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Well no one enjoys nagging their kids to do homework or finish their chores but maybe

you feel like you have no other options. Today we're going to help you discover just

how much your kids can do on their own and you might find out that they're much more capable than you thought.

I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta who leads our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the family and Danny I haven't said that here before but you are now

Dr Danny Werta you've got your advanced degree tell us a little bit about that

congratulations thank you it's in clinical psychology it was quite a journey

and got to the finish line. It was five years.

And my family sacrificing and us working on that together. Thank you, Lord, for getting me through that and I got to the finish line.

It's feeling good, John.

And your dissertation was?

It was on the seven traits of authoritative parenting, which we call it effective parenting here.

And then what are the outcomes and children's behaviors

from those seven traits?

And very exciting research, and we'll continue

to unpack that here, focus on the family as we go.

Yeah and we've been talking about the parenting assessment which is built on those

seven traits. That's correct. And if you haven't taken it yet, stop by the

website. The link is in the show notes you can take that

free assessment let's go ahead and listen now to a conversation that Jim

Daly and I had with authors Michael Anderson and Dr Timothy Johanson they are going to be familiar guests if you've

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