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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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When you feel frustrated with your kids, it's important to not overreact. Jim Daly and Justin Earley discuss how to discern whether a present frustration is really important or not. Then, John and Danny share how including other people in your kids' lives goes a long way in helping them develop into healthy people.
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| 0:32.3 | A general rule for parents is to do the following. |
| 0:37.4 | When you get frustrated or upset with your kids, |
| 0:40.2 | and we all experience that from time to time, pause, take a breath and just ask yourself, |
| 0:48.5 | in the scheme of things, is this a big deal or maybe not so much? I'm John Fuller and with me is Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team. |
| 0:57.4 | And we're going to hear now a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:02.4 | Jim spoke with Justin Early and Justin and his wife have four young sons. |
| 1:07.8 | And the concept of mountains versus mole hills came up. |
| 1:11.6 | Justin, how is eating more than just a physical activity for nourishment? |
| 1:17.6 | Oh my goodness. |
| 1:18.6 | It sounds like that's what it's about is nourishment. |
| 1:21.6 | You know, the modern knee-jerk reaction is that food is either fuel or fashion. It's like you do it because you have to. |
| 1:29.3 | It's like gasoline. |
| 1:30.3 | Just put anything in your body. |
| 1:31.3 | You need energy. |
| 1:32.3 | Or it's, you know, we're taking Instagram pictures and showing off our life. |
| 1:34.3 | But one of the things I like to draw Christians' attention to is that food is the one of the way that God shapes us in community and his generosity towards us throughout the Bible food is a place |
| 1:45.8 | where God meets us and we meet the world and so the table right you come to the |
| 1:50.8 | table power of the table so much more is happening at the table than we think and so one of my |
| 1:56.6 | recommendations to parents is to say lean into that spiritual reality and meet your |
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