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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Traits of Resilience

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It's inspiring to see someone who doesn't give up, even when things get tough. As a parent, you want to instill that kind of toughness in your son or daughter. John and Danny talk about encouraging your kids to not give up; plus, Jim Daly speaks with Dr. Kathy Koch about the benefits of resiliency.

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0:00.0

It's really inspiring to see or know someone who never gives up even when things get hard.

0:09.0

Honestly, I was just talking to one of my girls the other day and I said you are bold and brave and

0:14.4

courageous and strong because she's had some hard things and she just she's like one of those

0:20.0

little plastic fishing boys she just keeps popping up to the top of the surface. She isn't

0:25.4

artificial in that. She just presses on. It's something that I don't think I really gave her.

0:31.0

It's just something in her psyche and in her personality but it's

0:34.2

joy to behold. I'm John Fuller with our vice president of parenting Danny

0:39.1

Werta and we're returning now to a conversation that focused president Jim Daly and I had with Dr. Kathy Cook.

0:45.8

She speaks about how her parents taught her to be resilient.

0:50.5

Okay, your childhood, you had an example in the book where you were in a lake swimming,

0:55.8

something happened, your parents engaged, but tell us the story and what you did.

1:00.7

Yeah, I was vacationed with my whole family cousins and I was you

1:04.4

know under the water and I felt something hit me and I wasn't aware what it was got out of the

1:08.4

water put my hand to my forehead, removed my hand and it was totally red.

1:13.3

Of course the blood had expanded beyond normal

1:15.8

because of all the water from the lake,

1:17.6

terrified, screamed for my mom.

1:19.7

She thought it was playing a game,

1:20.9

didn't take me seriously, but eventually came back and realized I was

1:24.0

really hurt,

1:25.0

called for my dad who was in the lake fishing, not in the lake,

1:28.0

on a boat fishing in the lake,

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