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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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It's difficult to process when your teen misbehaves. John and Danny open up about times their kids didn't behave well, and what they learned as dads. Plus, Jim Daly and Jodie Berndt address why trying to control your teenager's behavior is a poor parenting strategy.
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0:00.0 | So, Danny, some years ago, somebody at church was talking to a mutual friend and they said, |
0:08.4 | I wish my kids were like the Fuller's children. |
0:11.2 | And the implication was the Fuller's children never misbehave, which was so out of the box |
0:16.5 | wrong. |
0:17.0 | I mean, I think at the time, one of my kids was sneaking out of the house at night that we didn't know about. |
0:23.3 | And another one was trying to bypass, successfully did so, by the way, bypass the filters on the home Wi-Fi. |
0:30.9 | So kids are going to, they're going to act out. |
0:33.4 | And what are you going to do about this? |
0:35.2 | I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny Wererta, who leads the parenting team, and by extension, |
0:39.7 | then, has perfect children who never acted out. |
0:42.5 | Absolutely. |
0:43.1 | So, Danny, what do you do when you find out your children is misbehaving? |
0:47.5 | Let's say your teenager is misbehaving. |
0:49.7 | How do you handle that? |
0:51.2 | Well, I mean, it is frustrating. |
0:53.4 | It triggers your emotions. I mean, it's |
0:56.7 | natural to have a reaction to your kids misbehaving because it feels like it's an extension |
1:01.1 | of you. I must have done something wrong or misbehaving, but we're raising human beings |
1:06.6 | that need shaping and they're not born shapen. And they are bound to make some poor decisions. |
1:12.8 | And we've talked on the show before, John, that we make an estimated 35,000 decisions a day. |
1:20.3 | 35,000 decisions. |
1:22.7 | That could be the episode title. |
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