67 Episodes

  1. My daughter, who I thought was my son

    Published: 5/10/2024
  2. Blending families

    Published: 5/3/2024
  3. A public apology from a besotted mother

    Published: 4/26/2024
  4. It’s just hair, with Joy Kendi

    Published: 4/19/2024
  5. Moving on

    Published: 4/12/2024
  6. The dating to-do list

    Published: 4/5/2024
  7. The people-making business with Janine Harouni

    Published: 3/29/2024
  8. The perfect trap

    Published: 3/22/2024
  9. Making amends

    Published: 3/15/2024
  10. Being Superwoman

    Published: 3/8/2024
  11. Elbows out with Nadiya Hussain

    Published: 3/1/2024
  12. Coming soon: Season 3

    Published: 2/22/2024
  13. Bonus: The Documentary

    Published: 11/9/2023
  14. Holding on to love: Dear Daughter live

    Published: 6/18/2023
  15. Finding love: Dear Daughter live in Nairobi

    Published: 6/11/2023
  16. Dear son

    Published: 6/4/2023
  17. You are wanted

    Published: 5/28/2023
  18. Trying to conceive

    Published: 5/21/2023
  19. Keep growing, always change

    Published: 5/14/2023
  20. On apples and trees

    Published: 5/7/2023

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Extraordinary letters written from parents to their children with Namulanta Kombo. Sharing parenting advice, family stories and life lessons. Dear Daughter is an award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service about love, life, family, and raising children. It is the brainchild of Namulanta Kombo, a mother on a quest to create a ‘handbook to life’ for her daughter, through the advice of parents from all over the world. Each episode, a guest reads a letter they’ve written to their children (or their future children, or the children they never had) with the advice, life lessons, and personal stories they’d like to pass on. Expect unbelievable true stories, inspirational advice for parents, and moving accounts of families, relationships and raising daughters.Share your letter! What do you want to say to your kids? Or the next generation? Do you have thoughts on motherhood, fatherhood, or parenthood to share? Whether you are a mum or mom, dad or papa, grandparent, uncle, aunt, daughter, son or just want to write a letter, send us a Whatsapp message on +44 800 030 4404 or visit bbcworldservice.com/deardaughter.You can read our privacy notice here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3ZFHNV8v7qgTm1zbKbkwsvR/dear-daughter-privacy-notice