Encouraging Your Child's Dreams
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, it's fun to see your child dream about who he or she wants to become. But what do you do when a child's dream doesn't work out? John and Danny discuss how to be an encouragement to your son or daughter even when his or her dream falls apart. Featuring Shelia Erwin.
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| 0:00.0 | I think one of the funnest things about being a dad has been seeing my |
| 0:06.2 | children dream and you know what what are you going to be what I'm what do I want to be |
| 0:11.4 | when I grew up I want to be a lawyer I want to be when I grew up? I want to be a lawyer. |
| 0:13.3 | I want to be an architect. |
| 0:14.3 | I think I might want to be a veterinarian, an artist, a sports star, |
| 0:18.8 | a teacher, all of those and more for my tribe of six kids. |
| 0:23.0 | How about you? |
| 0:24.0 | What about your kids? |
| 0:26.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:28.0 | Werta. |
| 0:29.0 | He leads our parenting department here and Danny |
| 0:31.0 | about what age did your kids start dreaming aloud about their futures |
| 0:34.6 | in a way that kind of maybe remained constant because I think there's a very easy |
| 0:38.9 | tendency for kids as they grow to think I'm gonna be policemen, a fireman, whatever, right? |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah, yeah, it's normal for kids to begin to dream at three, four, five years of age. |
| 0:49.8 | I remember my son saying I want to be a professional baseball player. He was around five and he said I'm |
| 0:55.4 | going to play for the Yankees. I'm going to be a catcher for them. It was fun to cream |
| 0:59.4 | with him. Yeah we looked at baseball cars. We were going, oh look at that. |
| 1:02.5 | And we made little baseball cars with little leagues |
| 1:04.8 | so he could continue to dream. |
| 1:06.6 | And then my daughter said she was going to be a singer someday |
| 1:10.0 | and loved, loved to sing. |
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