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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

The Great Balance of Parenting

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Disciplining your child is critically important for helping him or her develop as a person. But if you overuse discipline, it can backfire on you as a parent. John and Danny explain why it's good to not repeat yourself too much when asking your kids to do something. Featuring Dr. Kevin Leman and Jean Daly.

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0:00.0

Every parent wants what's best for our kids. Sometimes that means we have to intervene, to offer some discipline perhaps or correction.

0:12.0

If you work too hard at that though there's a chance

0:15.0

there could be some rebellion and we'll explain more as we go along today.

0:19.5

Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny where to

0:23.1

he leads our parenting team here at the ministry and Danny you've seen this I

0:28.5

know as a counselor and therapist as a life coach. You've seen discipline employed in a negative way and

0:38.0

it's got some consequences for the kids that aren't very pretty.

0:43.3

Yeah, and that was the heart behind the seven traits

0:45.0

of effective parenting.

0:46.2

Okay.

0:46.9

Because it's a balance of warmth and sensitivity

0:49.6

and love and guidance in discipline and correction. It's a balance of the. and So if it's all rules, you're going to create some

1:03.2

momentum in your child that are really can be

1:06.3

self-destructive. One is fear and shame. And I've

1:09.4

seen that in kids that are a little bit more of the timid or the peacemaker types, the

1:14.5

rule followers, and they get corrected and over-corrected. All of a sudden you see the

1:18.5

fear, the shame, they don't feel worthy of other people.

1:23.1

Sometimes panic disorder comes in in that.

1:25.8

And then you have kids that are more of the leader types

1:28.3

and they get over corrected and you see anger and rebellion, sometimes you see sneakiness with that and especially the social types.

1:38.0

So you see a response, a reaction from the child trying to react to that and if a parent's too permissive then also you

1:45.9

you know giving no rules and no correction you get other issues as well with the child

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