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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

When You Have a Strong-Willed Child

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Every child has a unique, God-given personality. But what do you do when your son or daughter is always determined to get his or her way? John and Danny give some hope to parents with a strong-willed son or daughter. Featuring guest Cynthia Tobias.

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0:00.0

So God is blessed my wife and me with six children. They are all unique very very, very different, each one of them. Of those, I would say a

0:15.8

couple of them are line in the sand, my way or the highway, what Dr. Dobson used to call

0:22.0

cigar smoking kids that just kind of tell the world how it's going to be

0:26.0

Strong-willed kids if you're not sure if you have a strong-willed child you don't

0:31.2

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta. He's the vice president of

0:34.5

parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family and Danny you smiled when I made that

0:38.6

descriptor of strong-willed kids. Tell us about your children. Remind those who perhaps don't know about your two or is it three kids?

0:45.8

Well, three kids right now.

0:47.8

Yeah, and that's a whole story in itself.

0:50.4

John, I've grown up with strong-willed people in my home.

0:55.0

We took in several kids into our home as I was growing up.

0:59.0

My parents had definitely an open home.

1:02.0

Big hearts, big hearts. Yeah, cousins and different people like that.

1:05.0

And it's interesting as a parent to now have a daughter that has a leader type of personality.

1:11.0

That's how I like to see it.

1:12.0

Oh, that's a much more positive way than strong way. We have a leader in our hands and remember recently, she's 16 now and she was cutting a watermelon and leaders don't love they're not the most teachable they have to learn

1:25.8

things on their own life yeah by life and mistakes and she had this giant knife and she's

1:32.3

starting to cut it towards her body.

1:34.6

And my son I are going, what in the world are you doing?

1:37.7

That looks super unsafe.

1:39.8

And she goes, what are you talking about?

1:41.5

This is how it's supposed to be done.

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