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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Bad Behavior and Doing Activities

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Any parent will tell you that you don't have to train your child to misbehave. But what if the reason your child is acting up is because he or she is doing too many activities. John and Danny talk about how to discern if your child is involved in too many things. Featuring Dr. Kevin Leman and Jean Daly.

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0:00.0

Every parent with young kids is going to tell you that you don't have to teach your child how to misbehave.

0:09.0

And the ways you discipline your child in those early years as they misbehaved are going to have a

0:14.8

big impact in helping your kids learn good behavior.

0:19.7

I'm John Fuller here in the studio with Dr. Danny Werta. He runs our focus on the family parenting team. And Danny,

0:26.5

you have spent a long time working with families.

0:29.3

What are some of the more common mistakes you see

0:32.2

for parents with young kids? You know I've been seeing

0:35.1

this happen more and more frequently now and that is tolerating, tolerating out of

0:40.2

wanting their kids to be happy in this fear that maybe they'll have mental health issues if I correct them too much.

0:46.1

There's just too much pressure and they need reprieve from a world that is just upside down and chaotic.

0:52.4

That's not helpful to a child. They need warm

0:55.3

sensitivity and they need guidance and some parents tolerate tolerate they

0:59.4

feel like, okay I'm putting up with a lot and then they explode and they creates a lack of trust then you have some parents that

1:06.4

want to control everything out of that anxiety that they don't want disorder and and so those are those are common mistakes that parents make and their

1:13.5

imperfection of trying to guide their kids and disciple them. And I love Proverbs

1:18.7

1531 that says that really the person that listens to life-giving reproof will be among the wise.

1:26.3

Do we teach our kids that?

1:27.3

I'm inviting you into something pretty amazing.

1:30.2

When I correct your miss behavior, you know, when you missed, I want to give you some

1:37.0

correction to give you life.

1:40.2

And the more they can trust that in a relationship that's sensitive and warm and you understand the fact that man you're you're gonna misbehave it's okay, but I'm gonna I'm gonna correct you and I'm gonna guide you and redirect to you.

1:52.8

Within that context, you will have a child that matures

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