David Eaton: How to Love Your Teenager
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Overreacting with your teen? Author David Eaton knows the anger is real and stakes are high. Grab ideas on how to love your teenager even when they blow it.
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Check out David Eaton's Ministry, Axis to get the latest tools for your child's teen years
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get to today's program, I want you to know that Dave and I were |
| 0:04.8 | perfect parents until we had a child. Exactly. And we used to think there were |
| 0:11.9 | perfect parents, but there are no perfect parents. And that's why we wrote the book |
| 0:16.6 | No Perfect Parents. And we're excited because now we have an online video course |
| 0:21.1 | for you. And you can go through it as a small group individually or even just as |
| 0:26.4 | a couple. And to get that, you can go to familylife.com slash not perfect to find out more. |
| 0:32.1 | Again, familylife.com slash not perfect. |
| 0:40.2 | How do we know if you're raising a sin concealer versus a sin confessor? Is are you |
| 0:44.8 | modeling confession? Is it okay to say, Lord, have mercy on me, a center? How do we |
| 0:52.2 | understand that we're supposed to forgive as we've been forgiven? You know, we |
| 0:57.6 | want to have karma. We want to have like you reap what you sow in many ways, but we have a god |
| 1:02.7 | who's stepped in to reality and stepped in to our world and said, no, you're forgiven. |
| 1:08.9 | Welcome to familylife today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm Ann Wilson. And I'm Dave Wilson. And you can find us at familylife today.com or on the family |
| 1:30.8 | life. This is family life today. |
| 1:45.8 | So we've got David Eaton studio today. David is a teenage expert. That's not really wow. He's |
| 1:52.9 | an expert on raising teenagers because you started a ministry called Axis. David, you tell me, |
| 1:59.7 | you communicate with 200,000 parents and teenagers a month? No, yeah. About what? No, we |
| 2:06.0 | equipped 200,000 parents who have 400,000 tweens and teens in their life. And we help them have |
| 2:13.4 | non-anxious Christ center conversations about culture and about TikTok and about fashion trends and |
| 2:20.3 | about Jesus and about technology. And we want Jesus to be at the center of a family. So that's |
| 2:26.9 | what Axis is all about. I hope every parent listening just lean forward and I need this program. |
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