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If you're anxious about your child's future, you might do everything in your power to

ensure their good grades and their college entrance and future job opportunities.

And if you're mowing down every obstacle in their way, you're not a helicopter parent, you might be a bulldozer parent.

I'm John Fuller joined by Danny Huerta, who leads our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family.

And today we're going to hear some insights and wisdom from Michael Anderson and Dr. Timothy

Johanson.

They're going to point out that allowing your child to make mistakes is crucial for their growth.

They explained more to focus president Jim Daly and me and here's how we open the

conversation. We try to protect our children so much from difficulty in life and the program we began last

time the conversation had a lot to do with kind of reframing my parental mindset so I'm a little bit more inclined to let life teach

my kids but that's so hard.

Well it is and I think it's counterintuitive to what we're taught in this environment and this day and age

about parenting, which is create boundaries, hold the line, which are important things,

but what I love about what our guests are talking about is think a little differently

you know those disappointments as we just heard actually will teach your kids

responsibility and doing the right thing in a way that doesn't force you to give up the

relational equity that you have and I'm hearing this as much as a dad as I think

you are in the listenership. And Jim that quote bucket list of things that

kids need to experience I mentioned this to my daughter last night my 16 year old

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