God Has a Plan for Your Strong-Willed Child
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
If you're parenting a strong-willed child, you know there are unique challenges that come with their bold opinions and emotions. John and Danny give an overview of principles for parenting strong-willed children. Featuring Wendy Speake and Amber Lia.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.7 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | I had somebody once observed me they weren't sure if their child was strong-willed or not and I thought well then they're not because if you've got a strong real child you know it they're challenging you at every turn. They have bold opinions, strong emotions. |
| 0:27.2 | They don't live life halfway. |
| 0:30.5 | Parenting a strong-willed child has a lot of challenges to it, but those kids have a lot of strengths that you can nurture as a child. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Danny Huerta, who's the Vice President of Parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family. |
| 0:43.8 | And last episode we started on this topic of strong-willed kids. |
| 0:48.1 | Danny, you had some great insights in the previous episode, but what are some traits that we can see in our strong-willed kids that bear nurturing and fostering and growing? |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, really what I would suggest for parents to do and focus in on the growing of traits that will make a huge difference in a strong-willed child's life is teaching them empathy. What is it that they see in another person? |
| 1:14.3 | Because they can bring their opinion very, very well. |
| 1:16.6 | Now take some time to look at what the other is in the other person. |
| 1:19.6 | Compassion, humility, servanthood, right, being able to serve and having flexibility of mind. |
| 1:27.7 | What are other ways to look at this and that and maybe patience as well? These traits can be taught whenever there isn't conflict |
| 1:35.0 | and or maybe you're going back to when there was conflict and figuring out |
| 1:39.0 | what would be the necessary tools to make it work well because a strong-wheel child is wanting to influence, |
| 1:46.2 | help them learn how to influence well. And in working on these traits, they will begin to learn that and it will create a foundation that will create a great |
| 1:56.8 | steadfastness in their relationships because they're strong with them. |
| 2:00.1 | That's good. |
| 2:01.1 | And let's go ahead and turn now to a conversation Jim Daly and I had with Amber Leah and Wendy speak |
| 2:06.8 | Wendy encouraged us his moms and dads to get up above the moment and to see down the road and to trust God's plan for our |
| 2:16.6 | strong-willed kids. So we've laid that good groundwork in terms of relying on the |
| 2:22.4 | Lord and his spirit to work through us and being more like him and the parenting so we've covered disrespect and back talking very similar |
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