You're listening to Family Talk, the radio broadcasting division of the James Dobson Family Institute.

I am that James Dobson, and I'm so pleased that you've joined us today.

Well, welcome to Family Talk. I'm Roger Marsh. On today's program, we're continuing an important

conversation about building character in the lives of your children. Dr. Dobson is joined once again by

family expert, counselor, and educator John Rosemond to explore the final two ours of effective parenting,

and those are responsibility and resourcefulness.

Now, in the second part of their discussion, you'll discover practical strategies for teaching kids to own their choices and develop problem-solving skills.

From homework battles to chore challenges, John Roseman shares time-tested wisdom that helps children grow into capable,

confident adults. So here now to introduce the second half of his conversation with John

Roseman is our own Dr. James Thompson for today's edition of Family Talk.

John, in our conversation yesterday, we focused primarily on the issue of respect, which is a cornerstone of parent-child relationships.

In fact, I've written 18 or 20 books now, and the word respect probably underlies every one of them one way or another, whether it's on marriage or relationships with

people outside the family and certainly on the issue of child rearing. But we talked about that

last time. Let's go on to the other two that you have discussed in your book, a family,

a value.

And the second one is responsibility.

Right.

Explain how you mean that and how in the world we teach that.

Well, there are actually two aspects to that.

When I use the term responsibility, I'm using the term in the sense of teaching children to accept responsibility for their own behavior. And I'm also using the term to refer to teaching children to accept instruction and assignment from adults who are legitimate authority figures. Teach them to work. Teach him to work, yeah. So there's two components to that. And the way you teach the first

is you understand that when a child misbehaves, he is not going to give one confronted in all likelihood, the young child especially,

a valid explanation of why he misbehaved. And in this regard, I oftentimes refer to Genesis

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