You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone and welcome back.

Today's episode will be a continuation on our conversation from last week.

This is part two of mothers and sons, fathers and daughters.

So we talked a little bit earlier about how for daughters and fathers, it's not quite the same.

We talked a lot about respecting your son and offering respect to your son.

But how about fathers and daughters?

What's different in that

relationship? Well, if you do the math, if you think about this same communication style thing between

men and women and how you treat a daughter that is becoming an adult, then ironically, dads need to be

careful that they don't offer too

much autonomy and respect. In other words, it's pretty easy for easier for dads to not over-nurture

teenagers. They're usually the ones saying, hey, let's just leave them alone. But with daughters,

if you begin to understand what we're talking about, that can be actually a risk. Dads really need

to be more interested and more involved in their teenage daughters than they might naturally

think. Teenage daughters, you know, girls, once they're beginning to,

especially to go through puberty, it's a very difficult time, very awkward. Most every teenage girl

feels unattractive in some sense. And especially they begin to want to know how am I perceived by

this whole world of men. It is her father that needs to be,

and actually is whether he wants to be or not, front and center as the man that will answer that

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