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you may have experienced those wonderful harmonious seasons in parenting when your child is well-behaved and you really rarely need to correct him or her.

Oh, those are sweet times and hold on to them because there are other times when you must act as a parent more than a friend and draw the boundaries and force some rules. It's crucial to create a solid relationship with

your child when things are good because those rockier seasons are going to come.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta he's the vice president of

parenting and youth here at

Focus on the family and Danny it's important for kids to know that we love

them unconditionally. What are a couple of quick practical ways for us to create

that strong foundation so they receive that

message.

In fact, John, this is part of our seven traits of effective parenting, which we've created an assessment

and the whole experience for parents on our website to begin the journey to explore those and one of them is steadfast love.

That unwavering love.

And that means in the places where a child has failed, where they've messed up, where they've been much less than perfect,

that's when they require more of our love as parents.

And that's when we tend to withdraw, our emotions tend to flare up, our stress, and we don't tend to give that

depth of love that a child needs during those moments, where we reassure them, my love

is not dependent on what you do.

My love is there whenever you are with me or whenever you're not with

me, you're my child and I am giving you my love. And so that means that when a child is frustrating, you want to point that out.

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