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No matter what age your children are, it's never too late to start talking to them and encouraging them and having these kind of conversations.

And we don't want to live in fear. I will not help my children. I'll raise fearful kids if I respond in fear.

Or I can raise competent, equipped kids. If I am just factual, casual, I have a conversation just like you and I are having.

I'm not eliciting fear. I'm making it sound like no topics off limits. We can talk about anything and mom and dad expect these things to happen and we want you to know what to do.

Well, Julie Low is our guest again today on Focus on the Family. Thanks for joining us. Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

John is really impressed with what Julie had to share yesterday and I'm looking forward to what we're going to learn today.

I said at the end of the program, you know, these are the tidbits I wish I would have had when the kids were younger and that's why we're doing this.

So we can give you these great insights as you're parenting your children, pass it along to your friends and make sure that everybody in your schools aware of this great resource,

safeguard shielding our homes and equipping our kids, which is really the key is how to equip our kids to live in a world that will come after them and try to tear them down.

Yeah, this is a really important conversation for every mom and dad. It's never too late and Julie Low is imminently qualified to share from her heart and her expertise.

She's a licensed professional counselor and a faculty member at Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation.

She has a number of books and the one that forms the foundation of our conversation today and was part of the conversation last time as well as called Safeguards, shielding our homes and equipping our kids.

And we've got details about Julie and her work and this book at our website. Check the show notes for details.

All right, Julie. Welcome back. Thank you. Before we get into today's specifics, let's take a minute and recap. For example, what do you mean by Safeguards? Let's start there.

Yeah, Safeguards is meaning I'm putting up protective measures to help my kids to protect them. I can't keep them from every danger in the world nor should I.

That's when we try to control our children, but I can put up Safeguards to help them to shield them from some of the darts that will be thrown their way while also equipping them to know how to protect themselves.

Probably one of the scariest things for a parent is the potential that someone might abuse my child in some way.

But the reality is it does happen. And it's maybe not likely, but there's always the potential of that.

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