Know Your Child Deeply
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
John and Danny give hope to parents who are discouraged by their child's behavior and offer tips for knowing your child well.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at focus on the family.com |
| 0:08.7 | slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | There was a season when one of my kids as a teenage boy was really drawing a lot of houses. |
| 0:18.0 | He was doing a lot of architectural kind of things and I thought, oh man, this is maybe something he's going to do, you know, for a career. |
| 0:26.0 | And when he was about 17, he's like, no, I just do that to whittle away the time. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't really have any interest in that at all. |
| 0:32.0 | And I thought, oh, I misread that one didn't I you |
| 0:36.4 | know we all miss read or miss things in our kids from time to time and you really just have to |
| 0:41.0 | lean in and work at knowing your child deeply to |
| 0:44.4 | understand their temperament and their strengths and weaknesses and we're going to |
| 0:48.1 | talk about that today. I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta. |
| 0:51.6 | Danny's a licensed clinical social worker |
| 0:54.0 | and is the vice president of our parenting department |
| 0:56.7 | here at Focus on the Family. |
| 0:58.5 | Let's begin by hearing from author Lee Neenheiss, |
| 1:01.4 | who uses an acronym, |
| 1:02.9 | brave to cover some important parenting traits. |
| 1:06.3 | And here's Jim Daly and me |
| 1:08.3 | as we talked with Lee about knowing your child well. |
| 1:12.4 | Our is for Reflect in the acronym Brave. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm going to keep repeating that for people bouncing in and out |
| 1:18.0 | listening to us. |
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