A Safe Place for Feelings
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
When your son or daughter is feeling down, where does he or she turn to for help? As a parent, it's good to give your child a safe place to express his or her emotions. John and Danny give some tips for helping your kids work through their feelings.
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| 0:00.0 | As a dad is kind of easy for me it comes naturally to kind of sweep my feelings under the rug |
| 0:08.4 | pretend they don't exist I'm a rock I'm an island I don't break there are times though to do that to press forward and get the job done and not waiver or |
| 0:21.0 | Get teary but it's also good to let my kids see I got feelings too and to also help |
| 0:28.3 | them see that they've got feelings and we can talk about those feelings. |
| 0:34.4 | I've learned, I'm a little late to the party, but I've learned it's good for me to really |
| 0:39.1 | plumb some of what my kids are feeling to make sure I'm understanding them and getting to know their hearts. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Werther. He's in charge of our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the family and |
| 0:53.4 | Danny and I'll talk in just a moment, but let's go ahead and hear a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with Josh and |
| 0:59.2 | Christy Straub, who have written a great kids book. It book called What Am I Feeling? |
| 1:04.0 | It's about helping kids and parents gauge emotions. |
| 1:08.0 | What are some consequences when we or our children, which is the topic of our program |
| 1:14.3 | have unresolved emotions what typically happens well and it's funny because we're |
| 1:19.4 | talking about kids right we wrote this as a kids book and we did it intentionally because we wanted it to get into the hands of more adults. |
| 1:28.0 | So they can read it too. |
| 1:29.0 | Really this is for us. Because so many of us grew up in a home where emotions wasn't talked about and a lot of us grew up in homes where certain emotions were maybe punished or dismissed or minimized. |
| 1:43.1 | And for everyone who's listening, I think just to take that pause, that step back to see like |
| 1:47.9 | really where do I come in on this spectrum because we all come in carrying emotion but if you ask most people today like how are you |
| 1:56.4 | feeling or you know how you doing you know we just saw you guys how you doing busy |
| 2:00.5 | good none of these are feelings feelings. We're just busy. |
| 2:04.6 | Honestly, we're overwhelmed. |
| 2:06.6 | We don't really know what we're feeling, but they're all there under the surface. |
| 2:12.1 | And so if we can teach adults to then teach kids, |
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