Patience With Kids: Avoiding The Rut Of Reacting
How do we practice patience with our kids? How do we avoid the rut of reacting? It involves scripture, making a plan & practicing the plan.
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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Christian talk radio with Jim Daly
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About Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Hosted by Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family, this half-hour program is the cornerstone of Focus on the Family's home-strengthening outreach. Focus on the Family provides biblically-based advice for marriage and parenting with heart-touching stories and help for families.
Hosted by Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family, this half-hour program is the cornerstone of Focus on the Family's home-strengthening outreach. Focus on the Family provides biblically-based advice for marriage and parenting with heart-touching stories and help for families.
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How to Fight Fair - II
Disagreements are a part of life, especially married life. But how can you use conflict to actually achieve deeper intimacy with your spouse? Marriage experts Les Leslie Parrott describe how you can share your feelings without ending up in a shouting match.
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How to Fight Fair
Dr. John Gottman and his researchers can predict with almost 95-percent accuracy whether a couple’s marriage will succeed or fail. Their predictions are based on how couples fight – not how frequently or even the content of their disagreements – but how couples actually engage in conflict. They discovered four elements to conflict – which Dr. Gottman calls “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” – that are destructive to a relationship: Criticism Defensiveness Contempt Stonewalling If the Four Horseman mean certain destruction, how can couples avoid them?
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Raising Christian Teens to Be Effective Disciples
Raise Christian teens as strong disciples. Learn to build a godly home, use tech positively, and foster resilience against peer pressure.
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Simple Planning Steps for Big Results
Are you more of a planner or a spontaneous parent? Danny and John share how they approach planning vs. spontaneity. Then, Jim Daly talks with Kristi Clover about how to balance planning with flexibility as a mom or dad.
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When You and Your Spouse Are the Same Birth-Order
Many couples tend to marry someone outside of their birth-order. But what about the scenario where people of the same birth-order get married? Dr. Kevin Leman talks with Jim Daly about when middle children and babies of the family get married to each other. Then, Erin and John discuss why it's important to not assume your spouse is a certain personality, based on if he or she is a first-born, middle child, or youngest.