Serving Others & Doing Chores
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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How can we teach our kids to be more generous? Jill Garner talks with Jim Daly about a shopping trip that turned into a powerful lesson. Also, Danny talks about how you can teach your children to live more selfless
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| 0:32.3 | What are some ways that you've tried teaching your kids to be more generous. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:39.1 | Werta. He heads up the Focus on the Family Parenting team, and we're going to hear now from |
| 0:43.4 | Jill Garner. She spoke on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly about ways to encourage your children |
| 0:50.0 | to be selfless. I think you had your boys. |
| 0:58.0 | I think, you know, we throw so much at our kids. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, right now, my two boys are in their 20s. |
| 1:03.7 | We have crates of Legos. |
| 1:07.2 | And, you know, we're pushing them to, hey, it's time to get rid of these things. |
| 1:07.7 | Let's go. |
| 1:12.9 | But, I mean, I don't even know how many thousands of dollars of Legos. The point is we like can overindulge kids too and throw so much. And the irony is |
| 1:20.1 | they still have wants. And you're going, wasn't the $50,000 in Legos enough for you? |
| 1:27.4 | You know, but you had that experience with your |
| 1:29.3 | with your sons. What happened in their context? So one of the things that was very important to me |
| 1:34.3 | that I wanted the boys to understand is I wanted them to experience the difference between how |
| 1:39.1 | much better it felt to give than it felt to get. And so when we went to the store, as many parents getting the habit of buying their kids a treat, let them get a treat, well, I said, you know what, boys? I said, we're going to get two treats today. I'm going to let you have a treat. Then we're going to give a treat away. That's good. And so we did it on the spot and they just, you know, they looked for another child and said, |
| 2:02.6 | here, can I give you a treat today? And of course, the child was so overjoyed. I'm using that |
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