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🗓️ 7 November 2024
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What if your parenting was only a small adjustment away from better communication with your teen? Jim Daly and Dr. Ken Wilgus talk about ways you can inspire your teenager to make small changes. Also, Danny and John share how teens long to be challenged and inspired
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0:00.0 | Long ago, Missy thought abortion was the right choice, but she was misinformed about what was really going on. |
0:08.4 | There wasn't much truth there, and there was no physical evidence that they could show me any different than the lies that I had been told, such as, you know, it's a lot of the tissue and if you do it quickly, it's not a baby, |
0:23.0 | all those lives. And these ultrasounds, these ultrasounds show them it is life. So that's why |
0:29.7 | I support Operation ultrasound. God healed Missy's heart. And today, she's a pro-life advocate. |
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0:40.0 | others. I want other women who are sitting like me, sitting in church, or dealing with that |
0:46.1 | shame and secrecy, to know that there's hope and healing. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies |
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1:02.3 | What if I told you that one small adjustment in your parenting can make a world of difference in how your teenager responds to you? |
1:10.1 | I'm John Fuller along along with Dr. Danny, |
1:12.7 | who heads up the focus on the family parenting department. And Danny, that's a big promise, |
1:17.5 | but there are some things that we can do, very small things that make a big difference. For instance, |
1:24.4 | recognizing that sometimes teenagers are pushing back because we're just too structured and strict. |
1:31.9 | Yeah, there's a big response to the rules, especially if there's certain personalities that may feel more controlled than others. |
1:39.6 | Some personalities actually long for structure and control. |
1:43.1 | They do like that. They don't want to come up with that. |
1:45.8 | Then you have the leader personalities, the ones that want to explore the entire world that want to be in control, or the talker types, social types that want to just challenge all the boundaries. Those are the ones that are going to say, no, I'm through with all these rules. |
1:59.9 | And I actually remember several of these conversations in my counseling practice, |
2:05.1 | but there's one in particular that the teenager came into my office with his parents and said, |
2:11.1 | man, you guys just have so many rules. |
2:13.9 | But my friends, they don't have these rules. |
2:17.3 | You guys just want to control every single aspect of my |
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