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Raising Daughters
This podcast will provide information, awareness, practical tools, and inspiration to parents and other adults who work with elementary, middle, and high school girls.
Episodes
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Middle School Girls Share About Friend Drama, Social Media, Pressures, And Parents
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the social whirlwinds and emotional storms of your middle school daughter? You’re not alone! This episode of Raising Daughters…
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How to Keep Your Daughter Safe With Her Phone and Social Media
Show Notes: Digital wellness expert Dawn Wible discusses programs for keeping kids safe on their devices and social media. Who is most vulnerable to the…
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Embracing and Learning From Our “Dark Feelings” of Anger, Anxiety, and Grief
Show Notes: Mariana Alessandri, author of Night Vision, discusses the need to normalize all of our emotions and to educate girls to listen to what they have to…
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When and How to Educate Girls About Puberty and Periods
Show Notes: Gynecologist Dr. Maggie Abraham discusses how to educate girls about the physical changes from puberty and about menstruation management. When…
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Why Girls Refuse to Move On From Toxic Friends
Show Notes: Girls often respond to toxic friends with tend & befriend behaviors instead of moving on for fear of being alone. Understanding the importance of…
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A Self-Care Primer for Girls and Women
Show Notes: Health coach Marnie Dachis Marmet discusses the many ways girls & parents can practice regular self-care, including sleep, nutrition, yoga, and…
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THE Best Diet for Adolescent Girls
Show Notes: The most beneficial diet for adolescent girls includes social-emotional and mental health items, not calories. Perhaps there is a different…
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In Search of Character and Calling
Show Notes: What do you mean by the “soul’s code?” The book, The Soul’s Code, offers a way to see thru children’s misbehaviors for the deeper meaning behind…
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Family Meetings: The Best Parenting Tool Ever!
Show Notes: Intentions for running weekly family meetings: Running weekly family meetings results in more closeness, increased cooperation, kids who feel…
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Why Women Don’t Scream, Fight Back, or Report Sexual Assaults and Rapes
Show Notes: Women don’t scream or fight back during sexual assaults and rapes due to protective brain responses and cultural conditioning. Soccer player Jenni…
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Food Fights and Bedtime Battles: Redirecting Everyday Power Struggles
Show Notes: Reasons kids engage parents in power struggles Dr. Jordan many reasons why kids engage us in power struggles including: feel disconnected from…
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How To Handle Homesick College Students
Show Notes: Learn how to handle calls from homesick college freshmen to empower them to learn how to cope, problem-solve, and grow in confidence. Why young…
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How To Turn Physical & Emotional Scars into Beauty
Show Notes: Dr. Jordan discusses how girls can reframe past experiences & scars into healthy stories Turning scars into beauty exercise Dr. Jordan describes an…
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How My Campers Invented the Greatest Game Ever!
Show Notes: Creating a lot of down time at our camp allows kids to take initiative & create their own fun and games. The benefits of unsupervised, down time In…
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Teaching Kids To Forgive and Move On
Show Notes: In this podcast, learn the benefits and the tools for forgiving others. Research on the harmful effects of not forgiving others Research on the…
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5 Ways We Are Sucking the Soul Out of Children
Show Notes: The following are 5 ways we are sucking the heart and soul out of our children’s lives and with great cost: Down time for self-directed play Value…
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How Our World Would Be Different if Women Were the Storytellers
Show Notes: Dr. Jordan discusses the book, Cassandra Speaks: when women are the storytellers, the human story changes, with author Elizabeth lesser Using her…
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Covid’s Lingering Social and Academic Effects On Teenagers
Show Notes: Dr. Jordan interviews 4 young adult women about the lingering social & academic effects from covid. Topics discussed in this interview: What grade…
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The Recipe For Success Contains These Key Ingredients
Show Notes: Girls need to decide what success & having it all means for them, & to develop the following qualities to achieve a fulfilling life. The following…
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Why Trigger Warnings & Sunday Scaries Are So Troubling
Show Notes Learn the truth about Sunday scaries & trigger warnings as well as how to prevent & manage them. What are the Sunday scaries? The Sunday scaries are…
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A Mother’s Story of Abuse, Tragedy, and Love
Blue star grit: A mother’s journey of triumph and tragedy raising a defiant child into an exceptional leader Show Notes: Show Notes: Listen to author Ginny…
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Get Outside & Play! Why It’s So Critical For Kids
Show Notes: Research shows that time in nature is associated with improved mental health, decreased stress, enhanced creativity and prosocial behaviors, and…
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How To Purposefully Parent With the End in Mind
Show Notes: Elevate your parenting by creating an end in mind and using it to guide all of your decisions; listen in for how to do this. 2 fears driving…
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Could Your Daughter Be the Next Taylor Swift?
Show Notes: The critical ingredients for developing talent are inspiration, deep practice, good coaches, and autonomy. In this podcast, Dr. Jordan describes…
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The Many Ways That Parents Show Love
Show Notes: It’s healthy for girls to realize the many ways their parents do love them vs. lamenting the ways they don’t. How ghosts in the nursery AFFECTS…
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What Your High School Senior Needs From You
Show Notes: Learn some specific ways parents can support high school seniors as they transition to the next leg of their journey. Understanding how touch…
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Why Is My Teenager So Disrespectful?
Show Notes: Understanding why your teen is disrespectful will help you stay more detached but more supportive. The many ways we disrespect teenagers: How…
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8 Mistakes Parents Make When Listening
Show Notes: If you want to remain an influence in your daughter’s life, avoid these 8 mistakes parents make in listening. 8 Mistakes parents make when…
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Why Girls Need To Be Angry, Anxious, and Crying
Show Notes: Understanding what your emotions are teaching you normalizes them & aids girls in managing them. How feelings can teach you about yourself Feelings…
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Present Day Plagues Damaging Girls Pt. 1
Show Notes: The following 3 issues are current plagues that are damaging girls: good girl conditioning, the lack of down time and unstructured play, and early…
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Why Is My Daughter So Lonely?
Show Notes: Learn the many reasons why girls may feel lonely & disconnected, including friendship drama & social media. Statistics on loneliness in kids and…
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Teaching Girls How to Make Better Decisions
Show Notes: Dr. Sheila Ohlsson discusses her book, Wise Decisions, about how to teach girls to make better decisions. The following are topics discussed with…
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Prom: A Dad’s Advice to His Daughter
Show Notes: Teach your daughter how to be aware of & trust her gut alarms & what blunts them, set firm boundaries, create criteria for sexuality before dating…
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: What Dorothy Can Teach Teen Girls
Show Notes: Dorothy’s heroine’s journey illustrates how girls must face their fears and overcome adversities in order to gain the strength and resources to…
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The Danger From Stranger Danger
Show Notes: Overblown parental fears regarding stranger danger and abductions adds undo anxiety to children and zaps their confidence. Past & current…
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How Might You Be Causing Your Daughter’s Anxiety?
Show Notes: Listen in and learn some ways that parents may be contributing to or causing their daughter’s anxiety. Ways that parents cause anxiety in their…
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Why Teens Don’t Want to Grow Up
Show notes: Listen to 4 young adults candidly explain their fears about growing up and settling like their parent’s generation. How the path to adulthood has…
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School Dress Codes Are Sexist and Damaging To Girls
Show Notes: School dress codes are sexist and often result in body shame, self-objectification, powerlessness, and making girls responsible for boy’s bad…
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Girls Need To Experience More Risk & Adventures
Show Notes: Can we please find better alternatives then the military for young adults to experience risk, adventure, mission, and purpose? 3 books on what…
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The Science of Dating and Love
Learn the evolutionary, brain, and hormonal reasons behind dating and falling in love so that you can better understand & support your daughter’s relationships…
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Is Your Daughter Ready For Social Media? Here’s How To Tell
Show Notes: In this podcast, learn the social readiness signs that would indicate your daughter is ready to try social media Why the teen brain is at risk for…
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Parent and Love the Daughter You Have
Show Notes: Stop trying to change your daughter and accept her for who she is, even if she is different than your family. Why parents may have a hard time…
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How Youth Sports Are Negatively Affecting Our Daughters
Show Notes: Today’s hypercompetitive & hyperspecialized youth sports are causing girls to experience more overuse injuries, anxiety, stress, and burnout…
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How Parents, Schools, and Our Girls Can Stop Cyberbullying
Show Notes: Parents, schools, and girls themselves can learn to stop cyberbullying; here’s how. Disturbing data on the rise in cyberbullying Nearly half of…
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Raising Amazing Daughters: A Primer for Dads
Show Notes: Dads have a unique role to play in raising confident, successful, amazing daughters. Benefits to having an involved father in the home Dr. Jordan…
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How To Be Busy Without Being Hurried & Alone Without Being Lonely
Show Notes: Set an intention for 2023 to slow down, stop multitasking, unplug, & learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn to be busy without being hurried…
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2 Heartwarming Stories about Tinsel and Love
Listen with your family to a story about the origin of tinsel and one about a father’s love for his daughter. Merry Christmas!
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The Real Keys To a Happy Life: It’s Not What You Think
Show Notes: Happiness does not result from having more money, fame, or likes; it comes from living a life of purpose & service. Kids have experienced unhealthy…
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Raising Generous Daughters
Show Notes: Parents have a role in raising daughters who are generous, empathetic, and guided by an internal code of ethics. Included in this week’s podcast…
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How To Raise a Spirited Child
Show Notes: Raising a spirited, powerful child is challenging; these stories offer ways to support them without crushing their spirit. Spirited kids have a…
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Gratitude: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Show Notes: Listen in to Learn the Many Ways to Express Gratitude and Experience Its Benefits What are the benefits of practicing gratitude consistently? Dr…
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Crucial Skills Young Adults Need to Get Hired
Show Notes: Top grades from a top college are less important to employers than soft skills like people skills, creativity, love of learning, and…
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The Birds and the Bees Talk: How, When, Where, and Why 
Show Notes: Girls need information about puberty and sexuality, but most of sex ed should be relationship education that starts in early childhood. When should…
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How to Teach Kids to Let Go and Not Sweat the Small Stuff
Show Notes: Girls can learn to let things go and not sweat the small stuff to avoid being stressed out. Catch self when ruminating & switch it Learn to catch…
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What to Ask Your Daughter Instead of, “How Was Your Day?”
Show Notes: To get your daughters to share more & to remain an influence in their lives, use these questions vs the standard, “How was your day?” The need to…
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When and Why Youth Sports Went Off the Rails
Show Notes: Learn in this podcast when and why youth sports changed into a commercialized business that is detrimental to children. The HISTORY of youth sports…
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Why is your child’s teacher quitting her job?
Show Notes: Listen in to this sobering conversation as 2 teachers discuss the challenges they are facing with students, parents, and the educational system…
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How Not to Raise an Entitled Brat
Show Notes: Are we raising a GENERATION of indulged & entitled brats? Adults these days worry that we are raising a generation of entitled and indulged brats…
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Is College Necessary for a Successful Life?
Show Notes: Drop the 1-size-fits-all standard about everyone needing college & be open to kids finding their own path to success. Kids conditioned to believe…
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10 Common Mistakes Parents of Girls Make
Show Notes: The following are 10 of the most common mistakes parents make that leave girls feeling misunderstood, unsupported, and unloved. Give her a day…