Disciplining Your Kids with Love and Limits, Part 5
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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There's no way to keep your children happy all the time. They need to go through their own struggles so they know how to handle tough situations later on in life. John and Danny emphasize the importance of allowing kids to learn resiliency.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
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| 0:11.2 | So you want your kids to be happy, but of course there's no way to keep them happy all the time and it may not be healthy for them to be happy all the time. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Danny W where to and Danny kids have to go through some struggles right? I mean they got to learn tough situations |
| 0:27.6 | Eventually because you're not always going to be there to make them happy and I think most parents would agree with that statement. |
| 0:34.4 | It's in the middle. |
| 0:35.4 | In principle, in the middle of it |
| 0:36.8 | when you're seeing your child either suffer in a safe way, right? |
| 0:42.2 | Or fail that we want to go in and fix it, rescue him. We don't want them to experience those negative emotions. |
| 0:50.0 | Yet it is so important for them for their growth and the development maturity |
| 0:55.9 | dependence on God and overall development of humility as a deep-rooted trait |
| 1:02.2 | because then we know we don't demand happiness. |
| 1:06.0 | It's something that we experience in moments along the way. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not our right to be happy. |
| 1:12.0 | It's a response to things that are happening that are good in our lives and it's not always going to be that way. We're giving them reality. I think we're in a win, always culture, you always should be happy and as parents we get to step in and give reality that |
| 1:27.7 | that's just not healthy and it's going to leave you a bit depressed when you |
| 1:32.0 | find out that that's not even true. So as parents let's step |
| 1:36.2 | in give them some truth and opportunities to experience happiness along the way and then |
| 1:41.8 | that's not the goal of life. |
| 1:43.0 | All right, age appropriate on the messaging here. |
| 1:47.0 | Don't be a little crusher of joy in your child's life. |
| 1:50.0 | I don't hear you saying it's wrong to be happy with your kids. |
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