Instilling Character Into the Heart of Your Children (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kathy Koch examines the importance of character in your child’s life and ways you can nurture and develop it. She’ll reveal your child’s core needs and some solid strategies for teaching character. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | After four abortions, Distara finally learned the truth. |
| 0:04.3 | I heard it from focus on the family and they were talking about pro-life being a baby, a human |
| 0:10.8 | being in your stomach. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm like, wow, that's pro life. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:18.0 | Together we can rescue pre-born babies and their moms, |
| 0:21.5 | giving families hope. |
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| 0:29.0 | Let's say I want my kids to be generous with their spirit and their stuff and their time and their passion. |
| 0:37.0 | What are the other things that would need to be addressed? |
| 0:40.0 | And maybe as a family we sit down and family values our whole family wants to become more generous |
| 0:44.8 | What are the other qualities that are going to be related to that that we need to look for build up and talk about and it makes it I think less overwhelming because we don't have to teach 48 qualities like we teach the ABCs separately. |
| 0:56.0 | We can teach them together and it makes us rich. |
| 0:59.0 | It makes it more likely that we will become more like Christ and exhibit this biblical |
| 1:03.4 | character that I I want them to parent differently for. That's Dr. Kathy Cook and |
| 1:08.2 | she joins us to discuss how to build character in your children on today's |
| 1:12.3 | episode of Focus on the Family. |
| 1:14.0 | Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:17.5 | John, we all want our children to do well in this world to serve others and to love the Lord. We do want that |
| 1:25.2 | sincerely. But children, they're not born necessarily with that desire to do good |
| 1:30.2 | to everyone around them. It's something that we need to instill in them. And Gene and I certainly |
| 1:35.8 | tried to communicate that. We did that in a variety of ways with a variety of measures of success. |
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