Well, all my kids are now adults. I have six kids, one daughter and loss of seven altogether.

I'm trying to keep relationship with all of them

I'm a busy guy Danny I have something going on all the time I try to text I try to

get together and swing by when I can for those who are here in the area and I love that I just love being able to sit down here

here from them see what God's doing find out where they're going next

and I love being part of the journey with them. I'm John

Fuller. I'm joined by Dr. Danny Werta. He's a professional counselor and Danny you

often see that giving our kids freedom to express their emotions in healthy ways can

actually lead to a good long-term relationship with them, right? Yeah and the keys

there are freedom and healthy together, right?

There are unhealthy ways for kids to express their emotions and that can come out in behaviors

that can be potentially dangerous and really damaging in the home,

such as punching holes in the wall and other things like that.

So here, what it really means when we're thinking about emotions

being expressed in a healthy way,

it begins with you as a parent. How do you

manage your emotions? How do you express them in healthy ways towards your spouse or

towards others while you're driving or at the store? How are your emotions spilling out your kids will

mirror a lot of what you do and they're they're pretty immature in the way that

they're handling it I recently saw a dad with with his. I hadn't seen them in eight years and I knew this dad had a good relationship with his son and listened well with his son and they were out to dinner.

He was taken out his two sons to dinner and this young man I know got the opportunity

to express and process his emotions openly with both his mom and his dad.

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