Sometimes one of the best ways you can encourage your child in their faith is to just be open and to have honest conversations about a key struggle you might have had or that they might be going through. It could be hard for the

moment but it's worth it in the long run. I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by Dr.

Danny Werta. He leads our parenting department and let's return to a conversation that we had

some episodes back. It's Sheila Irwin, the mom of the Christian filmmakers The

Irwin brothers and in a previous episode she shared how she brought her sons up but they have

very different personalities. Sheila I'm struck by something you said a few

minutes ago and that was that you told John that he learns differently and that that's a gift.

I'm just thinking there are parents struggling with that because I don't see it as a gift.

I see it as a deficit.

So connect that to maybe the child who isn't creative.

And I see that as a deficit.

How do I help spark a dream?

Yeah, well every child's different,

and God's got a plan for that child and for that family.

We have a thing in our house that says every family has a story in our den, big plaque thing.

And so for John, it became, because John is not so directly focused,

that John can be focused on five things at one time. That is unique. You know, and he has to, he needs to be because of what he does.

And so God, I think approaching it

that we are fearfully and wonderfully made,

whether if God gave us this disadvantage, he's going

like Paul said, I must decrease and he must increase anyway.

So it's all about Jesus and him taking what he has put into us. So we didn't want John to think, oh, you're, you know, you're not, you know, this is going to be hard and you're not going to make it. And now we did bring John home to homeschool him, the best thing we ever did for John, because by second grade, he was reading grade level and making a, I mean he's, because John has an extremely high IQ and a photographic memory

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