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🗓️ 3 December 2024
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Has your child ever said, "I'm just not good enough?" How do you respond well in those moments when he or she says that? Danny talks with John about how his daughter struggled with saying similar things about herself. Also, Lucille Williams and Jim Daly share why it's important to teach your kids about the dangers of unhealthy comparison.
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0:32.5 | I remember a time when one of my children was expressing the essence of this phrase, I'm just not good |
0:38.9 | enough. I think all of us struggle with this, but if you're a parent, what do you do when that |
0:43.7 | question or that feeling arises in your child? I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny who heads up |
0:50.1 | the focus on the family parenting department. Danny, I think, as I said, this is something we all struggle with, but how do we handle |
0:56.3 | this as a parent? |
0:57.7 | Well, it's really about being present with your kids and listening, validating the fact that |
1:03.0 | it's so easy to compare ourselves with other people. |
1:06.7 | And in that comparison, usually we see all the things we don't have in that person, especially |
1:12.9 | if we're in a place of self-doubt or insecurity. |
1:16.2 | And I remember my daughter and my son having moments of wrestling with, am I enough when |
1:23.0 | they were comparing themselves with certain kids that were, certain classmates, really, |
1:26.9 | that were successful in certain areas that they wanted certain classmates, really, that were successful |
1:27.8 | in certain areas that they wanted to be successful at. So with my son, it was basketball. |
1:33.0 | He had certain moments of comparison there. They weren't long lasting, but it was important for me |
1:38.3 | to stop and listen to that and not say, ah, don't compare yourself. It was just, why do you think |
1:43.5 | you're comparing yourself to him? |
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