Rules for Their Protection
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Rules are designed to keep your child safe. So, how do you respond when your son hates rules? John and Danny share how you can show your child respect, even when giving him rules. Featuring Dr. Kevin Leman and Jean Daly.
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| 0:00.0 | I have six children and some of them are more prone to follow, let's call them |
| 0:07.8 | house rules. Others were born ready to challenge anything that was established as a boundary or a guideline or a rule. |
| 0:15.8 | They were suggestions. |
| 0:17.9 | The truth is if you have children, you know what I'm talking about. |
| 0:20.9 | We're going to unpack a little bit of that today. I'm John |
| 0:23.7 | Fuller joined in the studio by Dr. Danny Wertha he is a counselor speaker and |
| 0:28.4 | author he leads our focus on the family parenting team. Okay Danny you're you're really good at I think |
| 0:34.9 | framing things for your kids. Did you have rules for them? |
| 0:38.0 | I mean you're like an expert at conversations but did you have any house rules posted? |
| 0:45.2 | Like we are respectful. The Wertas are whatever. |
| 0:49.2 | Price should have gotten to that. We didn't post them. Okay. but we talked about behavior rules and character |
| 0:55.4 | rules oh what's the behavior is from the outside end these are things you you do and |
| 1:00.2 | you need stop signs on and you need to learn how to control certain moments better and that would be self-control the mouth. We talked about that. You need to be able to control your own mouth and that means we're talking about cuss words or dishonesty, |
| 1:16.7 | just it really encompasses a lot that can come out of the mouth. And then the |
| 1:20.4 | character ones, honesty, from the inside out, |
| 1:25.0 | rules on honesty or dishonesty. |
| 1:28.1 | What's going on in your heart? |
| 1:30.1 | And we have conversations about that. |
| 1:33.5 | Is it humility or pride? |
| 1:35.1 | We don't want pride in our home. |
| 1:36.5 | We're going to take that out. |
| 1:38.1 | We're going to, we don't want dishonesty in our home. |
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