Happy International Women’s Day to all of the wonderful, strong and intelligent women out there! This world would not be the same without you, and I’m glad to have an excuse to celebrate you today, even though you deserve celebration each and every day.International Women’s Day is also a great opportunity to start teaching your daughters about the potential they have to be strong women one day. It’s in each and every one of them, but they need you, their parents, to call it out in them. They need you to speak the truth to them about who they are, who they are not, and what their potential really is. Because, as we all know, this is not always a friendly world for our young daughters to be raised in.

A common complaint we often hear about women is that we are “too emotional.” I do believe women can be more focused on feelings than men are. As a medical professional and pediatrician, I have often seen this played out in families I treat. But women being emotional is not a problem. Our emotions become a problem when we don’t know how to channel them in a healthy way.

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