Physical Touch and Words of Affirmation
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Whether or not your child tells you, he or she still longs to feel loved inside. John and Danny discuss ways they've seen their children's desire to feel loved change over time. Featuring Dr. Gary Chapman and Jean Daly.
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| 0:00.0 | When your child reaches the teen years deep inside even if they don't tell you, |
| 0:07.0 | even if they act like they hate you, they really want to be loved. They want to feel loved. One of the best ways you can express |
| 0:14.8 | your love is through something called the five love languages which has helped so |
| 0:19.2 | many people around the world to connect better with each other. I'm John Fuller along with our |
| 0:24.2 | Vice President of Parenting Dr. Danny Huerta and we're going to hear now from |
| 0:28.1 | Dr. Gary Chapman. He developed this concept of the love languages and speaks regularly on the topic. |
| 0:35.0 | Jim and Jean Daley spoke with him and we're going to focus on two love languages today, physical touch and words of affirmation. |
| 0:42.0 | Gary and Jean, let's work through these now. touch and |
| 0:43.7 | gerry and gene let's work through these now physical touch we've talked about it so let's go there |
| 0:47.2 | gene just as a practical example when we you know kind of fell into the observation that Troy was physical touch, that's me! |
| 0:58.0 | How did that guide your parenting with him? How did you embrace that and engage it? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, it was easy when he was young, because you want to hug your little, your little boys. |
| 1:10.0 | But the older he got that was more challenging for me, but I would be intentional about |
| 1:19.5 | scratching his back or putting my hand on his back, something that's unnatural for me, but I knew |
| 1:28.8 | it was important to him or even scratching he loves, he would love for Jim to scratch his arm |
| 1:35.4 | He plop down the couch next to my chair and puts his arm across my lap |
| 1:39.1 | when he tickled my forearm. That's the cue. It's that's the cue almost every night. I mean it's so sweet. Yes. But it did it. You learn to verbally engage |
| 1:48.7 | him by putting your hand on his shoulder and touching him in some way and that's great. Right, yeah. And back rubs at night. |
| 1:58.8 | It's a little harder Gary, isn't it, when they become teenagers because things might change a little bit. |
| 2:04.1 | I'm thinking of guys whose daughters are physical touch. |
| 2:08.0 | Yeah, I think what we have to recognize is as I get to be teenagers we have to change different |
| 2:14.2 | forms you know when they were little we were hugging them and they were sitting on our |
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