My wife and I have six wonderful kids. They're all adults now. And when I go through the

catalog of things that we kind of pushed on through, it included some children with pretty

severe anxiety. One of our kids had a broken foot that took months and months and months to mend.

One had an eating disorder that was very serious. So we've been through some tough situations, and I just want to encourage

you if you're dealing with a child who is really struggling right now, there is hope,

and you can be part of their healing. I'm John Fuller, along

with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up the Focus on the Family Parenting Department. And we're

going to hear now from Lucille Williams. She was on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly and shared about

her son Tim and his difficulties, how he overcame those. Your son, I think Tim, had some struggles with reading.

That must have brought up a lot of stuff for you, given that you had that difficulty in

elementary school.

How did you help Tim approach that differently and kind of move from shame to less shame?

Yes, when we realized he was having struggles and, oh, man, teachers, they're heroes.

Yeah, they are.

Amazing.

But when you think about it, they've got such a big group of kids, so they can't see everything.

They just can't.

Even in your home, you can't see everything.

And so sometimes what is happening at school, you know, you just hear about the struggles.

You know, when a teacher contacts you, it's not normally because, hey, I just want to tell you, your kid's doing great and they got straight A's and they're doing great.

No, it's the area that they're struggling in.

And unfortunately, even as parents sometimes, we're focusing in on

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