When you need to discipline your children, do you do it out of anger or out of love?

Here's Brooke Wayne.

A lot of times we tend to parent out of a reactionary sort of stance.

We're seeing a child disobey and we hop on it and we lash out with angry words and we try to correct it.

And there's a place where a child needs corrected. But there's

also something to be said for being a proactive parent, actually looking for ways when the sun is

shining and your child is happy and you're having a great day to be able to talk about serious

issues. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamo, author of A Place of Quiet

Rest for Thursday, April 20th, 2017. Well, I don't know about you, but I have been so encouraged and challenged by this conversation we've been having over the last several days with Israel and Brooke Wayne.

Their parents, they have nine children so far, and they consider those children gifts and blessings from the Lord, but also give them a lot of

opportunities to be sanctified and to learn the gospel afresh. But they also have a ministry

to families, family renewal, and there's a link on our website to their website. If you want to

learn more about their ministry, other books they've written, they do a lot of speaking

at conventions on parenting and marriage and their friends. They live not too far from our ministry,

and we've gotten to know each other over the last several years. I love this family. I love their

hearts, and I hope you've been encouraged, as I have been by this conversation.

We've been talking specifically about a book they've written together about overcoming angry and stressed out parenting.

And as Israel said in our first program in this series, this is a front burner topic for a lot of families.

And probably, I can't imagine there's any parent. Do you think I'm right, Brooke, that doesn't sometimes deal, maybe a lot

deal with anger and stress and how that comes out in parenting? I think it must apply to all

parents because all parents are pushed at some point beyond their comfort level.

And then what comes out is a giveaway to what's in the heart.

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