Character Traits That Last
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to say something mean to your kids when you're frustrated with them. But what if there was a better way to handle those moments? Jim Daly and Dr. Kathy Koch share some ideas for how to handle difficult situations with your children. Then, Danny and John will bring up how to have patience when it seems like your kid isn't understanding something as quickly as you'd want him or her to.
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| 0:00.0 | So the circumstances were that I had just given my life to Christ after having been a runaway, |
| 0:07.0 | drug abuser, sexually abused, in and out of mental institutions with a single mom and kind of a distant father. |
| 0:15.0 | Anne's life was a mess. She didn't know the first thing about how to be a good wife or mother. |
| 0:21.3 | So focused on the family was like mana to me. Every day, I needed wisdom. I needed guidance. |
| 0:28.8 | I needed the lessons and the teaching that came every day from 11 to 1130 into my kitchen. |
| 0:36.5 | And I know today that my life has changed because of |
| 0:39.6 | Focus on the Family. I'm Jim Daly. Working together, we can give families hope and equip more |
| 0:46.4 | parents like Anne. And thanks to a special match right now, any gift you send will be doubled. Call 800 |
| 0:53.4 | A Family or donate at FocusOn the family.com slash gift. |
| 1:02.5 | If you have a son or a daughter who is acting up or making bad choices or they're just not conforming to the rules or your expectations. Take a breath. There might be a really |
| 1:14.9 | positive, healthy way to deal with some of this. And it's not reactive. It's intentional. I'm John |
| 1:21.0 | Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting team. We're going to hear now from Dr. Kathy |
| 1:25.8 | Cook. She spoke with Focus President Jim Daly |
| 1:28.9 | on his show, and she last time started talking about four ways to help communicate with your kids |
| 1:34.9 | more effectively. And the first way she mentioned was using the word choice when you talk to your |
| 1:40.1 | kids. Let's go ahead and listen to more of the conversation. So there's three more. What are they? Right. I like the phrase you are being careful, |
| 1:47.5 | you are being diligent, you are being other-centered because in reality we are not something |
| 1:53.0 | 24-7, 365, as much as I wish that we were. So if you say you are careful, it sounds like |
| 1:58.8 | they are consistently careful. But when you say you're being |
| 2:01.5 | careful, it reinforces the word choice. And it's action, not character. I love it's, it's character |
| 2:08.0 | showing up in action. Yeah, but what I mean is sometimes as parents, because we don't do that, |
| 2:12.6 | it feels to the child like we're attacking them. Oh yeah,, good point. Their person. Their person rather than their behavior. |
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