When Reese Witherspoon made an appearance on podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the conversation covered everything from career longevity to empowerment, but one moment stuck out to us, parents: her message to girl-dads.

“I think this is important,” Witherspoon, who has one daughter and two sons, told Shepard. “It’s so important what you say to your daughters. You write on their mind with a Sharpie. It’s not a dry erase board.”

The Oscar winner went on to explain how much a father’s words and actions shape a daughter’s sense of self-worth and even the kinds of relationships she’ll seek later in life. “The tools of self-confidence, self-worth, what they’re looking for in a partner—you get a lot of that from your dad,” she said.

Shepard, a father of two girls he had with actress Kr

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