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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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How do you respond when your child messes up? Danny tells John about how he responded to a time he was disappointed in one of his kids. You'll also hear Dr. Kathy Koch and Jim Daly discuss healthy ways to affirm your kids when they're trying.
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| 0:00.0 | It's so easy to encourage your child when he or she is well-behaved in doing what you want. |
| 0:09.0 | But what about when they mess up, when they make an excuse, when they |
| 0:13.0 | deliberately do something that disappoints you. How do you respond then? |
| 0:18.0 | Mom, dad. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:21.0 | Danny where to who heads up our parenting team and Danny I'm sure |
| 0:24.4 | there have been moments when at least one or two when you've been disappointed as |
| 0:28.6 | a dad and I don't know about you but I can kind of confused in those moments. It's sort of like should I be correcting and addressing or should I be chill? |
| 0:38.1 | Should I just say I'll talk to you later? Maybe there's some leverage I have. What do you do? |
| 0:44.0 | What have you done? |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, you know, it's challenging because you have a lot of emotion with disappointment, right? |
| 0:49.0 | They could get pretty toxic fast. |
| 0:50.0 | And I've had moments where I've been disappointed because I expected something different |
| 0:54.6 | from my kids knowing who they are and what the opportunity was that was in front of them. |
| 1:00.0 | There's one that particularly stands out. |
| 1:01.6 | It wasn't that that long ago. It's just a couple years back with my daughter at church. |
| 1:07.0 | There's a girl from a treatment center that was at the church and she was sitting by herself, absolutely by herself. |
| 1:12.0 | And now we were singing at the end. |
| 1:13.9 | And Heather told Lexi, hey, why don't you go talk to that girl? |
| 1:18.4 | And she refused. |
| 1:19.6 | And then I talked her. |
| 1:21.0 | I said, hey, just open up a conversation with her. |
| 1:24.1 | You are so conversational, you're social, your life giving, you do that at school, you do that |
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