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You know how you talk to your kids about who they are and their value can really shape the way they see themselves

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Huerta and today we're going to hear from Dr. Kelly Flanagan about

naming the good things you see in your kids.

Here's Jim Daly to start that conversation.

So how do we as Christian parents do a again a biblical job, a godly job of making sure our kids are not you know the rugs not

taken out from under their sense of self-worth yet they have a dose of reality. Yeah.

Well, you know, in the Bible when someone encounters

the unconditional love of God, they're often renamed.

Interesting.

Yeah, and I think, so one of the things,

for instance, since you mentioned soccer, one of the things that we do myself and my my co coach on our soccer teams is

Somewhere near the end of the season after we've gotten to know the kids we do a words instead of a words and we're a words right and so we

we pick a word that we think exemplifies who they are. You need to that child

unique to that child not how they played that child, not how they played,

we write the word on it, we write their name,

the word, and then the definition,

and then we give it to them in a ceremony.

What would be an example?

Does one kid pop out for you?

Oh, yeah.

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