In this episode our team discusses anger. Young girls often learn to express their anger by watching their parents or older siblings. Anger is recognized as a natural and appropriate response to many frustrating situations or experiences. Learning ways to recognize and express anger appropriately is a much more challenging task. We explore the brain’s response to anger, healthy ways to express anger, and the impact of unhealthy behaviors such as aggression, withdrawal, or denial. Join us as we look at our own experiences and the experiences of our daughters.

In this episode, Dr. Margaux Brown and Dr. Lisa Rice discuss how mothers can grow their relationship with their daughters. With stories and humor, we describe ways to connect with daughters and how this connection needs to adjust as girls develop from middle school to college. Join us as we explore some ideas about sharing experiences, maintaining a healthy separate identity from your daughter, and learning to join your daughter’s world.

Listen in as Dr. Brown and Dr. Culotta discuss the relationship between dads and daughters. The evolution of a strong father-daughter bond is often molded through dad’s roles as parent, coach, taxi driver, and problem-solver. As role models and mentors, fathers help create expectations for future relationships, trust, and self-confidence.

In this episode, we discuss a common problem that frustrates a lot of parents: helping their daughters get somewhere on time and be organized. Drs. Brown, Culotta, and I explore systems that may help your daughter be on time and the idea of consequences, incentives, and process-oriented questions. Listen in as we discuss the challenges of helping our daughters manage time.

Dr. Lisa Rice and Dr. Margaux Brown discussed what happens when you don’t like your daughter’s friend. Alert: You are entering a conflict zone! This triggers mothers’ defensiveness, worry, and protective nature. Daughters may feel frustrated, anxious, and that their opinions don’t matter. Margaux and Lisa discussed four common, unproductive communication patterns and ways to achieve more effective conflict management around this topic.

In this episode, we explore girls' goals at different ages and contexts, such as school, social relationships, or self-exploration. We discuss the importance of goals aligning with our daughters’ interests and strengths. Moms can help their daughters understand processes or steps toward their goals and metrics for measuring progress. A central theme is mothers’ valuable support through understanding and encouragement.

In this episode the three hosts discuss parenting a daughter who experiences rejection and feels disappointed. Whether it is because your daughter does not make a team or is rejected by her peers, helping your daughter through these experiences can be tough. Do you protect her from disappointment, do you let her deal with disappointment on her own, or do something else? Our team discusses some of the dos and don’ts of helping your daughter through these challenging times with examples from our professional experiences and our own lives raising daughters.