The Teen Girl Handbook: Faith, Friendship, & Purpose | Rachel Jankovic
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You say that you want terrible teenage daughters. The power of faithful femininity is something that is terrifying. Terrible in the sense that it is a fearsome force. Something that really the world is afraid of. I don't think girls should be holding each other's hands. I am talking about girls amongst themselves cultivating a weird kind of handsiness with each other. If something convicting comes up as a Christian, you're like, I can't believe she would think that that's not appropriate. I'm saying you be willing to ask the Lord if that's true. You don't have time to waste. When you're young, you feel like you have time to waste. But there's a lot of good work to do that requires diligence and faith and work.
And I love to see teenage girls getting serious about that work.
Many parents wonder how to raise daughters who are wise, resilient, and grounded in their faith. Today's guest, Rachel Jankovic, wife, mother of eight, and author, believes that we need stronger, wiser women, and that work really starts early. Her new book, No Time to Be Dumb, offers practical biblical guidance for teenage girls and their parents. We discuss friendships in this episode, how to start reading the Bible, modesty, physical affection, being the only Christian in your family, and why this book is also for moms, but really for teenage girls. Watch this episode on Culture Apothecary on Spotify or Real Alex Clark on YouTube. Please welcome author Rachel Jankovic to Culture Apothecary. When you say girls don't have time to be dumb, what does that mean?
Like, what dumbness are we pretending is harmless?
All kinds of dumbness. But the title is really a play on both this is no time in the world to accommodate women being dumb, however old they are. And also, you don't have time to waste. When you're young, you feel like you have time to waste. But there's a lot of good work to do that requires diligence and faith and work. And I love to see teenage girls getting serious about that work, not not thinking we just have a lot of time to waste until our real life starts. And how old are your kids? 21 down to three. So right now I have a daughter's 21, 20, 18 and 16. So when I wrote this, I did have four teenage daughters when I started it. And I guess so four girls and four boys.
you say that you want terrible teenage daughters? That sounds like a nightmare to most moms.
So what does that mean? That is a reference to Song of Solomon. Like, who is she who looks out of the morning fair as the moon? I think terrible as an army with banners that the power of faithful femininity is something that is terrifying to the world. It's just not terrible in the disrespect, nasty kind of a way, but terrible in the sense that it is a fearsome force. It's something that really the world is afraid of.
What do you think a 15-year-old girl should be practicing now that will make her a dangerous 30-year-old woman?
Really, the main thing that comes out in this book is wanting women to make their faith, to act like what you believe, what you say you believe, actually should shape everything that you're doing. And for many girls, this book is targeting girls who were raised in the faith. raised in church and whatever, there comes a time when you have to say, but do if I believe this, if I believe that this is the case, then that should impact the decisions I'm making and not just whatever my parents said is the thing that I'm kind of kicking against or pushing against. But like, actually, do I believe this? And what does that mean for my behavior? What does it mean for what I am going to do and what I'm going to pursue and think about and be like and let shape me like how many things and
So many teenage girls in today's world are passively being shaped by whatever happens to be around them, whatever they happen upon on social media, whatever friends they happen to be with. And so this is really kind of a... a call for girls to think like, okay, if you're a Christian, that means something about how you're going to live.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:57
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What does Rachel mean by ‘No Time to Be Dumb’ and why should teenage girls take it seriously?
7:57–30:01
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What practical habits build maturity and emotional self-control before marriage?
30:01–40:54
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How can a teen start reading the whole Bible without getting overwhelmed?
40:54–1:18:42
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