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There's a famous actor who passed away, Bruce Lee, who said, be water, my friend.

Now, what does water have to do with parenting?

Well, sometimes we need to be fluid with our schedule, our goals, our plans, especially when the kids are involved.

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up the focus on the family parenting department.

And, Danny, how do you get flexible as a parent?

I mean, it's flexible.

That's great.

Okay, so I'm a planner, and kids have interrupted my plans so many times.

I've become flexible.

But how do we keep perspective on situations when children are right there and they're melting

down or they have a need or they're slowing us down?

You catch what I'm saying.

Oh, it takes a lot of brain power to do it.

Adaptability is the first trait of the seven traits of effective parenting that we have here at focus on the family.

And with intentionality there, that adaptability is the first trait because it has to be you're

adapting and in and adjusting to a spouse you're adjusting to dirty diapers you're adjusting to kids

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