Handling Emotions Like Jesus
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Is one of your kids more emotional than the others? Danny opens up about the ways his kids expressed their emotions. Plus, Jim Daly talks to professional counselor Debra Fileta who gives some helpful insights on the popular verse, "Jesus wept."
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| 0:32.5 | A few episodes ago, Dr. Danny Wirtad made the observation that emotions are real. We all feel them. |
| 0:38.9 | And especially if you've got a teen who's just all over the map, it's good to normalize those |
| 0:43.4 | things. Emotions are. And Danny, I loved the way you were framing it because you said they're a signal. |
| 0:50.7 | They're an insight. They're a dashboard. And we're going to hear a little bit more today |
| 0:55.9 | about the power of emotions and how normal they are. But you raised a boy and a girl. Yes, I did. |
| 1:03.5 | There are stereotypes about who's more emotional. I just remember one of our teen boys crying at age 12 saying what's wrong with me and all I could say is |
| 1:13.6 | dude everybody goes through this there's just a flood of emotions and hormones right now where |
| 1:18.2 | you're going to find that these days continue every now and then but it's not it's not a life sentence |
| 1:23.6 | no it's not and my son I'd say he was he was a more sensitive one to others around him more |
| 1:30.0 | aware of their emotions more sensitive to that but my daughter was a more emotionally expressive |
| 1:35.6 | one where she man her emotions would pop out all the way from the time she was born and uh from the |
| 1:43.2 | time she wanted to be held all the time and she loved touch so she |
| 1:47.0 | wanted to be held and if you weren't holding her the emotions were coming out and all through |
| 1:52.0 | middle school and high school those emotions would show up in different ways and still now in college |
| 1:58.0 | she filters a lot of life through that emotional lens. |
| 2:02.2 | And it's fun to learn more about her as she does that. |
| 2:06.3 | She'll ask questions kind of filtered through that. |
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