Helping Your Child Process Disappointment
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
There are moments where your child will encounter disappointment. While those situations can be tough, it's also a wonderful opportunity to train your child to respond with gratitude. John and Danny discuss why it's good to teach your son or daughter to give thanks to God in all circumstances. Featuring Sheila Erwin.
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| 0:00.0 | Like it or not, your child's going to face moments of disappointment and in those |
| 0:06.1 | situations what's in your child's heart is going to come out. How can you |
| 0:10.8 | prepare him or her for those difficult times? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Jean Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Werther. |
| 0:16.5 | He leads our parenting department here at Focus on the Family, |
| 0:19.4 | and let's kick off today's episode with the conversation Jim Daly and I had with Sheila Irwin. |
| 0:25.0 | She's the mom to two sons who have made a lot of films that you know about like I can only imagine. |
| 0:30.0 | And she left I really |
| 0:35.0 | I really understand the encouragement side. I think I tend to be an |
| 0:40.0 | encouraging parent. I don't know that I'm as good getting the boys through |
| 0:46.3 | disappointment and so how do you strengthen both of those areas so you're a good |
| 0:51.5 | encourager yet at the same time you can also |
| 0:54.4 | help them through disappointment or maybe when that disappointment's yours as a parent you know I played |
| 0:59.2 | I played high school sports I thought mama have two boys which I did the Lord was you know gracious they were |
| 1:05.5 | athletic looking but they just didn't like football I mean you, I was a football player and that's okay. I really had to bite my lip, but I guess it was a discouragement a little bit for me, but I had to realize they're different people. They're not me I've lived and breathed it for them |
| 1:23.9 | I was like it's not that important to me dad but how do you manage that as a |
| 1:30.9 | parent yeah well it's not your dream it's theirs yes and and so that's |
| 1:35.9 | one thing you really have to learn and to let it be their dream between them and |
| 1:39.6 | God and not try to push anything on them as far as what you want them to be or to do and you |
| 1:46.6 | don't be a wise parent not to do that. |
| 1:49.0 | Disappointed, we taught our boys that failure is a part of success and you're going to fail. |
| 1:55.0 | There are going to be times when you fail and you're going to have to learn to deal with failure. |
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