Struggles Make Them Stronger
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Many of us want to protect our kids. Yet, if we don't allow them to struggle sometimes, they'll never grow. Jim Daly and Lucille Williams discuss lessons they've learned about why we should not overprotect our children. Danny will also talk with John about a time he saw his daughter overcome an obstacle she faced.
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 25 years, Monica suffered from an addiction to drugs and alcohol, |
| 0:06.1 | fueled in part by her painful and shameful past. |
| 0:10.3 | The thought would come to my mind that I had had these abortions. |
| 0:15.0 | I would not want to think about it because the pain was just too real. |
| 0:19.9 | Thankfully, God healed Monica's heart, and today, she supports focus on the family's |
| 0:25.2 | pro-life ministry. |
| 0:26.7 | I want to support a ministry that can help change the trajectory of people's life that are |
| 0:32.7 | contemplating abortion. |
| 0:34.6 | I can't go back in time and change my life and change my decisions, but I can support a |
| 0:40.9 | ministry that can help positively change someone else's. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies and give |
| 0:48.1 | families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled. Call 800A family or visit focus on the family.com |
| 0:56.6 | slash gift. |
| 1:02.5 | It might be easy to want to protect your child from hard things in life, but the truth is hard times |
| 1:09.3 | are coming and what are they going to do when they |
| 1:11.8 | face those challenges? That's a big question. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny, who heads |
| 1:16.9 | up the focus on the family parenting department. Danny, you've counseled parents to not over-protect |
| 1:22.6 | their child. Now, we've talked about this before, but how do you advise parents to navigate this desire to keep our kids from hard things? |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah, and it's really going to that equipping. |
| 1:35.6 | How are you equipping your child? |
| 1:37.1 | How are you preparing them for being on their own and not being dependent on you as a parent? |
| 1:43.8 | And also learning to depend on God |
| 1:46.0 | and gathering the fact that failure and adversity creates strength. |
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