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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

This Isn't a Formula!

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

If you have adult children, you know how raising mature kids isn't a one-size fits all formula. John and Danny will encourage you to not rely too much on formulas for raising kids. You'll also hear Jim Daly talk to Brenda Garrison about relying on the Lord when her daughter's needs didn't fit a parenting formula.

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0:00.0

My wife and I have six adult children and I can tell you parenting is not a formula.

0:08.0

Each child has unique needs and desires and will go their own way in life. I'm John Fuller along with

0:15.4

Dr. Danny where to who heads up our parenting team and Danny how do you encourage

0:19.5

parents to remember there isn't a one-size-fits- all there's not a formula that works for

0:24.3

all children and just like that John okay there's no there's no formula there

0:29.5

isn't one and some people will say I wish they came up came with a guide or instructions

0:34.0

and we joke about that we do wish that but that there is no formula that is going

0:39.4

to fix issues and all that this is a transformation for you as a parent just as much as it is for your child.

0:46.0

There are different temperaments, different personalities, different experiences, different relationships, all of that helps perceptions be molded in a child.

0:56.0

And from that, their beliefs, and then their thoughts, and their emotions, and their behaviors,

1:00.0

that's the beauty of it.

1:02.0

God has created us unique as masterpieces of his

1:05.2

creation and we need to remember that. There's not going to be one book, but there

1:09.3

are a lot of books, a lot of information, a lot of things we're talking about that you can take in as you

1:14.7

get to know your child and combine those and begin to respond the best you can to who your child is.

1:21.1

Yeah, not to say there aren't some basics and fundamentals

1:24.3

and some good general perceptions and tools.

1:28.5

But we have to be dealing with each child uniquely.

1:32.1

Well, let's go ahead and kind of move that idea into

1:36.3

adulthood and talk to Brenda Garrison who faced a lot of struggles with her

1:41.6

daughter Katie and Brenda shares pretty honestly about the pain that many parents feel about an adult child.

1:49.0

Here she is now with Focus President Jim Daly.

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