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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Your Daughter's Need for Attention

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The needs that a daughter has versus a son are incredibly different. One of the worst things that can happen for your girl is for her to feel like she hasn't been heard. John and Danny discuss what some of the common needs are for every daughter. Featuring Dr. Meg Meeker.

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0:00.0

As a father with both daughters and sons, it was fascinating to see how God made them so different.

0:08.0

We started with two boys and we thought our third would be a boy and she wasn't.

0:12.0

And then we had another girl and another

0:14.7

girl and it became pretty obvious and these are general stereotypes Danny I mean there

0:20.4

are exceptions but what we observed was that we just wanted to keep the boys from

0:27.2

hurting us or each other too badly. My wife called me one time she was crying

0:32.3

she's like I was just reading to them and they bocked me and they hadn't hurt me. I mean, boys can hurt people just listening to a book.

0:40.0

Girls on the other hand generally are much, I don't know, they're just quieter. But there

0:47.0

are exceptions to the rule I came into the studio one time with a black eye from one of my daughters,

0:52.4

so anything can happen, but those are some general things

0:55.7

that I found different between raising a boy and a girl.

0:58.4

You've got answers, I'm sure.

0:59.6

Every parent who has both knows there is, a difference. Actually Danny let's just open it up here.

1:06.0

How do you see the difference in socializing between girls and boys?

1:09.3

Yeah girls tend to be and this is fascinating to me John, the way that God has designed the girls

1:16.4

and boys differently.

1:18.0

Girls tend to have the bonding hormone of oxytocin at high levels to begin with and boys it's a low level.

1:25.0

It comes out when you hit each other though.

1:28.0

It just squeezes out.

1:30.0

Girls are more just prime to have conversation and to have being able to talk about a

1:37.6

variety of things. Their thoughts, their emotions, secrets, everything is

1:41.0

happening. They love conversation and they're really designed to be

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