How to Prepare for Parenting Teens
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, you have great influence with your children, especially when it comes to teaching the truths of the Bible. Mom and counselor Kristen Hatton gives you some tools to establish a gospel foundation for your family in preparation for the teen years. She will help you better learn how to spiritually invest into your kids so they can begin to stand on their own as they launch into adulthood.
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| 0:00.0 | Our children need to experience trials. |
| 0:11.8 | It builds resilience and trust in the Lord and growth. |
| 0:15.1 | But if we are over-parenting, then we're over-controlling and trying to take care of all those things for them. |
| 0:22.0 | And so we need to let go a little bit and come back to the middle of let them experience life. |
| 0:30.0 | Kristen Hatton joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:33.6 | And we're going to be looking at how to parent with the future in mind. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm John Fuller, and thanks for joining us. |
| 0:39.6 | Have you ever considered, John, how much you as a parent can influence your children? |
| 0:44.9 | I've become aware of how much I can or maybe can't. |
| 0:48.3 | It's always such a tough question, right? |
| 0:50.4 | Well, we can influence for good, for bad. |
| 0:52.3 | And the goal for us as Christian parents is to influence them for more good than bad, right? Well, we can influence for good, for bad. And the goal for us as Christian parents is to influence |
| 0:55.5 | them for more good than bad, right? But man, they watch everything, don't they? They do. I'm shocked now |
| 1:01.3 | with my boys in their 20s. And we talk about, you know, things that they observed. I go, |
| 1:05.8 | man, you remember that? So it's a little daunting. But what we want is to live by good example to love the |
| 1:14.0 | Lord let them see that to teach them God's word and to hopefully build into them that thirst |
| 1:20.1 | to know the Lord to live by the Lord's truth and and have a life that honors God yeah yeah that's |
| 1:25.9 | I think that's most of our audience. We want to pass that faith on. |
| 1:29.5 | We want to see our kids growing with God, but we have to have the right perspective. |
| 1:34.2 | Well, the Bible makes it clear that we need to be influential in our kids' lives. I think it's |
| 1:38.8 | Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse 7. It says, you shall teach, not you could, you shall teach God's commandments |
| 1:45.7 | diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when |
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