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Well happy 2020 can you believe it? Hopefully the new year is off to a great start

for you and you're not facing any hard consequences because of the food you ate during the

holidays.

That is how it goes though, and in the real world,

you know, we adults, we face the consequences of our actions.

You might remember the celebrity parents

in the college exam scandal.

They wanted so desperately to get their kids into the right school and they did it by any

means necessary and some of that was illegal and they had fines and even jail time.

That's not what we want to do as parents.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and Danny

here's hoping our kids aren't going to follow our lead

or end up in jail because of their own consequences.

Yeah, but we do want them to learn the joys and benefits of having consequences, right?

Because consequences aren't necessarily a bad thing. It's the if and thens of life. It really is.

If I do this, then this will happen and there can be good things that happen, a good consequences.

So yeah, here's to, that they find the joy and the growth

around consequences.

And as parents, we've got to help lead them in that.

And Jim Daly and I spoke with Dr. Kathy Cook about the language of

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