Should You Follow Your Heart?
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The advice to "follow your heart" sounds innocuous in movies, but it can lead you astray in real life. John and Danny discuss the importance of giving your children sound life advice. Featuring Ray Vander Laan. Find us online at focusonthefamily.com/parentingpodcast. Or, call 1-800-A-FAMILY.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you've probably watched a |
| 0:02.0 | focus on the family parenting podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find more helpful advice at focus on the family |
| 0:08.0 | dot com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | You've probably watched a Disney movie or two or ten with your kids and may have noticed a fairly common theme. |
| 0:18.0 | When the main character faces a difficult decision, some wise guardian shows up and says something like this as long as you follow |
| 0:25.1 | your heart you'll end up on the right path. |
| 0:28.7 | And those movies have happy endings because following your heart is so no it's not in real life is it it can really lead you astray |
| 0:36.1 | This is John Fuller along with Danny Werta |
| 0:38.8 | Danny is a counselor and leads our parenting and youth department here and Focus on the Family and Danny what do you |
| 0:43.5 | think about that advice you know follow your heart follow your passion is that really |
| 0:48.8 | something good to tell our kids no there's plenty of that in culture already. |
| 0:53.0 | If you look at advertisements on TV or musicians, what they're talking about is you pursuing whatever makes you happy in these passions that you have and we've been designed with |
| 1:04.4 | passion for a reason there is there is a good side to passion but you need to |
| 1:08.3 | understand it why am I passionate about it and many times our experiences over time have formed what we're passionate about in order to satisfy a deeper need. |
| 1:18.0 | And so you want to watch out for that. You want to understand it and then seek wisdom and I know that |
| 1:24.3 | Lexi and I have talked about her multiple passions to want to pursue a variety of |
| 1:30.7 | interests is your teenage daughter that's daughter. Yes, she's now 15 and is wanting to pursue a number of things and as parents we can reflect that back to them. Oh, that sounds interesting that that's what you interested in, and also you're interested in this and that, and helping them narrow down what they're wanting to invest their time in. |
| 1:51.0 | And passions aren't always good. in and just because it's a passion doesn't make it good and that's what we have to |
| 1:58.0 | remember as parents and to give that to our kids as a gift that if there's a passion that's good to work with but that's not |
| 2:05.8 | the destination you're going after. |
| 2:07.4 | Got it. |
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