Keeping Your Kids’ Attention Through Visuals
Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How do you keep your kids' attention in an age that's so distracted? Tim Shoemaker shares with Jim Daly that kids today are hungry for real analogies. Plus, Danny talks about some visual lessons that he taught his children, and how those have stuck with them.
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| 0:56.7 | Focus on the Family.com slash family. There is so much that we as mom and dads have to deal with. |
| 1:07.2 | I mean, there's screens everywhere. Our kids have increasing diagnoses of ADHD, |
| 1:14.5 | and you can just see how fragmented the world is becoming. How in the world do you, |
| 1:20.7 | as a parent, get into the heart of your child? I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, |
| 1:26.1 | who heads up our parenting team, and we're to get going here with a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:33.0 | Jim spoke with Tim Shoemaker. |
| 1:34.7 | He's a really engaged dad, and he joined Jim and me in the studio to talk about how you can hold your child's attention. |
| 1:42.4 | Tim, how does this play out in this age of screens? I mean, |
| 1:46.0 | putting the safety goggles on might get my child to let go of the screen for a minute or two, |
| 1:50.5 | but what's your observation on screens and attention spans and this kind of thing that you're |
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