119: How to Help Children Make Decisions
The Next Right Thing
Emily P. Freeman
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is for parents, caregivers, or anyone with children in your life who may need help with their next right thing.
Though this episode was recorded just a few days ago, a lot has changed in the world since then as our global community continues to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. I only address the pandemic for a moment at the top of the episode and then continue with the regularly scheduled conversation about helping children navigate their own decision-making posture.
Perhaps more than ever before this is a good time to talk with kids about keeping our minds on just the next right thing in front of us. Listen in.
Links + Resources From This Episode:
- Episode 94: Ask the Second Question
- Too Small to Ignore by Wess Stafford
- Families Where Grace is in Place by Jeff VanVonderen
- Mark 10:15-16
- Grab a copy of The Next Right Thing
- Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
- Download Transcript
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, it's Emily here. |
| 0:02.4 | I recorded the episode you're about to hear just seven days ago. |
| 0:07.1 | And in that time, things have changed drastically in our country. |
| 0:11.3 | As a result of the rapidly evolving situation concerning the effort to stop the spread of |
| 0:16.5 | COVID-19, from the Declaration of a National Emergency to all manner of gatherings being |
| 0:22.6 | canceled or postponed, I thought of postponing this episode and recording a new one in response |
| 0:28.7 | to, well, everything, the closures, the social distancing, the truly unprecedented way, |
| 0:36.3 | things continue to change in this country and around the world. |
| 0:40.3 | But then I decided it was okay to keep this episode as planned for a few reasons. |
| 0:47.1 | Number one, everything's being postponed or canceled right now. |
| 0:51.0 | So those things that I have control over and can keep as normal, I will. |
| 0:56.1 | So today's episode will carry on as planned. |
| 0:59.6 | Number two, I'm a super slow processor. |
| 1:02.9 | If you didn't already know that, maybe you are too, so you get it. |
| 1:06.6 | As the reality of our daily lives shifts, not only daily, actually, but hourly right now, |
| 1:13.2 | I'm not sure what to say yet about everything. |
| 1:15.9 | And three, the truth is, and you already know this, anything I have to say in response |
| 1:20.2 | to this historic situation we now all find ourselves in, will really just be some version |
| 1:25.6 | of what I say every week anyway. |
| 1:28.1 | And that is this. |
| 1:29.6 | All we can do is the next right thing in love. |
| 1:33.6 | It was true last year, last week, and is true today. |
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