Should we force our son to participate in church activities?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Janet and addresses the question, “Should we force our son to participate in church activities?” There’s no right way to make this decision. As a parent, you need to decide what your non-negotiables are based on your relationship with the child, who the child is, and how to best parent that child. During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides Janet through fear that by not letting her son have a say or a choice, her son would make some of the same choices...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.3	Today on the podcast, I'm happy to welcome Janet.
0:49.0	Thanks for being here, Janet.
0:51.0	Thank you for having me.
0:52.5	Tell me, what is your question for me today? Okay, so my question,
0:57.8	I feel like it's a bit of a three-part question, but I'm sure we'll get into that. So are we
1:03.6	forcing our son to participate in seminary and other church activities. Okay.
1:14.8	So tell me a little bit about what's going on right now with your son.
1:20.5	So we have, obviously I'm a member of Church Jesus Christ, I'll have today say it's here in England.
1:21.9	I have three older daughters.
1:24.7	They're all adults now.
1:26.1	And then our youngest son is 14. And I just feel like
1:30.6	he's very different anyway, enthusiastically about church. They were always, you know, they
1:36.0	would go to conference and make notes and, you know, have the scriptures out and mark them,
1:40.7	and he's just not into that at all. So he enjoys attending church, you know, he passes the sacrament, but other than that,
1:50.0	he just doesn't want to go to anything.
1:53.3	Fire side, youth on the evening.
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