Why Teaching Joy Matters
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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How do you teach your kids to have joy, even if your circumstances are rough right now? Danny shares how he learned about contentment from his grandpa. Plus, Jim Daly talks to Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey on how to find joy, even if you don't consider yourself a joyful person.
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| 0:00.0 | Is your marriage struggling, communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve? |
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| 0:32.5 | It is amazing. When you teach your child to be joyful and to kind of access the power of joy it |
| 0:40.1 | reframes everything i'm john fuller along with dr danny werta and danny joy it can carry us through |
| 0:47.9 | the hardest of seasons can't it can and it's it's really a posture towards it it It's not a feeling. And I remember the first time that |
| 0:57.8 | I learned this was probably in the garden with my grandpa, him whistling and singing no matter what |
| 1:05.5 | the adversity was, he loved to sing praises to Jesus. |
| 1:16.1 | And so I've learned throughout the years to smile when there's a difficulty in front of me because it creates a posture of the soul. |
| 1:18.6 | And I picture God's smile behind that, his strength with that smile, that, hey, you've got this, Lord, I know it. |
| 1:26.7 | And you smile knowing that there's that, that God's got my back here in this, in this |
| 1:32.3 | difficulty. |
| 1:33.1 | And that's where you find joy. |
| 1:35.0 | You said, it's going to be all right. |
| 1:37.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.6 | God is with me. |
| 1:38.5 | Now, maybe you didn't have someone like Danny had, a grandfather who demonstrated that. |
| 1:43.3 | Maybe you grew up in a home of adversity or of people that weren't wired that way. |
| 1:48.2 | This conversation is for you. |
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