Our kids long for affirmation from us, whether they're a little kid saying, did you see that?

Did you see that, dad? Or maybe they're adults saying, hey, look at this. This is new in my life, just gush on them and they will

benefit from your parental affection. Trust me. I'm doing it all the time with my

kids it seems. Well I'm John Fuller here in the studio with Dr. Danny Werta. He's in

charge of a parenting team here at Focus on the Family and let's go ahead and hear a

conversation with Jim Daly. He talked with Matt and Lisa Jacobson and they shared some pretty simple practical ways that they've tried to encourage their kids.

Let's get to your family mottos. I think you have a couple of those.

First of all, these aren't rules, obviously.

Nope. These are mottos.

So what are they?

Well, one of the principal ones is Jacobson's never give up.

And where that gets applied is if the child is given a job to do,

and somehow it's just so hard and I just can't do it,

well, Jacobson's never give up. So you get to stay at it and we work

until the job's done, not until we're tired and don't want to do it anymore.

So and that's something that we've just spoken into their hearts from a very early age.

Do you have a I think you have a wood cutting example right?

Sure.

I would think being from the northwest.

Yeah, that's right. Well, yeah, we have a fireplace and we like a good, Lisa especially likes a good blaze in the winter.

And what I do is I get a couple of cords of rounds. That's the tree cut as a round not cut into firewood and I give the job to the boys and

and I do and in this case I tell them hey you work like a man you get paid like a man but so they're out there working away and then the youngest of at the time the youngest said I just

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