Connecting with a Strong Personality Child
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Most parents have at lease one child with a strong personality, John and Danny discuss who the strong-willed kids are in their homes, and Jim Daly talks with Becky Harling about this topic as well. She'll even share how she's learned to receive feedback from her kids about her parenting.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember a conversation we had with a mom who said well I'm not sure but I I think one of my kids is strong-willed and I kind of just |
| 0:09.9 | inside chuckled and thought you know if you've got a strong-willed child. |
| 0:14.8 | They make their presence known without any doubt. |
| 0:19.1 | And I've got a couple of strong-willed kids. |
| 0:21.6 | It was challenging until we learned to kind of lean into some of that. |
| 0:25.7 | And today we're going to offer some really practical ideas for you if you know you have a strong-willed |
| 0:30.7 | child or maybe you just think you have one. These are |
| 0:33.8 | going to be great principles. I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Werta who heads up |
| 0:38.0 | our focus on the family parenting team and of your two kids are one or are both of them, Danny, a strong-willed? |
| 0:46.0 | I'd say my daughter, Lexi, she's the more determined, and I'll give an example. |
| 0:50.0 | I appreciate that little change in the perspective. |
| 0:53.0 | Strong-willed kind of feels a little bit negative. |
| 0:56.0 | Determined. |
| 0:57.0 | Super determined. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah. And it plays out this way. |
| 1:00.0 | So she'll say, I'm going to get up at six in the morning and do all these things and she does. |
| 1:06.0 | My son will say I'm going to get up at six in the morning and it may be seven-ish, |
| 1:09.7 | seven-30-ish and it'll be it would be a great idea to get up at six for my son for my daughter |
| 1:14.5 | she's up at six or maybe 10 minutes to six she's doing her devotions consistently she's made my breakfast |
| 1:21.8 | she's packed my lunch, and I mean she's got this |
| 1:26.7 | structure that she has decided she wants to create and she is determined to keep it and she that plays out other pieces in her life |
| 1:34.8 | it's not the structure though that makes for a strong-willed kid is it no well it's a |
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