Letting God Work in Your Child's Heart
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The truth is, you can never control your child. But how do you respond when your son or daughter isn't making good decisions? John and Danny share how you can pray for your child when he or she is struggling. Featuring Connie Albers.
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| 0:00.0 | There have been so many times as a father when I'm reminded I cannot control what my |
| 0:07.8 | children do and I think there is a season where one of my kids in middle school was |
| 0:12.0 | really struggling and every day it was sort of like |
| 0:15.2 | Lord please just protect give wisdom put good people in the way so that bad choices aren't made and generally bad choices weren't made it turned out okay |
| 0:27.4 | well, I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Huerta. He leads our parenting department here at focus on the Family, and we're going to return to a conversation |
| 0:35.3 | Jim Daly and I had with Connie Albers. In a previous episode, she discussed learning |
| 0:40.6 | from mistakes her own parents made, which she did not want to repeat. |
| 0:46.0 | You had an awareness there, and some people with their childhood and the things they learn in their family of origin, there's not that awareness and actually they contend to repeat the errors of their father. |
| 0:58.6 | That is true. |
| 0:59.4 | And so you're stricter, you're harsher, and that's what you learned growing up. So I mean this is a really |
| 1:05.3 | important point. You have to break those generational sins. You do. And take them |
| 1:10.4 | captive so you're not ending up in the same boat you were as a 13 14 year old. |
| 1:15.6 | Speak to that. |
| 1:16.6 | Well when I write in the book I talk about the different parenting styles. |
| 1:21.4 | Back in the day it used to be the permissive parent and the authoritative parent. |
| 1:25.0 | Do as I say and for the, again, those children that are real compliant children and they just, |
| 1:29.9 | they don't like getting in trouble. |
| 1:31.9 | They'll do exactly what you tell them to do and they think |
| 1:34.0 | I'm the favorite child and sometimes they can kind of be that way just because |
| 1:38.8 | they aren't causing you trouble but the child who who necessarily isn't doing that can unfortunately feel unloved because going |
| 1:48.2 | back to your comment about conditional love, you know, God loves us. Right? Even while we are yet |
| 1:55.4 | centers God still loves us and therefore we love our children. They are formed |
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