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Raising Daughters

Raising a daughter can be deeply rewarding, but understanding what she is thinking, feeling, and experiencing is not always easy. Raising Daughters helps parents build stronger relationships with their daughters and confidently navigate the challenges of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.

Hosted by developmental and behavioral pediatrician Dr. Tim Jordan, each episode provides practical guidance on the real issues girls and their families face today, including anxiety, confidence, friendships, school pressure, emotional health, social media, relationships, communication, independence, and leadership.

Through expert interviews, honest parenting conversations, real-life experiences, and insights from girls themselves, you will learn how to communicate more effectively, support your daughter’s emotional wellbeing, encourage resilience, set healthy boundaries, and remain a trusted influence as she grows.

Whether you are raising a young girl, supporting a teenager, or working to strengthen your relationship with an adult daughter, Raising Daughters offers useful ideas and meaningful conversations you can apply in everyday family life.

Follow Raising Daughters for weekly guidance on raising confident, resilient, and emotionally healthy girls.

Copyright: © Tim Jordan, MD

Latest Episodes:

Raising Generous Girls Dec 08, 2022

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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 Dec 01, 2022

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Show Notes: Raising a spirited, powerful child is challenging; these stories offer ways to support them without crushing their spirit. James Hillman’s book, The Soul’s Code, describes how powerful, spirited children have an unconscious knowing of what life will bring them. Behaviors they exhibit in childhood are often labelled as abnormal vs. understanding what it might mean for them in the long-term. Dr. Jordan shares many stories of eminent people to illustrate the importance of parents seeing the oak tree in their children when all they have in front of them is an acorn. Enjoy stories about Gandhi, Peter Frampton, Woody Allen, Picasso, Bette Davis, and Judy Garland to illustrate how spirited kids often sense their destiny early in life and insist on following their passions. Dr. Jordan then shares stories that illuminate some critical ways to meet the needs of these powerful kids so that they bloom into what they are destined to become. Learn how to find the balance of giving enough rope for them to feel in control but also keep them safe, let them make mistakes & learn from them but keep them safe. Enjoy stories about how the parents of these eminent people supported their kids to blossom: Golda Meir, Tony Faddell, Louis CK, Jane Goodall, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Spirited children need the autonomy to find & follow own interests & passions even if they are far different than their family. They need guidance, but in the end, we also need to learn to stay out of their way! For more information on Dr. Jordan’s resources, visit www.drtimjordan.com
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Gratitude: The Gift That Keeps On Giving Nov 23, 2022

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Show Notes: Listen in to Learn the Many Ways to Express Gratitude and Experience Its Benefits Dr. Jordan describes the numerous benefits of practicing gratitude consistently including stronger immune systems & improved health, higher levels of positive emotions such as joy, optimism, and happiness, more generous/ compassionate; relished good experiences more, dealt better with adversity; helped to build strong relationships. You will also learn the many benefits of gratitude for children and teenagers and teachers. Dr. Jordan describes 16 ways to express gratitude including writing thank you notes, writing gratitude letters to people who made a difference in your life or the lives of others, the “George Bailey effect”, and expressing appreciation through poems, pictures, songs, stories, and notes. You will also learn ways to incorporate gratitude into your home with your children so that it becomes part of the fabric of who you are as a family. Dr. Jordan also sprinkles some good quotes and jokes about gratitude throughout the podcast, such as: It's almost Thanksgiving Day... Remember to set all your scales back 10 pounds tonight. For a copy of Dr. Jordan’s handout on 16 ways to express gratitude, go to his website at www.drtimjordan.com
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Crucial Skills Young Adults Need Today to Get Hired Nov 17, 2022

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Show Notes: Top grades from a top college are less important to employers than soft skills like people skills, creativity, love of learning, and problem-solving. Dr. Jordan describes the qualities that Owners & CEOs of successful companies tell him they are most interested in when hiring young people: people skills, past experiences where fully engaged in some interest, love of learning & willingness to learn, creative & out-of-the-box thinkers, problem-solvers, and a history of overcoming adversity. Soft skills that employers value today: communication skills, respect, teamwork, collaboration, and conflict management, self-discipline, integrity, dependability and hardworking, good at taking initiative and self-starting, self-motivated, empathy and sensitivity, creative and out-of-the-box thinkers. Dr. Jordan describes information from Daniel Pink’s book, A Whole new Mind. Historically, the importance of the right side of the brain and the way of thinking it represents has been undervalued. As we move from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, Right-Directed Thinking that is more creative, holistic, and intuitive is becoming more and more important. Link to article on soft skills employers look for: Relisten to Dr. Jordan’s podcast from 10-7-21 The good, the bad, and the ugly about being in your twenties to learn about the value of developing identity capitol during your teen and 20s years. Parents need to value these soft skills more highly than just focusing on grades and piling up activities just to fill up a college application. To learn more about life lessons that will allow young women to rise to their potential, read Dr. Jordan’s book, Letters from My Grandfather: Timeless Wisdom for a Life Worth Living and, She Leads: A Practical Guide for Raising Girls Who Advocate, Influence, and Lead
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The Birds and the Bees Talk: How, When, Where, and Why Nov 10, 2022

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Show Notes: Girls need information about puberty, and sexuality, but most of sex ed should be relationship education that starts in early childhood. When: girls are starting puberty earlier and earlier, with the mean age of beginning breast bud development being around 10 in Caucasian girls and 9 in African American girls. So, education about the changes coming to their bodies and why should begin around 5th grade before the changes begin. Where: Sex ed ideally should be a parent-school partnership. Aaron Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, wrote for The Times in 2017 that studies have shown that “comprehensive sex education improved knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and outcomes. Abstinence-only programs did not.” When you narrow the question to teaching just high schoolers, both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly support a broader sexual education: According to a 2017 study by Leslie Kantor and Nicole Levitz in the journal PLOS One, “More than 89 percent of parents that identified as Republicans or Democrats support including a wide range of topics in sex education including puberty, healthy relationships, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases and birth control in high school.” Parents role: How? The majority of sex education should be relationship education starting in the preschool years. Building solid relationships at home: If parents consistently meeting their needs in healthy ways, kids grow up feeling loved, important, safe, accepted for who they are, and able to trust other people; this becomes the template for all future relationships teens who feel loved have best boundaries= high deservability Learn and practice relationship skills at home: have a voice, be assertive, resolve their own conflicts, set boundaries, stand up for themselves, and get their needs met with their parents and siblings; take skills to relationships with peersè dating relationships Teach girls to become aware of & trust their gut: aware of their internal alarms that go off at critical decision points, and how to get quiet and go inward in order to know what is right for them get clear about their sexual boundaries when they are alone and quiet, avoid making bad choices in the heat of the moment Why might they ignore alarm? Like the boy, not want to be lame, fear he’ll move onto hotter girl, feel behind, want to get it over with Dr. Jordan discusses the effects of alcohol and drugs on girls vulnerability and ability to set boundaries. Need to teach teens how to connect in nonsexual ways; hookups are often done because girls feel lonely and disconnected. Dr. Jordan discusses how to teach kids about consent throughout childhood so they are prepared to respect and take care of themselves, their friends, and their partners. Sex ed thus is a series of talks and education all along the way; not a one and done. The quality of your relationship is key: does she feel safe bringing her questions & concerns to you? Trust that it won’t go anywhere? Won’t be judged? Will try to see from her point of view,; ask before you give feedback or offer info. Good article on normal puberty in girls & boys For more information on Dr. Jordan and his programs, visit his website at www.drtimjordan.com
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How to Teach kids to Let Go and Not Sweat the Small Stuff Nov 03, 2022

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Show Notes: Girls can learn to let things go and not sweat the small stuff to avoid being stressed out. Learn to catch themselves when they are ruminating and switch it by bringing themselves to the present moment and reminding themselves of their truth. Practicing self-compassion also helps girls to destress and not sweat the small stuff. Girls can imagine someone they trust is in their head, what would that person be saying to them about a situation or feeling, and then say that to themselves vs. their negative thoughts. They can also remember that people have experienced what they are going thru and they got thru it; thus they are not alone and they do can overcome the experience. $86,400 analogy: don’t allow 10 seconds of negativity to color the rest of their day. Focus on what they do have control over, i.e., their feelings, thoughts, and reactions to people and events. Parents need to not add their own emotions to their daughter’s experiences because they’re having enough trouble dealing with their own roller coaster of emotions. To understand more deeply your daughter’s emotional life and how to best support her, check out Dr. Jordan’s online course, Parenting girls: The challenges girls face today with their feelings and friends and what they need
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What to ask your daughter instead of, “How was your day?” Oct 27, 2022

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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?” We have a very narrow vision for who is a hero, who is brave, and who is a leader. Because of that, most girls don’t see themselves as those things because they aren’t a first responder, team captain, professional athlete, or the popular queen bee. Dr. Jordan offers listeners a long list of ways girls show courage, power, and leadership. We need to better notice and affirm those qualities in our girls so that they start seeing themselves in that light. Dr. Jordan also offers 12 conversation starters for the dinner table to instigate deeper and more insightful conversations. These questions will get you passed mumbled 1-word answers to the standard question: “How was your day?” These could also be used to create deeper conversations around your holiday dinner tables to direct talk away from superficial gossip or politics. Conversation starters: Were you able to: not let words bother you? Avoid peer pressure? Handle a conflict directly & peacefully? Find these and other great questions on our new poster for families printed onto sturdy and waterproof synthetic paper on my website at www.drtimjordan.com For 202 great, insightful questions to ask around the nightly dinner table, during car rides, or around the holiday table, check out my Dinner Dialogue cards too at www.drtimjordan.com
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When and Why Youth Sports Went off the Rails Oct 20, 2022

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Show Notes: Learn in this podcast when and why youth sports changed into a commercialized business that is detrimental to children. Dr. Jordan retraces the history of youth sports starting from the early 1900s through today. This history includes influences such as worries about immigrant children roaming the streets unsupervised, the depression, the new pay-for-play model that emerged post-depression, the self-esteem movement, the rising cost of a college education and the dream of attaining a college scholarship, the advent of travel leagues and showcase events, and the early specialization in a single sport movement. Dr. Jordan also describes the fears parents experience about their children getting behind other kids as far as athletics which drives up their intensity, anxiety, and willingness to forfeit family time for tournaments and travel teams. Dr. Jordan also lays out the facts about how few athletes attain division 1, 2, and 3 scholarships for sports, and how few of high school athletes actually play sports in college and make the professional levels. Dr. Jordan encourages parents to make conscious choices about athletic teams and coaches and sports based on their child’s and family’s needs and to avoid making choices to keep up with their peer’s experiences. Some articles for you to read for more in-depth information on this topic: When did competitive sports take over American childhood? 9-20-13https://www.theatlantic.com/author/hilary-levey-friedman/ https://time.com/4913687/how-kids-sports-became-15-billion-industry/ how your child’s rec league turned into a $15 billion industry, Sean Gregory, Time 9-4-17 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-tommy-john/minimize-injury-maximize-performance/9780738235288/ Tommy John III on youth sports Linda Flanagan researched the state of youth athletics and wrote the book “Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids’ Sports — and Why It Matters For more information on Dr. Jordan and his resources for kids and parents, check out his website at www.drtimjordan.com
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Why is your child’s teacher quitting her job? Oct 17, 2022

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Listen in to this sobering conversation as two teachers discuss the challenges they are facing with students, parents, and the educational system post covid.
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How Not To Raise An Entitled Brat Oct 06, 2022

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How sure are you that you’re not raising an entitled brat? We all have our best intentions in mind, but can we be absolutely sure we’re not leading our kids down the wrong path? Adults these days worry that we are raising a generation of entitled and indulged brats. Employers complain that millennials walk into their first jobs expecting the corner office without putting in the time and effort. What's the solution? Let me share a true story I heard of how a father decided to teach his son a lesson on responsibility and grit. Look for Dr. Jordan's new book for young adults and their parents entitled Letters From My Grandfather: Timeless Wisdom For a Life Worth Living.
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