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Understanding The Girl-Child

By totalfamilylife.com
Family & Parenting Parenting-girl-child
JAN 16, 2015 LISTEN
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Pastor Bisi Adewale
You need to understand your girl-child to be able to raise her well; you have got to know the girl that lives in your house if you must raise her well to become a woman you dream of her to be. I want you to note these very simple things about your girl-child.

DIFFERENT FROM BOYS : Girls are different from boys; you can't raise them the same way. A girl is more delicate and more vulnerable than boys. So you must make more efforts to protect your daughter from bullies, predators, and sexual molesters. So you need to do much more to protect your daughter than you would your sons.

VULNERABLE TO SEXUAL ABUSE : Your girl is very vulnerable to sexual abuse especially when she is young and naive. You need to give her adequate sex education to protect her.

NOT LESS INTELLIGENT THAN BOYS : Never think girls are less intelligent than boys; far for it. In fact, in many schools, girls perform better than boys academically.

OFTEN DOUBT THEIR BODIES : One major problem with an average girl is known as “body doubt”. An average lady hardly believes she is beautiful; in fact, most have some things they hate about their bodies. For some, it is their noses; some, their buttocks; others hate their set of teeth, faces, legs, hair etc. To some, they are too slim while others believe they are too fat. An average young lady sees her breasts as too small or too big. A sizable number of ladies have “body doubt” problems. You will do well to validate your own girl often, until she begins to belief in herself and appreciate the body given to her by God. Always tell your girl she is beautiful.

HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM: “Body doubt” is known to make many young girls to fall in to the pit of low self-esteem. And it leads to low self-evaluation, low self-respect, and self devaluation.

You need to consciously help your daughter to deal with low self-esteem; let her know her worth to God and to you.

Words easily affect them; let her know she is a woman of value a peculiar person; a royal priesthood and joy to mankind. Never use body defects to abuse her; encourage her in failure; never pretend that you have never failed in your life; and appreciate her when she does things right.

WANT TO BE ACCEPTED : Your daughter, like any other lady, wants to be accepted for who she is; she hates to be compared with anybody. Accept your daughter for who she is; she may not be as brilliant as some people but she is definitely brilliant than some people. She may not be as beautiful as some people but she is definitely more beautiful than some ladies. Accept your daughter and stop comparing her with other people……culled from PARENTING GIRLS

Bisi adewale is an international conference speaker on marriage and family life, the author of these best selling books: Secrets of an Irresistible Wife , Hot and Sizzling Marriage , 20 Highways to a successful  Marriage , Before you say I Do , and more than 60 other best selling books on marriage and family life.

He is the president of Family Booster Ministry and College of Marital Success (CMS) (Africa's Premier Marriage Institute), Host of Family Booster Moments on TV, watched in many countries across the globe.

Bisi Adewale also hosts the popular Lagos Couples' Conference and breakthrough for singles' summit

Get a free book from him here, you can buy his books on amazon.com or familybooster.com , join him on Facebook.com/totalfamilylife .

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