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FamilyLife Today®

Embracing Your Kids’ Hard Questions

FamilyLife Today®

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Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Kids & Family, Christianity

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Not having all the answers can be intimidating to parents, but Rebecca McLaughlin encourages us that the closer our kids look into the truth, the brighter Jesus shines.
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0:00.0

I think one of the hardest things, I want to know if you agree, as a parent is when

0:05.0

your son or daughter starts the teen years, usually it's around there and they start questioning

0:10.5

or pushing back or maybe rejecting the faith of their parents.

0:14.7

Yeah, I think that creates a lot of fear in parents because we're afraid of where they

0:18.9

will go with their doubts, with their thoughts.

0:22.3

I think it's easy for some parents to avoid it, but I really believe the greatest thing

0:28.5

we can do for our kids is to have discussion about it.

0:31.4

And I'm so glad our kids were perfect, so they never questioned or doubted.

0:35.6

Now they push back.

0:36.9

Yeah, they asked a lot of questions.

0:38.6

And it was really healthy.

0:50.0

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter

0:54.8

most.

0:55.8

I'm Ann Wilson.

0:56.8

I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app.

1:03.2

This is Family Life Today.

1:16.6

I remember reading a book early in my parenting years because I wasn't raised in a Christian

1:22.1

home called the dangers of growing up in a Christian home.

1:26.1

And I thought, I better read this because I didn't grow up alone, but I'm trying to

1:29.2

lead one now.

1:30.8

And the biggest lesson I took away from it was your children's faith has to be their

1:35.6

faith, not the parents.

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