Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth asks,

Do your kids ever drive you crazy?

Why did you lash out at your child?

Well, if he hadn't painted the living room furniture with butter

or filled the dryer with water, you know, I never would have done that.

What do you think?

My three-year-old made me crazy?

Now, what happened is that your three-year-old acted in such a way

that it brought to the surface and revealed the fact that you were not thinking sound like.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for Tuesday, March 14, 2017.

Music March 14, 2017. For several weeks, Nancy has been unpacking Titus 2 for us. It's been a very helpful series on what it means to live as a woman for God's glory. This series touches on several practical

topics, and today Nancy will focus on parenting. At the end of the program, hear a piece of

advice Nancy's given to many families with young kids. But now let's get back to the series,

God's beautiful design for women, living Out Titus 2, 1 through 5.

You may remember an article that came out.

I think it may have been the cover of a Time magazine issue in 1995 about the EQ factor.

EQ stands for emotional quotient.

And this article was suggesting that emotional intelligence might be even more important than IQ.

And it was based on a research project that was done by a researcher at Stanford who took four-year-old children one at a time into a room.

And he showed these children a marshmallow.

And he said to them, you can have this marshmallow right now,

but if you wait while I run an errand and don't eat it until I get back, then when I get back,

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