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#324: How to Defeat Messages That Steal Our Kids Self-Esteem with Melody Pourmaradi

Parenting Beyond Discipline

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We're All Taught to Be Good Girls

Erin says she was always told to be a good girl by her well-meaning parents. She and other girls think about what it meant when that was requested of them. They came up with the message: We should dim our voices, only speak if we're spoken to. And meanwhile, they say, let's give the same messages to girls. But you know, they shouldn't be unique to boys," Erin writes.

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