Mentoring Teen Girls

Pinpoint a Passion

Help your daughter cultivate a passion, Dawn says. Most young girls need some kind of anchor—a sport, journaling or yoga—that they can turn to when life gets stressful, she says. "Then, they can go out and have the boy issues, and they have their anchor and core [to turn to] and they can stay true to themselves while they go out and dabble around in life," she says.