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Mom, you said that we're not allowed to be playing down in the creek and Wesley is down there catching tadpoles in it.

Now I've told you that Alex is my theatrical child, so you could always tell exactly what she was thinking. I could tell she was totally thinking so.

What are you going to do about it and can I watch?

Ginger Hubbard talking about a challenge she had with her daughter and how we as parents can sometimes get off track and who's side of the bigger picture.

This is Focus on the Family with your host, Focus President Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and Jim it seems that despite all the good books and resources, you have to kind of learn on the job as a mom or a dad.

And we can laugh about those mistakes in the past, but when you're in the thick of it, oh my goodness, it can be frustrating.

John, the two of us of all people know that book smarts only go so far. We sit here every day with great guests and many of them talking to us about parenting and then we got to go home and apply it.

Good luck with that. I would only say who hasn't made mistakes in parenting their kids? And that's just part of life. Ginger Hubbard is back with some great advice for parents.

She's been well received by our listeners, you and I think you're going to enjoy once again hearing from her her wonderful book. I can't believe you just said that love the title by the way.

And I think it is packed with biblical wisdom to help parents do the job well. She wrote the book to provide a toolbox for parents to use in training up a child with Scripture and I'm looking forward to it.

So let's get to it Ginger welcome back to focus. Thank you. It's great to be back.

All right, you heard the set up there. Parents are imperfect, aren't they? That's right.

Let's all kids are too little for the record. Even perfect parents are imperfect. That's right. That's right.

One of the common mistakes that we can make is threatening our kids too much. I mean, that's one of it. Maybe bribing them. There's always those things. Why is that not a smart approach?

When we fall into the traps of things like bribing and threatening and we're counting or encountering that's why I named them. I don't make me count to three because that was my favorite one.

When we fall into those traps, it really keeps us from getting to the heart of the issue because those things, if you think about it, they may manipulate the child's behavior to some extent, but they fail to reach the heart.

So that's why we don't want to fall into those. And you know, like threatening, you brought that up. I would.

That's probably my go to thing. Yeah, we've all done that. I've done that too. And I'll share a story about that. But threatening usually comes after we have repeated our instructions several times to know a veil.

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