How to Nurture Emotional Health in Your Child

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Emotional health plays a significant role in how we connect and communicate with those around us. Eliza Huie shares how you can intentionally guide your kids towards emotional strength and resilience. She offers insight on what an emotionally healthy child looks like, along with advice for every parent seeking to raise grounded, emotionally secure children.

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0:00.0	God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope.
0:24.1	Visit truthrising.com today.
0:26.9	That's truthrising.com.
0:32.7	Seeing your child's emotion is an opportunity to see their heart, but it's also an opportunity to see your heart as well. And so to always recognize that God is doing something with everybody in the room,
0:42.8	which includes you mom and it includes you dad. So God is doing something with you. That's Eliza Huey,
0:49.1	and she's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. Here's a billboard.
0:55.6	Emotional health is really good. And you know what? We spend a lifetime moving that direction,
1:02.9	especially as Christians. We're hoping to overcome things and to live a good Christian life and to be
1:08.1	honest people, people of integrity. And we want our children to be there
1:12.4	too. And today we're going to cover how to raise emotionally healthy kids. And what parent
1:19.0	doesn't put their hand up to say, yes, we want that. And today, as part of our mission at
1:25.0	Focus on the Family, we want to equip you as a parent to do the best
1:29.2	job possible as you equip your children spiritually, emotionally, physically to live a good life.
1:36.7	Yeah, and Jim, we didn't plan on talking about this, but let me just say this is one of those
1:41.2	topics I wish I had known about 30 plus years ago because if I could
1:45.9	have a redo it would be to go here and and to start to talk with my children at a young age
1:52.0	about emotional wellness and give them the palette of conversation that I don't have from
1:58.3	their childhood but we're working on now I would would too. Me too. Sign me up.
2:02.3	So our guest today is Eliza Huey, and she's a licensed clinical professional counselor.
2:08.2	She's the director of counseling at McLean Bible Church in the Washington, D.C. area.
2:13.1	She teaches counseling at the college level and has a podcast, and she's written a number of books.
2:18.8	She knows a lot about the topic, and she's condensed, this is really key.
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