Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at focus on the family.com

slash parenting podcast. You know little children tend to be like sponges. They're just drinking in your

every word they're watching everything you do everything you say is true to

them. So now is a good time if you have younger children in the home to start teaching biblical truths,

modeling biblical truths like who made you and what is my purpose and why did God make you.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta, the Vice President of

parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family and Danny this is something parents

can do from a really young age like how young can I start teaching my kid about God? Oh really really young

and what's fascinating to me is that empathy begins super early for kids.

15 months, 18 months, they will pick up

on whatever emotions you've got.

And so sometimes you have kids that start crying

because they see somebody in distress

and they have this natural desire to fix it.

They want to help out.

And what you want to do is begin teaching how kids can be notissors, notissors of God's creation, notissors of what

God's word is all about, notissors of people, and maybe you can term it that.

Well, you know, let's be noticers,

because then they can become builders in God's kingdom.

And that's a great step to become first

a noticer of his kingdom early on,

then builders and then connectors within that kingdom.

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