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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Resisting Fears About Your Little Children

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Living in fear about your kids is not a healthy way to parent. To help you face your fears with confidence, John and Danny share why it's good to not be over-protective with your kids. Also, Focus President Jim Daly talks with Courtney Ellis about how she's learned to overcome some of her fears as a mother.

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0:00.0

Those first few years of your child's life are filled with precious moments and every parent knows

0:08.0

that that little one is dependent on you. I mean they're totally dependent for their well-being. How do you handle

0:16.2

the pressure of that? I remember there was a time early on when our oldest was crying and my

0:20.9

wife is like well what does he need and I looked at her said I don't know what does he need and she said I don't know what that cry means and

0:25.8

you can't call somebody and ask what does listen what does this cry mean so I think that's a pretty natural way a lot of us parents handle some of these pressures.

0:36.0

I don't know, we get kind of frozen.

0:38.0

Well, I'm John Fuller, an imperfect parent joined by Dr. Danny Werta.

0:42.0

He heads up our focus on the family parenting team and Danny

0:45.0

how about you and Heather what kind of things caused you to look at each other

0:49.0

and shrug your shoulders and say I don't know?

0:51.0

Yeah those fears it's so real as a parent to have fears that pop up.

0:55.8

I think the most frequent one is the safety, the safety of our kids from the beginning, right,

1:01.4

from, like you were saying, the first time you're at home, they're

1:05.5

getting sick, they have a fever, you start to have anxieties around that.

1:10.6

But then the fearfulness when they start to drive on their own when I remember being on a trip actually at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison here in Colorado

1:19.3

and our kids were a little younger and there's some big cliffs there.

1:24.0

Just seeing my kids come up to the edge, close to the edge of that.

1:28.0

It just takes your breath away because you don't have full control over their decision making.

1:32.0

And there's just that sense of... full control over their decision making.

1:32.5

And there's just that sense of,

1:34.8

I want my kids to be safe.

1:37.6

And it's so natural for us to want that,

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