your kids will do what you do and they'll model your relationship.

If you don't tell your kids what to believe about those things, culture and media will.

Do you believe in spanking as punishment?

My parents still feel like they have a lot of control over my life.

How can I respectfully move towards independence?

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How can I instill, first question, how can I instill faith-focused family values and morals in the household?

Well, I think it's a great question because I think today, when you look at the studies based on Gallup and Pew Research, morality and values are continuing to decline in the negative in homes and specifically with

children. And so this is really important that we focus on how can we infuse family values,

morals, and faith in our homes. Here's what I would recommend. Number one, if you want to have a

faith-filled home with family values, pray. And it's something I call it, this is Habits of the Household. There's a great book, by the way, called this. It's called Habits of the Household. And I'd highly recommend you get this book. So if you want to fully understand my answer to this, go on Amazon, buy the book, Habits of the House household, but that one of the number one ways to instill these values is to pray with your family. One of the things that I like to do with my daughter, Arwin, and by the way, this is something I know a lot of other parents do with their kids. I'm friends with people like John and Lisa Bavir and Craig Groschelle and a lot of others.

And I know they do this with their kids is when they're putting their kids down at night. I had a mentor who told me this is what he does once. He has their kids lay on their back and he puts his hand on their chest like this. And he just prays over him. And he said, dear Lord, I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray.

He prays over our kids every single night. And then sometimes he'll have his kids, you know,

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