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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Amber Lia and Wendy Speake offer parents practical suggestions for responding with patience and wisdom to their children's misbehavior. The discussion is based on our guests' recent book, Parenting Scripts: When What You're Saying Isn't Working, Say Something New.
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0:26.8 | I love King Solomon's request. He could have asked for anything. And he said, God, give me wisdom as I lead this great people of yours. He's talking about a nation. Well, nation originally means family. So we've got a little nation in our home. What better question to say, God, give me wisdom as I lead this great |
0:56.0 | people of yours. Welcome to today's episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. We're joined by |
1:01.9 | Wendy Speak and Amber Leia. We're going to offer practical parenting advice for you for every stage |
1:07.7 | of your journey as a mom or a dad. Thanks for joining us. |
1:11.1 | I'm John Fuller. |
1:12.2 | You know, John, here's a neon sign. |
1:13.8 | There are no perfect parents. |
1:15.8 | Indeed. |
1:16.8 | And I think, you know, this would be one of those times I sit and listen to outstanding |
1:20.8 | professionals talk about marriage and parenting. |
1:24.5 | I'll go home and talk to Jean, and she goes, are you listening to your guests? |
1:29.6 | It's a sweet way to say, you might have some more room to grow. But in that parenting space, |
1:34.8 | it's so important to, you only have one role at this. You know, how many of us that have older |
1:39.7 | kids now say, I wish I could have a do-over. And man, today we're going to talk about not needing |
1:45.9 | that do-over because we will help you, our guest today, to provide scripts. They've written a |
1:51.3 | great book. 30 scripts are included on how to communicate to your kids when they're disobeying, |
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