Encouraging Healthy Femininity
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Our daughters are constantly fed lies from the culture on what it means to be strong. But even with so many mixed messages, you can model a better way for her. John and Danny offer some encouragement on how you can show your daughter what true strength is. Featuring Dr. Meg Meeker.
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| 0:00.0 | We had a season where one of my daughters was struggling mightily and we knew something was up, but we just didn't know what. |
| 0:10.0 | And she finally kind of faced the facts and shared honestly with us. |
| 0:16.0 | And we kind of had a breakthrough in that moment where, okay, we at least have things on the table. |
| 0:21.0 | We can at least talk about what's kind of going on in your head, heart, and your |
| 0:26.2 | soul. It was a good moment. The struggle is still there years later, but helping her find that inner strength in God was really |
| 0:36.7 | really critical. I'm John Fuller along with our vice president of parenting |
| 0:40.4 | Dr Danny where to and, our daughters in particular, both sons and daughters, |
| 0:46.0 | but especially our daughters have to deal with a lot coming at them from the culture these days. |
| 0:51.6 | Yes, John, I'm sure as you were raising your daughter same |
| 0:54.8 | thing just getting the messages that you need to look a certain way you need to |
| 0:59.8 | address a certain way in order to become more popular or have more strength socially, right? |
| 1:08.6 | And maybe more confidence. |
| 1:10.3 | Don't show your emotions, especially weak emotions, popularity means you have power and |
| 1:17.2 | strength. These are the messages that a lot of teenagers face and more so daughters, especially on the how you dress, your hair, |
| 1:26.8 | your attractive attractiveness on the outside. |
| 1:30.4 | Those are all things that will create for you a sense of strength and that it can be fleeting over time and we know that and we try to impart that to our daughters. |
| 1:43.0 | And so what we need to do as dads as moms |
| 1:47.0 | is process the messages that they're getting |
| 1:51.0 | and why they make sense to them and why they wouldn't make sense. |
| 1:55.7 | Help them think them through critically and also see what it creates inside of them as they |
| 2:01.6 | receive those messages and what would be another |
| 2:04.7 | message that could replace some of those. That would be a good conversation. Each |
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