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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

When a Child Prefers Your Spouse Over You

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like you couldn't get along well with a certain child, but your spouse could? Branda Garrison shares with Jim Daly about how she navigated that very scenario in her own parenting. Plus, John and Danny offer hope to parents who are not on good speaking terms with an adult child.

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0:00.0

I'm sure that if you're married and have kids you've had moments where you and

0:06.8

your spouse have a somewhat different approach to parenting. You're not seeing

0:11.5

eye to eye and it can be a very uncomfortable feeling. I'm John

0:15.4

Fuller along with Dr. Danny where to who heads up our parenting team here at

0:19.2

the ministry and Danny it's pretty common I'm guessing for parents to be on different pages when it comes to the

0:24.8

kids.

0:25.8

Oh yeah yeah it's it's very very common and can be difficult because sometimes one child

0:30.9

connects better with one parent, whereas maybe they're just not connecting

0:35.7

with you.

0:36.7

And for parents, that could bring out some insecurity around rejection that you've struggled

0:40.3

with.

0:42.0

And there's some healthy reasons and there's some unhealthy. struggled with

0:44.1

and there's some healthy reasons and there's some unhealthy reasons why a child

0:46.2

may be attaching more with one parent than the other

0:49.7

or just responding more to one parent.

0:52.8

You know, yeah, I can feel like, uh, what's Dina doing?

0:56.7

I mean, why am I the guy that's out of favor here?

1:00.1

You can love me.

1:01.5

So I guess that's my own insecurity isn't it it can be but you know you

1:05.8

you have to figure it is is one parent more soft than the other and the child

1:09.8

can get away with things and it's you're fostering more selfishness in your child or is it

1:15.0

that personality connects better? Okay. Could be that. Or what about the child

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