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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

When Your Daughter is Boy Crazy

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Many girls go through what's typically coined as a "boy crazy" stage. How do you help her work through that season? John and Danny address how this is common for girls. You'll also hear Jim Daly and Dannah Gresh talk about pointing your daughter to Jesus, even when she wants a boyfriend.

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0:00.0

Well I've got three daughters and at least one of them was pretty boy crazy in high school.

0:08.0

In fact, I didn't even know she had a boyfriend until they had broken up.

0:12.0

So many girls go through the boy crazy phase earlier.

0:15.6

I've got a colleague whose daughter is in seventh grade.

0:18.8

She's kind of boy crazy.

0:20.2

We're going to talk about what to do,

0:21.5

how to help your daughter navigate this phase.

0:24.0

I'm John Fuller, along with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny, is it 100% of girls are boy crazy at some phase or another? It's not, I mean it is common,

0:36.4

it's very common, but it's not a hundred percent, I would say that. I know you're

0:40.2

being facetious, John, but we do think that it's super super common but boy craziness

0:45.2

this is where they just can't stop thinking about boys it's just all all boy boy boy boy

0:50.5

and some girls get crazier than others with this and you have some

0:56.1

that just don't know why people are always talking boys and that was my daughter

1:01.8

would come home and say man it's constant

1:04.3

talking about boys with with girls and I don't have as much to relate to because I don't

1:07.9

feel that sense of super boy crazy and she liked boys but and she was

1:12.4

attracted it wasn't

1:13.5

wasn't quite like that. What's interesting is when the boy craziness hits what I've

1:18.6

noticed is girls try to get attention in that season and they'll do a variety of things to try to get

1:25.8

attention back like look at me look at me and when you look at the definition for

1:30.2

modesty it's about not drawing attention to yourself,

1:35.0

whatever that would be, the clothes, whatever it is,

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