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slash impossible. We're going to hear today some very creative and interesting ways to help your

kids learn about growing spiritually. I'm John

Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta, who's in charge of our parenting team, and let's go ahead and get

right to it. Here's focus on the family president, Jim Daly, who spoke with Tim Schumacher.

Tim talked about some of the creative ways. He's taught his own kids about God. Tim, thanks for coming back and extending a little bit of time with us for the folks that have come to the website to check this out. Let's just go through some of the concoctions that you've brought. You've got the mousetrap. That one's been begging for explanation. It's sitting there. I'm already afraid of mousetraps. I think I must have my finger pinched as a kid. Well, they're nasty, right? They've got a nasty kill bar on them. Yeah, that just sounds nasty right there, the kill bar. And that's what actually gets the kids leaning forward. Whenever you do anything with, like here, this is actually a, not a mouse trap, but it's a rat trap.

That's why it's so big.

And so you get the old-fashioned kind on the wood.

And here's what you do, especially think about when you've got a teenage son or daughter

and they're kind of pushing back a little bit.

Okay, so you set the trap and you tell them to touch it.

No.

But close. Oh, shoot. I got that one wrong. So you pick up about, let's say six or eight of these traps. Go to a narrow hallway in your home. Set these traps. Just lay them out in little maze. Okay, I see where this is going. And you have your son or daughter on the other end with you. And you say, okay, shoes and socks off.

And Dad's going to blindfold you and I'm going to spin you around a few times. I'm going to send you down this hallway and you can't even shuffle down. I want you just a step. Would you do that? And they'd be like, no. No, they're definitely not going to do that. And I said, well, what if you had to go through this hallway? you to but what if even though you're blindfolded you put your hands on dad's shoulders and dad puts his

hands on your shoulders and what if I say I'll walk you through and I'll keep you

from these traps would you do it then? Of course I'm much more likely to do it that

way and the whole

point of it is this is you know kids this is where you're at in life. You know that's a good one.

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