Guiding Your Daughter Into Womanhood
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
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 | Welcome to another edition of Focus on the Family. I'm Jim Daley and today we're going |
| 0:08.0 | to address a rather sensitive subject, something not suitable for young ears. So certainly |
| 0:14.3 | put your your buds in or listen later, whatever is comfortable for you. But the topic is certainly |
| 0:20.4 | something you should listen to. It's on puberty and specifically daughters and moms and how |
| 0:27.5 | do moms constructively talk about this subject prior to a young girl encountering that significant |
| 0:35.3 | change that is going to occur. Obviously, I'm no expert in this topic, but I'm grateful that we do |
| 0:41.6 | have experts in here. I had two boys, so I am way out of my element on this one. But first of all, |
| 0:47.2 | we have Jenny Coffee. She is here with us. She's a marriage and family therapist and member of our |
| 0:53.0 | very own counseling team. She's also mom to four children, three girls and one boy. What are |
| 0:59.2 | their ages, Jenny? My oldest is 11, then 10, and then my son is eight and my youngest daughter is |
| 1:04.3 | six. So you're living this? Oh, we're in the middle. Yeah, very much. We also have the wonderful |
| 1:10.1 | author, Robin Jones Gunn. She is an author speaker, podcast host, and she's probably best known for |
| 1:17.6 | her Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen series of young adult novels. That's pretty good. Well done. |
| 1:24.5 | Robin has two grown children, including her son Ross, who is also running the video stuff for us, |
| 1:30.0 | I think, somewhere. So he has a great young man. Robin and Jenny, welcome. Thank you. |
| 1:35.1 | Thank you. It is so good. And let me tell you, Ross is a great young man. We enjoy having him here. |
| 1:40.0 | You did a good job raising that lad. Unfortunately, John's not here. So I get the duty of all of it |
| 1:46.0 | today. I will not have lunch with John because of that. Isn't it a little interesting that he chose |
| 1:52.4 | this topic not to show him before? Yeah, no kidding. I'm going to go after him when I see him in the |
| 1:57.7 | hall. What happened to you? He probably, you know, had a bad hair day. Yeah. Well, let's start by |
| 2:03.7 | describing the important relationship between mother and daughter. Robin, you say a mom should be |
| 2:09.3 | the safest person for a daughter. Absolutely. But that's not always the case. What do you mean |
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