I used to say I was an optimist but I think, uh, nope, I'm not even a realist. I was a pretty pessimistic person,

but I've become Mr optimism Mr. Sunshine and Roses.

Today we're going to discuss how you can balance

being positive and realistic as a parent,

and we have a great guest to do that.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta who heads up our parenting team and do you lean well I don't even have to ask Danny you're an optimist aren't you? I am yes love being optimistic and we've had a lot of laughs in our home on this very thing.

Because you're so optimistic?

Well my wife is more on the pessimistic side and I am very much on the optimistic side and there there's a term out there on

ever optimistic or something it's just eternally optimistic you say it that way, but it was a special term and we've talked about that that we

Anything that that we're looking at she's gonna look at the pessimistic side the you know the realistic side. I'm to look at the pessimistic side, the, you know, the realistic side, I'm going to look at the

optimistic side, and we blend well with each other on that.

Make sure you laugh at this one together as a couple, because you could point fingers at each other

there's pros and cons to both. Being pessimistic you look at the realistic side of

things and that's not necessarily a bad thing you can learn from the optimist and

the optimist can learn from the optimist and the optimist can learn from the pessimist to

to learn you know there are some realities to life and it's okay to sometimes feel

sad or think that something's not gonna go right and that that's okay there's not bad to have that.

So make sure you have fun with it.

We're wired as we are by God for some mysterious reasons and he puts us together so often and parenting will certainly

test whether or not you're an optimist or pessimist. We're going to turn now to a

very popular guest Dr. Kathy Cook.

She's been here a number of times and she in focus president Jim Daly talked

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