Helping Your Daughter Become a Confident Woman Part 3

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes parents want to take every opportunity to teach and lecture their kids, but as John and Danny discuss, that's not always the best approach. One-on-one time just listening, especially with daughters, can make a big difference too.
Featuring Dr. Meg Meeker.

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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
0:06.8	Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast.
0:11.1	As parents we have an instinct and that is teach my child.
0:16.1	The opportunity is right here, so I want to teach you a little life lesson.
0:20.4	I'm John Fuller along with Danny Huerta and maybe that's just me but I think it's a fairly universal thing Danny that
0:26.9	When we have an opportunity to give a lecture we do and with great intention, right? But the temptation is constantly there. I would say I think we're all guilty of the fact that we want to teach at all moments.
0:40.0	There are times when I really find myself slipping in and I just say I don't care.
0:44.8	This feels really good to me and I know that's making them squirm so I'm just going to keep at
0:49.4	it.
0:50.4	Yeah and you know what it does to especially to teens is I'm just never going to please my parents I'm not good enough
0:55.1	I don't have this I can't get it
0:58.2	There's gonna be a lot of self-doubt or they'll just completely tune out be desensitized to all instruction and say yeah I don't you know I don't want to hear it anymore I just I can't get this and really it's what a parent needs to see is what am I so anxious about because this is about
1:14.0	relationship it's about teaching but it's it needs a balance of
1:18.4	playfulness and connectedness along with instruction along the way.
1:22.5	Sometimes we learn our best life lessons
1:25.2	in moments of mistakes and imperfections.
1:27.8	Well, Dr. Meg Meeker has some insights
1:30.0	about this matter of helping your kids hear you and trust you and let's go ahead and listen in as she talks with Jim Daly.
1:39.0	You know, I was just going to say sometimes the culture, we in the culture are moving so fast, we believe there's in the the culture moving so fast we believers in the culture
1:44.2	moving so fast with work and keeping the home in the right spot and helping the
1:48.1	homework we forget some of these deeper subtle things that need to be accomplished in a child's life.
1:55.9	How do we catch ourselves so it's not just about the grocery list and paying the bills and making
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