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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Encouraging Their Giftings and Identity

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What are your kids passionate about? Danny tells John a story about a passion his daughter developed at a young age. You'll then hear Janel Breitenstein speak to Jim Daly about teaching your kids to find their identity in who God says they are, not in what others think of them.

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0:00.0

As your children are growing up, it can be really fun to see them develop a passion for something.

0:08.0

I watched my girls express a real passion for creativity, for art, for making things beautiful.

0:17.0

My oldest son had this passion for order and for architecture kind of things and expressing himself on paper and they all

0:26.7

had something different going on and as they're adults it's fun to see some of those

0:31.4

things remaining and other things coming in.

0:33.5

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny whereta who heads up our parenting team here and

0:37.7

Danny how about your kids what's a passion you've seen them either earlier expressing and gravitating around or something more recent.

0:46.1

No, I mean I think it's true we get to see the different passions unfold in our kids and man what a what a beautiful window that is my son was

0:54.0

woodworking and drum drumming playing the drums and then playing basketball

0:59.7

but I still remember my daughter when we went to this event downtown.

1:04.7

It was like an imagination creativity event and we were walking all throughout downtown and

1:09.4

it started to rain so we went inside of a building just to wait it out I wanted to

1:13.4

catch the entire thing that's how that's kind of how I am and we saw this one

1:18.2

corner area that had not been explored by us so we decided to go there and there was a performance of

1:24.8

silk you know aerial silk performance about to take place and my daughter

1:30.8

said hey can we stick around and just watch and see what this is?

1:34.0

And I said, sure, I was kind of curious too.

1:36.0

So we watched that and about halfway through

1:38.0

and my daughter said, I want to do that.

1:40.0

And that's where her love for aerial acrobatics began.

1:44.1

She was about fourth, fifth grade, and now is a professional aerial acrobat

1:48.7

and is hoping to join the circus with Circus Soleil.

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