Archive of On the Go Answers from the Ultimate Mother-Daughter Duo

Collection: Having Open-Hearted Communication

How to Ask the “Right” Questions, So Your Daughter Will Actually Answer

“Hey honey, how was your day?” “Fine.” The one word answer. Oh, mama, do we know that one. Right? You try to ask a simple intelligible question to your girl about her day and you may as well be talking to a brick wall for all the answer you get. Or a brick wall that […]

How Do I Teach My Daughter How to Love Herself?

We circle back here often, in our community of big-hearted mamas. The question is so often: how do I teach my daughter how to love herself? We hear you. And we want to start off answering with another question (and perhaps a surprising one): What does God have to do with the mother-daughter relationship? […]

How to Give Your Daughter Space and Stay Connected (at the same time)

It’s a paradox. How do we stay connected with our teen daughter, and yet give her space? She blows hot and cold. One moment we’re the dorkiest, weirdest mom on the earth and she’s shying away from us at the grocery store (What? A good dancing song came on!). Later that night she wants to […]