Help When It's Hard to Connect: Support for a Dad Who Can't Relate His to Tween

In this episode, we’re discussing a question from a mom wondering how to help her husband relate to their tween girl. We talk about dads and daughters and how this question points to an even bigger issue—how parents can respond to kids who feel different from or even difficult to them. Attachment science points us to two mirroring needs—comfort and delight—that we can use to connect to our kids, even when connection feels hard. Here’s the question— “My husband has started struggling with his interactions with our almost 13-year-old daughter. He just cannot relate to her emotions, feelings, and experiences anymore. I would love to know how to help him build a better relationship with her, so he does not continue to struggle.”

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Help When It's Hard to Connect: Support for a Dad Who Can't Relate His to Tween is an episode from Growing Connected with Dr. Jeffrey and Amy Olrick by Dr. Jeffrey and Amy Olrick and Christian Parenting.

This episode is 35:15 long.

This episode was published on Nov 3, 2021.

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