That was pretty easy to get along with, didn't fight you, confrontationally.

So you point your bony finger in my face and you back me into the corner and you say,

do it or else, and then I'll just else because I know there's nothing I really

have to do except die which I'm willing to do if I'm willing to die and you're not I win

Okay, I'm dead, but I win

I don't care if I have to die to do it. Do you understand? I don't care if I have to die to do it well a strong

statement from a strong-willed individual Cynthia Tobias and you'll hear more

from her today on Focus on the Family your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller.

Cynthia is so good at nailing down how the Strong World Child thinks and acts, and of course,

being one, a self-proclaimed one as she does she knows exactly how

they think an act and then she offers us guidance as a parent as a teacher as a

former police officer on how to handle it as a teacher, former police officer on how to handle it as a parent.

If you didn't hear the program last time, you got to download it or get the CD because it's relevant

right where you're at as a parent with that strong-willed child.

Cynthia has lots of great tips and every parent is going to benefit and if you're

a grandparent this is the one you want to pass along to your adult children who are raising those grandkids for you.

We said it last time. This is one of our most popular programs, which is why we wanted to come back to it, and it got a huge response. In fact, let me read a comment we received

from a parent named Deborah who shared this. She said, I heard your two day broadcast

with Cynthia Tobias and it was an answer to my prayers.

I've been changed and there has been peace in my home for a month.

Since I heard the broadcast, you gave me so much insight into the way my almost 14 year old

strong-willed daughter thinks. I've applied some of the strategies you spoke of

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