Lewis Howes and a guest discuss how fathers should handle daughters who challenge them. Letting her voice dissent, even if she's wrong, teaches her she can speak up to authority figures and models resistance to patriarchal power. Real strength means sharing power, not dominating it.
If a father allows a daughter to rebel against him, no daddy, and the father goes, wow, I like that you use your voice. You have now given her a prototype on how to handle the patriarchy. That's good.
Yes. As opposed to what do some fathers do to daughters when they rebel against them?
Yeah, maybe they can say something like, you're being irrational, you're being stupid. That's not smart. No, the fact that she's pushing against you, even if it's a bad decision, The act and exercise of regulating and activating that muscle of daring to speak up to a 6-foot-plus father. Right, right. She's bold now, you know, and the mother can empower her. And how the mother talks to you, that the mother is not scared of the father and the father backs off, not capitulate, but backs off. You are now teaching her that strength doesn't mean that I have to, you know, give my power away. Strength means I can share power.
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