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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

How to Build Moral Courage in Your Kids (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jill Garner discusses how we can raise morally courageous children, grounded in truth, and able to stand strong against the many temptations of today’s culture. Her book, StrongHeart, gives practical ways that parents can instill humility, gratitude, other-centeredness, respect, GRIT, and bravery in the heart of their child. Help your child discover all of who God has called them to be!

 

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0:00.0

We want to pray for our children that they would discover and feel that sense of God's pleasure, right, when they are operating in God's will for their lives, that we want them to feel that sense of God's pleasure.

0:12.4

That's Jill Garner, encouraging us with some very practical ways that we can raise children with strong hearts.

0:18.9

Welcome back to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly and Jill is back

0:22.0

with us again today. We're looking forward to hearing more from her about how to equip our

0:26.6

children to be morally courageous in this world. Your host is Focus President and author Jim

0:32.6

Daly and I'm John Fuller. John, last time Jill began describing what it means to be a strong heart. You're

0:38.6

going to hear that over and over again. I think it's a good thing. Just think about that with our kids,

0:43.0

especially in the culture we're in now. Our children, as kids coming from a Christian family,

0:48.7

they need strength. They need courage. And I think they're going to need a lot more of it than

0:53.7

maybe what our generation had to deliver, right?

0:56.1

It's getting harder and harder, it seems.

0:57.9

And Jill's going to describe in greater detail what that means.

1:01.7

Last time we covered the definition of strong heart, and that's a young person with moral courage, grounded in truth, and fortified with self-respect.

1:10.1

I thought the content was terrific. If you missed it,

1:12.5

go back and listen and you get that from the app or the website, wherever you can listen.

1:18.4

And today we're going to continue that discussion. She's developed a manners of the heart curriculum

1:23.5

that champions humility, respect, resiliency, etc.

1:30.1

All the right attitudes that we want our kids to have.

1:35.1

Sometimes those can be difficult to deploy as a parent with our kids.

1:38.8

We talked about that last time and how do we teach humility, you know?

1:40.0

Think about it.

1:41.9

It's kind of like how do you define water?

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