When You Fear for Your Child's Safety
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Does watching the news ever make you terrified for your child's safety? John and Danny offer help for parents who frequently struggle with fear. Featuring Lee Nienhuis. Find us online at focusonthefamily.com/parentingpodcast. Or, call 1-800-A-FAMILY.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.4 | You know when you have children the world suddenly becomes a scarier place. You hear a |
| 0:16.2 | car crash or you get an alert about a dangerous criminal on the loose and you start to worry |
| 0:21.4 | about your child's safety and unfortunately |
| 0:24.3 | your imagination can run wild. I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta who leads our |
| 0:29.7 | parenting and youth department here at Focus on the family and today we're going to hear from a conversation and to feel worry about your child's safety and described how she overcame some of those fears. |
| 0:46.0 | Lee, welcome to focus on the family. It's so good to be here with you today. So how do we, as parents, |
| 0:51.1 | you're sitting there watching your son sing in church one day when you realize |
| 0:54.9 | the catch-22 we have as Christian parents. Maybe this is the crux of the issue. You want them to be that |
| 1:00.5 | superhero. You want them to go out there and write the wrongs of the world at the age |
| 1:05.2 | appropriate way and then you start thinking, wow, that could be dangerous. |
| 1:08.9 | Oh yeah. My son Ryan was in church and you know we're all lined up in the pew for kids and so all within |
| 1:16.6 | arms reach you know so that you can keep them in line yes just seeing them by the back of the |
| 1:21.5 | neck in case they're not behaving bad. |
| 1:24.0 | We were singing, I have decided to follow Jesus and I love that song first of all, but I was wrestling |
| 1:31.4 | with fear of what was going on in our political scene in what was happening in the world around us and it was an internal wrestle and I heard him with his little bitty voice singing I have decided to follow |
| 1:46.7 | Jesus and I was like yes Lord and I knew I mean he was just singing with such exuberance. I knew that everybody around us was laughing too because they could hear him and then he sang no turning back. |
| 2:00.0 | No turning back. And I was like, oh, and then it says the cross before me, the world behind me, |
| 2:09.0 | and all of a sudden it took on a totally different meaning. |
| 2:11.8 | Fear was gripping you. |
| 2:12.8 | That there was a cross before my son. |
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