Teaching Your Kids Not to Complain
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The truth is, getting your children to be thankful is easier said than done. It doesn't come naturally, but it's possible. John and Danny offer some ideas for helping your kids to practice thankfulness.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com. |
| 0:08.6 | In the New Testament Book of Philippians, chapter 2, we're told to do all things without grumbling. |
| 0:18.0 | And if you and I are honest, it's a lot easier said than done to implement that in our parenting. I'm John |
| 0:25.8 | Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta. He's the Vice President of the |
| 0:29.0 | parenting and youth department here at Focus on the family and Danny I think we are all just inclined to complain to whine |
| 0:37.6 | Why is that destructive within the context of the home? It creates momentum and the momentum builds right? A |
| 0:45.2 | negative momentum. A negative momentum there's a ripple effect. Tension |
| 0:50.0 | increases there's there's really no solution that you're pointing the family |
| 0:55.0 | towards. It's just a complaining and a negativity and it feeds itself and grows |
| 1:01.3 | unless there's a counter momentum and that's optimism, |
| 1:05.0 | positivity, hope and excitement for things to come that could reverse |
| 1:10.0 | something that's not so good. |
| 1:12.0 | So your role as a parent you can bring some |
| 1:14.9 | counter-momentums to something that's happening in your home and being |
| 1:20.2 | negative will create not only destructiveness but disconnection. |
| 1:25.0 | Most people don't want to be around negative. |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, that just becomes one of those prickly things. |
| 1:31.0 | I don't want to be around that. |
| 1:32.1 | Let me move on. So, well let's go ahead and hear part of a conversation |
| 1:35.6 | Jim Daly and I had with Tricia Goyer who told about a challenge she gave to her family to stop complaining. |
| 1:44.0 | Tricia, welcome back to focus. |
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