Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you.

I'm going to open the show talking about, again, this is why I love relationality.

What's so fascinating is, ready for this, all of our relationships need the same things.

The things that children need from their parents are the same things that

adults need from the other primary and secondary adults in their lives. It's the same stuff.

So we're going to talk about what research is showing that children need from their adult

parents. And the article specifically focuses on fathers. Well, they are not

the article, the research, because there's a couple of pieces I'm putting together here,

but it's focusing specifically on what fathers can do in order to raise daughters that are

healthy and confident because it acknowledges that a lot of men are raised to believe that

they can't be parents for that women,

you know, women just innately know how to parent and are better care. No, they're not. Men are

just as good at caregiving and parental involvement and investment when given the opportunity,

when raised to have the confidence to try. Men are often sidelined in parenting. And so they aren't

able to show and be seen that they have a special

skill set just like the woman does. These things are not innate. They are socialized. We experience them.

My point in bringing this topic up is it's also what a mother can do with a son. It's also what a father can do

with a son. It's also what two adults can do with a son. It's also what two adults

can do for each other. So even though the entry point is a father with a daughter or a father of the

child, this is what an adult in your life needs. This is what your adult partner needs from you.

And I love that. It's the same stuff. A really powerful example that I will use in my clinical

practice when I'm working with a man

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