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The world is busy messaging to your children, and it's really, really important for a parent to recognize what a

powerful role you have, what an incredible opportunity you have to speak into the life on a

regular basis of your son or your daughter, who you are, why you're wonderful. That's Matt Jacobson

with some great insights for parents, whether you're dealing with toddlers or teens or even adult

children. Matt and his wife, Lisa, are back with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly,

and we thank you for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, we had a really encouraging and engaging

conversation last time with Matt and Lisa. It was filled with reminders about how to build

stronger lifelong relationships with our children.

You know, one of the best pieces of advice I think I've heard sitting at the studio was think

of your teens as 30-somethings and what kind of relationship do you want.

That's a great long goal because I think parenting is here and now.

It's correcting behavior

and making sure you got your finger in the hole in the dike here and there. And, you know,

it just, it seems like we're not thinking who are these kids 20 years from now and how am I

going to be relating to them. But you're building into that relationship when they are

eight and 13 and 16.

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