If you've got teen daughters, you know that their world is a jumbled mess of messages coming to them from peers, from those they go to school with, from people at church, from the culture, the culture, oh my goodness, you are a rock, mom. You are a rock, dad. You are the foundational,

most influential person in their lives. And you have great ways to encourage them. It's just

figuring out what does that look like. So like one of my daughters is a words girl. And so we spent a

lot of time exchanging notes. One of my other daughters is a physical girl. And so we spent a lot of time exchanging notes. One of my other

daughters is a physical touch girl. And I hugged her a whole bunch during her teen years. Still do.

She walks in the door. She comes over and says, I want to hug. So you have to dial in and find out

what works. I'm John Fuller, Dr. Danny Werirtta, heads up the focus on the family parenting team.

And Danny, you're a counselor.

And in this broken world with so many mixed messages and kids just crying out,

teen girls especially need us as parents to show up.

Yes, they do.

But what does that look like?

Well, teen girls are struggling with

insecurity, all kinds of insecurities underneath the surface, and they compensate for them

in a variety of ways. And those insecurities can lead to tremendous loneliness, anxiety, depression,

eating issues, all from this place of comparison that a common phrase I get

when I'm speaking to teen girls is, I don't know if I'm good enough. They have this doubt. Am I good

enough? Am I lovable enough? Am I, you know, those types of questions that are core beliefs. And I want to

just interrupt and say, despite what I said as we open the show, a couple of my daughters struggled

with really core issues like you're talking about. We had a child with eating disorders. One of those

girls struggled with depression. And so you can do everything you want, but it may not be enough.

Right.

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