Helping Your Child Find Freedom from Perfectionism
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Many unhealthy behaviors are easy to spot. But it may be harder to tell if your child is struggling with unhealthy perfectionism. John and Danny describe perfectionist tendencies in teens and offer advice for overcoming unhealthy thought patterns.
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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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . You know there are a lot of unhealthy behaviors that are pretty easy to spot in a |
| 0:15.6 | teen if they're exploding in anger or they're just laying around unmotivated but you |
| 0:20.9 | might not always notice when your teen is struggling with perfectionism. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm thinking of a teenager who has straight A's, they're involved in every school and church |
| 0:30.0 | activity. |
| 0:31.0 | It looks like they're doing great from the outside, but inside maybe a different story. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Worta. He heads up our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family. |
| 0:42.0 | Danny, describe why parents should be aware of this concept of perfectionism |
| 0:48.0 | and how it might be in their kid driving them to do things and it's really not healthy. |
| 0:55.0 | It really is not, John. I mean that it's so much pressure it can create an overwhelming |
| 1:00.0 | amount of anxiety and for some it may create such stress that they develop a |
| 1:07.7 | disorder from it they can't function well they're trying to be people |
| 1:12.2 | please well anxiety I mean anxiety function well. They're trying to be people please. Well, anxiety. |
| 1:14.0 | I mean, anxiety. |
| 1:15.0 | I have to perform a certain way in order to have any worth or to find love. |
| 1:20.6 | They want to manufacture love. |
| 1:23.0 | Or on the other hand, they may completely avoid things to avoid failure. |
| 1:27.7 | There are many perfectionists that end up saying, |
| 1:29.9 | well, if I can't do it perfectly, I just won't do it at all. Because I don't want to deal with failure. I don't want't do it perfectly I just won't do it at all because I don't want to deal with failure I don't want to do it and |
| 1:36.3 | Those we don't see as much perfectionist many times get praised |
| 1:40.4 | I say man fantastic job and 30% of the population struggles with perfectionism and with |
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