Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes the importance of parents spending time together so that when the last child leaves the nest, they haven’t become strangers. Dr. Jordan describes the ‘empty nest divorce […]
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Description: Learn how your daughter’s connectedness to parents, family, community, and culture is more predictive of their mental health than their history of adversity. Dr. Jordan also describes how the timing of adversity makes a
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What Buffalos and Lions Can Teach Your Daughters About Facing Adversity Dr. Jordan offers 2 powerful metaphors about how your daughters can learn to face and overcome adversities. Unlike cows, buffalos charge directly into storms,
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The reason the butterfly pushes against the sides of her cocoon is to push fluids down the length of her wings in order to strengthen them in preparation for flying. It was this struggling that allowed her to be ready to survive and thrive.
And so it is with our children.
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Your Daughter Comparing Herself to Other People is a Soul Killer Do you ever hear your daughter negatively comparing herself to other people and feel at a loss as to how to help her? Today’s
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How Parents Can Teach Daughters to Stop Overwhelming Rumination Does your daughter get overwhelmed by overthinking and overanalyzing everyone and everything in her life? If you have a middle or high schooler living under your
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Stop doing for kids what they can and need to do for themselves so that, like the great barrier reef, they can learn to grow strong, vibrant, and resilient.
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A Holiday Wish: Look For Kindness in Others and You Will Find More of It Election: discouragement, people pushed to extremes, culture and families can feel fractured, polarized: Rousseau believes man is naturally good but
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The Best Antidote For Anxious, Stressed Out Teenage Girls The best antidote parents can teach their teenage daughters for dealing with the stresses in their lives is to learn to focus on what they
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Dr. Jordan describes how parents can help their daughter make good sense of the adversities she’s faced so that she doesn’t lose sight of who she really is or see her self-esteem drop. A crumpled
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Parents who worry that their daughter is overindulged, spoiled, or ungrateful can use the “George Bailey effect” to help them become more grateful for the people, experiences, and material things in their lives. In the
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Mr. Shaibel from The Queen’s Gambit If you don’t believe that mentors make a difference, check out the influence of custodian Mr. Shaiblel on 9-year-old orphan Beth Harmon in the popular Netflix series The Queen’s
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When it comes to parenting, it’s the small stuff that matters most. Not only do they matter, they may be the most consequential things our children experience. Whether you are aware of it or not,
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Some of the most mature, deep, socially-emotionally intelligent adolescent girls I know feel lonely and out of the loop with peers, making it hard to find their tribe. It used to shock me, but no
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The long-term effects of the covid pandemic on children will come as a result of many factors, chief among them the level of connectedness they experience. We can take some lessons from previous disasters to
The stories of fictional characters like Moana, Rey, and the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy can help your daughter reframe her adolescent challenges as a normal part of her heroine’s journey and to relax and enjoy
There is a prevailing myth that states that where you go to college is critical and it’s the most important predictor of success in life. High school seniors are making their final choices about what college
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Every girls needs to learn to reframe, tame, and love their anxiety. Unfortunately, most girls tend to have a complicated relationship with anxiety. They judge it, get frustrated by it, and fear its presence. All
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We are wired for kindness After being inundated for months with scary news about covid, the election, a depressed economy, and recently the capitol riot, we’d all do well to focus our attention on a tried-and-true remedy
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As the calendar page turns to 2021, I encourage you to set intentions for the new year by beginning with the end in mind. This concept was popularized in Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of
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