Thankfulness, Kindness and Mercy
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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How do you have real peace in a chaotic world? Maybe something called gratitude might help? Jim Daly and Kay Wyma discuss how to teach your kids to be thankful. Also, Danny gives some tips for how to help your child if he or she is having a bad attitude
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| 0:32.6 | As you parent your kids toward the destination of launching them, you want to equip them with a sense |
| 0:39.1 | of gratitude. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Werta, and we're going to listen now to |
| 0:44.1 | a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Jim spoke with Kay Wyma about a book she wrote called |
| 0:50.4 | The Peace Project. For the person, I'm thinking of the frazzled mom, and we have frazzled dad, so I get that, |
| 0:57.0 | but just the picture of that person like Kay, who says, Kay, really? |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah, you like that, like Kay. |
| 1:03.9 | Yes. |
| 1:04.3 | But that 30-day challenge, you know, the 30-day peace project, really? |
| 1:10.0 | Someone's going, I can't do it for an hour. How do you expect me to do this for 30 days? Okay, but they're so easy and anybody can do them. Okay. Here's the thing. Some days you want, okay, so thankfulness, kindness, and mercy. It's like, let's define what those are. So when I started it, because when they said, hey, I did it, I didn't know it was something to do. |
| 1:28.8 | And then once I knew it was something to do, I was like, let's try it. And so I got my kids on board, which they are, why? Why do they say? Teenagers, how did you do that? That's a good question. I don't know. I think they're just so tired of me that they'll be like, yes, we'll do another. I know. And it was great. So I got a little |
| 1:45.5 | notebook for them. I had all my friends from that morning wanting to do it too. So we really actually embarked on it to see if it was something. And we defined it. Thankfulness, so 30 days doing these three things. Thankfulness is just like one thing to be thankful for and writing it down. Each day. |
| 1:59.8 | Each day. |
| 2:00.4 | And I made the rule with my kids. |
| 2:02.0 | It couldn't be the same thing. |
| 2:03.4 | The second thing, kindness, it has just like one thing to be thankful for and writing it down. Each day. Each day. And I made the rule |
| 2:01.4 | with my kids. It couldn't be the same thing. The second thing, kindness, it has to be an altruistic |
| 2:05.8 | act of kindness, which could be anything. Like kindness is so simple to do and the opportunities |
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