A friend once told Dana Gresh how to care for a particular kind of tropical plant.

She said once a week, I want you to grab the branch, and it's a scrawny little branch,

like the width of my thumb, with this big, big leaves on top, and she said, you go like this.

And she starts shaking it, and I'm thinking, she's going to break it.

She's shaking it roughly.

She's like, they were made for the wind.

And they are made to live in the tropics where the rain comes in torrential downpours,

also creating a shaking in them. If they don't get the wind and if they don't get the

torrential downpours, their roots don't get strong.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, along with Dana Gresh,

co-authors of Lies Young Women Believe for August 15, 2019.

Raising daughters can be a scary thing these days.

That's why we need parenting wisdom and lots of grace.

Consider the story this mom told us.

Our daughter Ella, who's in sixth grade, she was at school, Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, like normal, and she came home from school.

It must have been on Tuesday and had said,

Mom, you're never going to believe this. Some of the girls are spreading a rumor about her best friend

Emma. And I said, well, what's the rumor? And I said, is Emma okay? And she said, yeah, she's okay.

We talked about it. And she said that the rumor was that her best friend Emma was by and that

she liked our daughter Ella because they've been best friends since first grade. And you

know you're all taken aback because you're thinking in sixth grade this is even coming up.

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