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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Help Your Teen Girl Embrace Who She Is

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Being accepted by others is a deep longing in the heart of young girls. Dr. Heather Holleman joins Jim Daly to share about why getting a seat at the popular girls table is not what it seems like. You'll then hear John and Danny on how to discern if your daughter is experiencing a serious challenge or not.

 

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0:32.4

Well, there's no doubt that there's a cultural tsunami that is washing over your teen daughter about her looks,

0:40.6

her identity, her friends, everything about her. And the truth is perhaps altogether different

0:48.3

than most of the messaging. We're going to talk about how you can help support your teen daughter

0:53.1

today. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, and we're going to kick off with a conversation

0:59.0

that focused on the family president Jim Daly had with Dr. Heather Holloman.

1:03.2

She's a professor at Penn State, and she is one persuasive woman.

1:08.1

I love what she has to say.

1:10.1

Let's listen in as she shared with Jim about how to help

1:12.7

your teen daughter. Heather, again, I didn't raise girls. I have two boys. So it's always

1:18.5

fascinating to me to talk to parents like you two that had girls. But in that context, I probably

1:26.1

have some stereotyping in my head. I mean,

1:30.4

I just haven't had the experience. But I would think young girls, that popularity thing,

1:35.6

acceptance thing, I think I'm pretty good at coaching a son in that direction. But even with what you're saying, one of your daughter's really getting at having a seat

1:48.1

at the table, for the parent that maybe has done something like that, but that daughter has

1:53.9

not grabbed on to that, you know, and they're still struggling with the popularity problem

1:59.4

being accepted.

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