The importance of family relationships and friendships for young people
How do friendship problems and sibling relationships affect young people’s self-esteem? How will your own mother-child or father-child relationship help your child’s confidence? Use our articles and activities to address their concerns and bring you closer together.
As your child grows up, their relationships with friends and family will influence their sense of self-worth enormously. As their parent, you'll be a huge influence on their ideas, values and beliefs, and play a crucial role in helping them develop healthy, positive behaviors.
Our articles and activities are perfect for any family with teenagers and pre-teens, helping you open up communication around body image and self-confidence. Use them to break a cycle of poor self-esteem or a preoccupation with appearance.
A secret code for your mother-daughter relationship
How a codeword can improve communication with your teen daughter, helping you offer relationship advice and strengthening your mother-daughter relationship.
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![Dove Words of encouragement: how you can support your child]()
Life can feel lonely for teenagers. Have you considered writing a message of support to your child about being a teenager? Sharing your own experiences, words of wisdom, and encouragement can help you empathize with them and improve your conversations.
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![Dove What is active listening and how can it help you communicate with your child?]()
parenting
mother-daughter relationships
positive talk
talking topics
emotions and behavior
11 to 16 years
What is active listening and how can it help you communicate with your child?Discover the secrets of active listening, and learn how to talk so teens will listen, to improve communication with your young adult.Communicating with teens about the problems they're facing can be difficult – it’s all too easy to say, “You’ll get over it.” But being dismissive can discourage them from expressing their feelings.
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![Dove A Secret Code For Your Mother-Daughter Relationship]()
parenting
mother-daughter relationships
talking topics
generation gap
body image
looks and appearance
emotions and behavior
health and wellbeing
8 to 14 years
A secret code for your mother-daughter relationshipHow a codeword can improve communication with your teen daughter, helping you offer relationship advice and strengthening your mother-daughter relationship.It can be hard for a teenage girl to talk to her mom—or anyone—about a sensitive issue. A private mother-daughter code may help her talk when she’s feeling awkward or unhappy.
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parenting
mother-daughter relationships
positive talk
talking topics
psychology
behavior change
11 to 16 years
The Parent Translator: a tool to tackle communication skillsHow to improve your listening skills and verbal communication to talk effectively to your child & overcome teenage communication problems.Communicating with your child should be easy. But miscommunication is easier. You make a simple comment about what they’re wearing and they storm off, slamming the door. You ask what they had for lunch and they assume it’s an attack about their diet. While you’re just trying to show how much you care about them, their reactions suggest you’re speaking a different language.
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![Dove How to have a great father-daughter relationship]()
You may never have been a girl yourself, but that shouldn’t be a barrier to father-daughter bonding. You want your daughter to grow into a self-confident young woman – and she’s going to need her dad on her side.
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![Dove Differing points of view in your mother-daughter relationship]()
Convincing kids that it’s worth devoting time and effort to schoolwork can be a major source of tension. Here, a mother, Jennifer, and her daughters, Emily and Samantha, give their views on a typical mother-daughter struggle over homework – showing how understanding other people’s points of view in family disputes can reduce anger and upset on all sides.
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What’s going on between your daughter and her friends? What are they texting and messaging each other about? To get the inside story, we talked to girls around the world about what’s most important to them: their friends.
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![Dove Confident Me at Home]()
Join us to help young people develop positive body confidence while they learn at home using our confidence-boosting mini lessons and self-esteem activities.
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Help a girl in your life flip the script on self-esteem challenges.
