Best of 2025: Cultivating Healthy Emotional Habits with Your Children

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kids are no strangers to big emotions. This can be scary for parents to navigate. Michelle Nietert is a licensed professional counselor, author, and mother of two. With personal stories and expert advice, Michelle provides practical and faith-based tools for parents to guide their little ones through emotions – big and small!

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jim Daly. A Merry Christmas to you and your family. I'm so grateful you've joined us today,
0:07.4	and it's my hope you will listen every day because we're here to offer you Bible-based practical help for your marriage,
0:14.7	your parenting, and your daily walk with Christ. Today, I'm inviting it to join us in ministry.
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0:40.9	Isn't that amazing?
0:42.3	God is so good.
0:44.2	Just imagine the ministry impact we can have, working together to strengthen and save families in the days ahead.
0:51.5	Help us meet this match.
0:53.2	Give today by calling 800 a family or go to
0:56.6	Focus on thefamily.com slash family. Monsters under the bed being teased at school, fear of the dark,
1:07.4	a best friend moving away. You know, kids are no strangers to big, difficult emotions,
1:13.8	and these can be really challenging for parents to navigate. Welcome to a best of 2025 episode
1:19.7	of Focus on the Family with Jim Daily. I'm John Fuller, and today we hope to give you the tools
1:24.7	to help your child manage difficult emotions and ultimately to bring them closer to God.
1:30.2	Monsters under the bed. That one gets me. I think I was afraid of that one. That was a big one. Every bed had a monster under it.
1:36.6	It's funny how you can get under the covers and feel safe. But the good news is I think I grew out of that by 18.
1:43.5	I'm glad for that.
1:45.1	But, you know, these things do affect children.
1:48.0	And on the one side, we can laugh at it now because we know as adults, older adults, that
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