Hi, this is Jim Daly with Focus on the Family, and here at the top of the broadcast, I need to alert you to something happening in the US Senate.

It could affect each one of us for generations to come.

There's an attempt to change the definition of marriage permanently and make same-sex marriage federally mandated law.

The US House recently passed legislation, the Misnamed Respect for Marriage Act.

Act does the exact opposite. It changes the very definition and meaning of marriage and makes it irreversible.

All Democrats voted in favor of the bill and many Republicans as well.

HR-84-04 requires states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states and seek to codify it into federal law.

That goes a step beyond the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in 2015 inventing the right to same-sex marriage.

If this bill is passed, it could open the door for the federal government to force everyone, including religious organizations, to affirm same-sex marriages, polygamy and more.

This act is an assault on religious freedom and free speech. In the law would lead to costly lawsuits and harassment of millions of Christians, pro-family Americans and organizations who believe in one man, one woman marriage.

So here's what we urgently need you to do. Please call your senators and respectfully ask them to vote no on HR-84-04.

Proponents of the bill are trying to get 10 Republican votes to pass it in the Senate. By contacting your senators today, you can help persuade them to not bring this damaging bill to a vote.

So please call the Senate switchboard today and urge your senators to vote no on HR-84-04.

The Senate number is 202-224-3121. That's 202-224-3121. And we'll provide a link to all the information, including how to reach your senators at our webpage at focusonthefamily.com slash broadcast.

Thank you for taking action today.

You have to understand that all kids want attention. The question is does the child get attention positively or negatively?

Once they get negative attention, then they'll escalate to be a powerful child. So the powerful child again says, I only count life when I win, control, when I dominate.

The attention getter says I only count life when I'm noticed.

Well, getting to the heart of a really complex parenting matter that's Dr. Kevin Lehman on today's focus on the family, and we've jumped right in again with some great content, pulling from his book, Parenting Your Powerful Child, in his many, many years as a psychologist and an author and speaker, and Jim Daly is our host.

Jim, this is such fundamentally good stuff. There's always something great to take from Kevin and apply in my own life as a parent with my kids.

Well, that's it. If you have kids at home, Dr. Kevin Lehman is the man to go to because he has such great wisdom, and it's rooted right there in biblical principle, and it helps all of us as parents kind of reset the compass about what are we trying to achieve here as parents?

Even last time, John, we talked about the types of manipulation that children bring into the home. Dr. Lehman said that that starts at about 18 months.

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