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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Encouraging Your Child’s Talents & Abilities

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Your child is uniquely designed by God with special talents. John and Danny discuss the power of a parent's encouragement, and Jim Daly and Dr. Kathy Koch bring up how to recognize what your child is good at.

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0:00.0

Think about how your child is uniquely designed by God with special abilities,

0:08.9

special insights, and special approaches to life.

0:13.0

Like a couple of my kids, at least a couple, are very artistic.

0:16.0

They see beauty in the ordinary and they have this ability to capture it on paper or through

0:22.2

a camera lens. A couple of my kids are very structure oriented, they're

0:26.7

operational, their systems, they're efficient. One of my kids is just like totally out of the box. So out of the box I have to sometimes

0:35.2

slow down and digest and say, did you mean this? Oh, you meant that. I think you meant that?

0:41.8

My children are this wonderful bundle of differentness, all created by

0:45.9

God and your child is as well. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny, who heads up our parenting

0:52.1

team and Danny your your

0:54.0

children have unique gifts and abilities what are some of those they do of course they're

0:58.8

all from for me right John you yeah they're all from they're all from

1:01.8

have just teasing.

1:03.7

I'm teasing, this is funny when we, when we, as parents, try to take ownership of our kids,

1:08.4

unique talents.

1:09.4

They can be like us, but then it's not because of...

1:11.4

It's definitely not from us, definitely not from us. God has given each of our kids

1:15.2

their own unique talents and gifts to be given away to other people as they love and learn to love

1:20.7

other people and bring glory to God not themselves and I love to think about that and so with my kids as I consider what what gifts and towns God has given to them.

1:30.4

My daughter she's she's still a singer even with the vocal cord stuff she's got going on, still

1:34.8

sings, love hearing her sing.

1:36.8

She's an artist and sometimes we'll paint together and she's a professional aerialist.

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