Setting Healthy Boundaries with Your Kids, Part 8

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Often, the problem is not what your child says, it's his or her tone. John and Danny discuss ways to nip that creeping disrespect from your child in the bud. Receive the book Boundaries With Kids with your gift of any amount!

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at
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0:11.0	Okay, so that tone, you know the one I'm talking about.
0:14.8	Your child's words may seem benign, but that's really not what you're hearing in that
0:21.7	voice. You just see. You're wanting to go a little
0:25.1	ballistic at that tone. I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and the encouragement is,
0:32.4	don't lose your cool mom and dad make sure your kids
0:36.2	understand the rules ahead of time that is a key Danny and I wish I would
0:40.8	learn that one a lot sooner than I did.
0:43.0	Right, and I like the word ballistic there,
0:45.0	John, ballistic missiles.
0:47.0	That was suggested to me by Tammy, our producer.
0:50.0	Good word.
0:51.0	Yeah, you want to review the expectations.
0:53.2	What's interesting here though is that moms and dads rarely agree on the boundaries
0:58.2	right off hand, just naturally.
1:00.2	Personalities are different.
1:02.1	They've been raised differently. They may not agree on the full deal,
1:05.9	make sure you're not showing that in front of the kids because that disrespect grows with that.
1:10.3	Well and if the kids sense a hole that they can manipulate, they'll drive a truck through that thing real fast, won't they?
1:16.0	They will. And they will use some tones to gain the favor of one parent or another.
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