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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Reasons for Your Child's Emotions

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

You get home after a long and exhausting day at work. But instead of coming home to a peaceful environment, your kids are at odds with each other. Sound familiar? Danny and John offer some ideas for listening to your child's emotions, even when you don't feel like it. Featuring Milan and Kay Yerkovich.

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0:00.0

So you come home from a long day of work and you feel exhausted, but as you're walking in the

0:08.0

door you find out that your kids have been fighting with each other and they're not getting

0:12.3

along at all and there is tension and anxiety in the home.

0:16.0

And I wonder does that sound familiar?

0:19.0

It felt like that was the kind of scene I was walking into at least once or twice a week back when we had four or five

0:26.4

six kids in the home. I mean just name something. They're fighting about toys. They're fighting

0:31.6

about name calling. They're fighting about something.

0:34.0

It's natural to have that going on,

0:36.0

and for the most part, my kids were very peaceful.

0:39.0

Like I said, it was just once or twice a week, I think.

0:41.0

Well, I'm John Fuller Fuller along with our vice president of

0:43.8

parenting Dr Danny Werta and Danny I'm sure you've been there done that. Yeah that

0:48.8

I love what you said not very often just twice a week. Well with six kids, I mean it could be like twice a moment.

0:55.0

It could be, yeah, it could be twice every 10 minutes.

0:58.0

For some families that is the truth.

1:00.0

It happens a lot very, very frequently.

1:03.0

Depending on the personalities you've got in your home, and I remember walking into the

1:08.1

house this one particular time and my daughter came up to me and my son at the same time and they said something about each other right that's

1:17.2

how it usually happens from this one moment my daughter goes dad but you you have

1:22.0

to listen to me you you have to listen to me.

1:23.8

You have to just listen to me.

1:26.6

And you know, I'm coming into this intersection out of nowhere, right?

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