Appreciating What Your Child Enjoys

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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It's very common for each child in your family to have different likes and interests. John and Danny share things their kids enjoy, and how you can still connect with your child, even if you don't enjoy something he or she likes. Featuring Julie Lavender.

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0:00.0	Well with six kids I've had to have a pretty broad perspective on things of interest to them and to me because they're all different.
0:12.3	One of them is an internal processor and loves big ideas. One of
0:17.1	them is into tech and just wants to talk with me about tech and all the latest cool things in tech.
0:23.5	Another is all about the outdoors.
0:25.4	I had to go, I got to go backpacking with her
0:28.1	this past summer and it was great.
0:30.0	They are so very different in their interests.
0:33.6	I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta who leads our focus on the family parenting team.
0:38.5	And Danny, you've spoken multiple times about how you connect with your kids at a point of interest.
0:44.1	Last time you mentioned what kind of silk?
0:46.7	Yeah, the aerial acrobatics.
0:48.2	Aereo acrobatics.
0:49.9	You've shown me some pictures and wow, that's really awesome stuff. Very unnatural for me. And wow, that's really awesome stuff.
0:54.0	Very unnatural for me, John.
0:55.0	And yeah, we love hiking.
0:56.3	We love being outdoors as a family.
0:59.6	My kids and I will work out together and they'll put together some workout plans and I'll just do what they've planned and we enjoy that time together and I know our next clip is with Julie Lavender.
1:10.0	Speaking of that, my daughter and I, we've done soaps together.
1:14.6	And that's been fun to learn from her.
1:16.2	She puts the recipe together, she puts me to work.
1:19.0	We enjoy it.
1:19.5	We enjoy doing that together.
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