A parent's got a bunch of goals for respect for love for kids to use kind words for peace and quiet around here

and with those goals in mind parents do the discipline that they do. But we'd like to suggest

that while that's an important goal, it's not the most important goal for

parents to be thinking about. How should their kids behave? Well that's Jim Jackson

and you're going to hear more from him and his wife Lynn today on

focus on the family about what the most important goal is when it comes to disciplining your

children.

Your host is Focus president and author Jim

Daly and I'm John Fuller. John we all want to raise respectful, dutiful, wonderful,

maybe should I say perfect, kids.

But when they misbehave, we can often feel confused or feel like the formula is not working.

And that is so true within Christian homes particularly, because we want to follow the rules we want to do

things correctly so that we get the right outcome and sometimes that's hard in

parenting because these little tots are born with temperaments of their own

which we can't always manage.

So if you're in that spot or you're the grandparent and you're observing this,

man, lean in today because this program is going to help you do a better job, I believe, in your parenting role.

Discipline is hard, but we're going to give you some tools today, I think think to make it easier.

And as I said, Jim and Lynn Jackson are our guests and they lead parenting workshops around the world.

They've got three grown children and live in Minnesota.

And together they've co-authored the book

Discipline that connects with your child's heart and that'll be the subject of the

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