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When it comes to music Martina McBride says she has always gravitated towards songs that “portray women with strength.”
It comes as no surprise, then, that the country singer’s biggest piece of advice for her three daughters is to “be a leader, not a follower.”
“I hope they hear that in the back of their heads when they’re in a group,” she adds in a new interview with Babble. “I think it’s important, especially when navigating their way through peer pressure and making a place for themselves.”
With Delaney Katharine, 15, recently enrolling in a new all-girls school for her freshman year, Martina says that keeping track of that group has become a challenge. “She has a whole new group of friends,” Martina, 43, explains. “It seems to be increasing by the day … She says so-and-so is my best friend, and [the next day] she’s my best friend.”
Keeping the lines of communication open — “having some sense of the people she’s hanging out with, and their parents, who they are,” Martina explains — is a priority. “They’re able to talk to me about anything — boys, school pressure, peer pressure, friends — and hopefully that will continue,” the singer reveals.
“Yesterday, [Delaney] said to me that she felt like she can talk to me about anything. That’s such a great thing because I want to be the person that can help guide her and let her feel like she can open up to me. But the only way I can help her is to know what’s going on, to know the truth. I’ve always said, ‘I can’t help you if I don’t know.’”
With that said, Martina says that one-on-one dates are something that won’t occur until Delaney is 16 — and even then, her firstborn “doesn’t seem interested in doing that.”
“Her friends are still going on group dates, so she’s not in a hurry.”
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