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🗓️ 16 November 2023
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If you have a daughter, you know that she craves connection. Jim Daly and author Dannah Gresh address why God designed girls for relationships. Plus, Danny and John share about ways a dad can be involved in his daughter's social life.
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| 0:00.0 | Well God is blessed the Fuller family with three boys and three girls and I relate |
| 0:07.0 | differently to the guys. We get together and do things. I just recently had an |
| 0:11.2 | opportunity to get together with one of my adult daughters and we just strolled. I just |
| 0:14.4 | strolled, had an opportunity to get together with one of my adult daughters and we just |
| 0:14.4 | strolled hand and hand through some stores had some coffee, did a little hike. |
| 0:19.2 | It was it was really lovely, but it's not the kind of thing I'd do with my guys. It's a real thing |
| 0:25.0 | that daughters especially crave connection and conversation in ways that |
| 0:29.8 | boys just don't. I'm John Fuller along with our vice president of parenting |
| 0:34.8 | Danny Werta and Danny you're a counselor and certainly there are differences and |
| 0:40.4 | there are exceptions to the stereotypes but there are differences between |
| 0:43.8 | how daughters and sons relate to us and to the world at large aren't there? |
| 0:48.0 | There are there vast differences between them and there's specific social challenges that girls find themselves |
| 0:56.3 | in that are more unique to them than boys and one of them is the looks, how they look, their hair, the way they dress, their fashion |
| 1:08.0 | is much, much more of a pressure for girls. |
| 1:11.0 | Social media, being on social media is a big pressure for girls. Social media, being on social media is a big pressure for girls and then to be very high performing |
| 1:18.6 | academically. |
| 1:20.9 | That's interesting. |
| 1:21.9 | Boys, there isn't as big of an expectation for boys to be as good academically and you know you wonder why. |
| 1:29.0 | But the big one is the looks piece. |
| 1:32.0 | Girls do compare with each other and there's a pressure if we |
| 1:36.6 | look at just a marketing and within social media to look a certain way and so we |
| 1:42.0 | want to make sure as parents to step into conversations to bring truth and to bring perspective into those social challenges. |
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