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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

The Pressures Girls Are Under

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With the rise of social media, girls are bombarded with messages on what it means to be beautiful. Scarlet Hiltibidal and Jim Daly share how to encourage your daughters that they are enough, even if the world doesn't tell them that. Also, John and Danny offer some great insights on helping your daughter navigate the digital space today.

 

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:25.1

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0:32.5

Thanks for joining us today. We're going to be offering hope to parents of daughters

0:36.3

on how you can help your

0:38.0

girl feel valued, even in this culture that sends constant messaging that you're not enough,

0:44.3

you're not pretty, you're not worthy, you're not beautiful. I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny

0:49.2

who heads up our parenting team. I've got three daughters. Danny, you've got one.

0:54.8

Pressures.

0:55.6

Pressures today compared to when we were raising our girls.

0:59.5

Pressures compared to 20 or 30 years ago.

1:01.9

It's intensified, hasn't it?

1:03.5

It has.

1:03.9

It hasn't.

1:04.9

Actually, stats have shown that girls' self-confidence has dropped significantly in the last decade by about 10, 15 percentage points.

1:15.3

Wow.

1:15.7

And so if you think about that, I mean, that's big.

1:18.7

When self-confidence goes, other things, other coping strategies come out, including eating issues and a variety of other things that come into play.

1:28.1

My daughter, she's a people person.

1:30.2

She said, Dad, I love, I've just done people power.

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