0:42.0 | She's an author and youth speaker and together Danny and |
| 0:45.8 | Jessie offered practical advice for helping girls develop a healthier self |
| 0:50.6 | identity. Here's how Jim Daly opened that conversation. |
| 0:54.3 | Danny, I know in the Latino culture, especially for girls, they hit their 13th birthday. |
| 1:00.8 | I think it is. |
| 1:01.8 | Right. Right, right. |
| 1:03.0 | Very expensive. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, you tell us more about it because a lot of people won't be familiar with it. |
| 1:07.6 | But I think it's a wonderful way that they celebrate womanhood. |
| 1:10.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:11.6 | It's almost as elaborate as a wedding, to be honest. They spend a lot of |
| 1:15.4 | money on these and it's a to write a passage for a woman that she's becoming a |
| 1:19.0 | woman and said at what age 13 at 15 15 yeah |
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