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Helping your kids know what to do with their emotions can be really tricky, whether you're a mom or a dad, whether you have sons or daughters.

I'm John Fuller, along with our head of parenting here at Focus on the Family. He's a family

counselor as well, Danny Werter. And today we're going to hear more from David

Thomas and Sissy Gough about emotional milestones that every child goes through.

Here now are David and Sissy talking with Focus President Jim Daly.

How do we equip our daughters and at what age and again I want to move kind of the age continuum if you can

carry it all the way through from a three four year old up to a 16 17 year old how do

we give our girls equip them to avoid the pressure to please?

If you can achieve that as a parent in your girls, that is a milestone.

That is an incredible achievement.

How would you go about that?

Just take us all the way through.

One of the things I talk with parents of girls of all ages about is a combination of kindness and strength

and how often we lean towards one or the other that we

either just don't have a voice at all and so we don't ever stand over themselves

themselves or we're really strong and we have these strong boundaries and we're

unkind in the midst of that and so teaching girls from their earliest stages to

say things like I want to play with you but not when you treat me like that.

You know how different for a woman that I want to play with you, but not when you treat me like that.

You know, how different for a woman

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