Encouraging Your Child's Strengths
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Your child has special gifts and talents. A big key to being a good parent is recognizing and encouraging those abilities in your son or daughter. John and Danny discuss what it looks like to draw out the gifts in your child. Featuring Rhonda Stoppe.
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| 0:00.0 | Every child you raise is designed by God and if you've been parenting for any |
| 0:07.3 | length of time you know no two kids are alike. I've got some creatives I've got some detail-oriented kids. We have six. They're all |
| 0:16.0 | different and today we're going to encourage you to learn about and then draw out the best |
| 0:20.9 | in your child. I'm John Fuller joined by my focus colleague |
| 0:24.8 | Dr Danny Werta. He leads the parenting team here at Focus and Rhonda Stoppie sat down |
| 0:31.0 | with Jim Daly and me a while back. |
| 0:33.0 | She's an excellent storyteller. |
| 0:34.5 | She adores her kids and she describes here some ways that she learned to connect |
| 0:39.4 | with your sons and their individual giftings. |
| 0:45.0 | Ronda, welcome back to focus on the family. Thanks, it's great to be bad. |
| 0:46.0 | You're sitting there so quiet and polite. |
| 0:48.0 | Boy, those boys have really trained you well, huh? |
| 0:52.0 | I'm sure you've had a few buttons pushed with bringing up boys. What is a memory of yours |
| 0:58.1 | that really sticks out that's kind of the funny example of bringing up boys? |
| 1:01.2 | Oh boy. Well I have had raised two sons and two daughters. |
| 1:04.4 | So you have that perspective. |
| 1:06.4 | You know one that just comes to mind, this is one of my favorite. I love this story. |
| 1:16.4 | When my son Brandon was just a little guy, like six years old, he was in a Christmas program and he had his little red cardigan sweater on and he was |
| 1:20.9 | singing a song out on stage. |
| 1:22.5 | He was so cute. |
| 1:24.3 | And I whistle really loud. |
| 1:26.2 | We live on an 80 acre ranch and when the kids, |
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