Navigating Tough Issues in Your Family, Part 9
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Technology can be great, but sometimes it gets in the way of a family's ability to really engage with one another. John and Danny discuss ways to use tech like smartphones, laptops and video games as tools for enhancing relationships, not replacing them.
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| 0:11.4 | So picture this. Someone asks, are you mad and you yell or sort of yell? No, I'm not mad and you fold your arms and just kind of turn away. |
| 0:20.0 | There is something in your body language that is communicating and I'm John Fuller along with Danny |
| 0:26.8 | where it's a Danny you seem to have an open posture you're smiling you're you're looking at me with |
| 0:31.5 | with thought in your mind. Body language, that nonverbal part of communication |
| 0:36.4 | is super important and kids pick up on it, don't they? |
| 0:39.5 | Oh, they do. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, and you know, that's part of an emotional intelligence that we try to carry around with us and we're not always using it and sometimes don't pick up on that with our spouses and with our kids. |
| 0:53.0 | The kids are very aware of the fact that sometimes our body language does not match what |
| 0:59.1 | we're saying or how we're acting. |
| 1:01.8 | And it doesn't mean we're bad parents. Just mean sometimes we're acting and it doesn't mean we're bad parents just mean sometimes we're |
| 1:05.0 | disconnected from our own emotions yeah and maybe sometimes we need to check in |
| 1:08.6 | and see what are our kids saying we're saying through our body and slowing down enough to have conversations around that. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, our bodies aren't always saying what we're wanting them to say. |
| 1:20.0 | And I am so guilty of that. |
| 1:22.0 | I've had a kid say, are you mad? It's like, no, I'm not mad. Do I sound |
| 1:26.3 | mad? Well, sort of. Do I look mad? Yeah. You're scowling. Oh, what am I scowling for? I don't know. So this is Communication 101 stuff. It's really good. |
| 1:35.2 | Dr. Mike Bechtel talked with Jim Daly and me explaining the impact that your body language and |
| 1:41.1 | tone of voice can have in your conversations particularly in the home. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm just thinking about all the miscommunication that happens in emails and texts. I mean there's no I can't do an emotional read of a situation and |
| 1:56.1 | I've Dina and I have been working on this my wife and I have been working on this I'll say |
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