Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

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today. So when our kids are overwhelmed our ability to be emotionally safe

helps calm their brains so they can think straight and it's thinking straight

that leads to every major outcome we desire in our kids. We all want our

children to thrive and you'll hear some great ideas about how to do just that

on today's episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daley. Today's guest Dr.

Joshua Straub is an author, family coach, and an expert in emotional

intelligence and he has some fascinating insights on how to help our children

process their own emotions by making your home a safe place to share those

feelings. Really good stuff. I'd agree and without any further ado here's

Josh Straub speaking to a gathering of our staff at Focus on the Family. Not

long ago Christy and I had gotten the mail and there was a bill a very

unexpected bill in the mail and I took it in and I laid it down in front of

Christy and I looked there and I'm like what are we going to do? And she looked

at me and she's like what do you mean what are we going to do? And I said well you

realize like I don't know how we are going to pay this bill. We were not

expecting this bill like I don't know what we're going to do next and she's

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