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Well despite what you think, the most important life skill you can teach your teenager

is not balancing their schedule or managing their social media or even changing attire.

The most important skill you can teach them is to be a student of God's word.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werther.

He's vice president of the Parenting and Youth Department here at Focus on the Family

and Danny at some point, kids have to make faith their own

we've got to pass that baton but what if anything can we do as a parent to

equip them to really hunger for and read God's word.

To enter with wonder.

I mean you want to enter with, you know, I wonder what it was like to be in that moment.

Kids already have that naturally in them.

They ask those questions and especially creative kids.

You can ask them, what do you think it was like to be John or Mark or Luke or Jesus in that time.

What would that have been like in that moment?

And with their feelings, they can enter those moments.

With our kids, since they were real little,

I asked them to either draw what the pastor was saying or to take notes and now we recently

adopted a young woman into our house, a teenager, 13, and she joined us for church and she saw that we all take notes.

My kids, we all have our journal and your writing and after church we're going to talk about.

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