Conversations in Your Head

10/08/21 • 24 min

Fatherhood: Perspectives on Righteous Intentional Parenting

Joseph and Taylor talk about the influence negative self-defeating thoughts can have, and how to short circuit them. How to get your kids talking to you, and keep them talking, so you can help them to overcome or avoid negative self-talk and worry.

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Looking For Truth

Joseph and Taylor discuss the challenges children face in finding a trusted source of information. Joseph shares a story about breaking the news that can often blow a child’s mind – Santa’s not real, Santa is a wonderful idea and tradition. We can lose our children’s trust in so many ways – this is just one example.

So, how do we protect that relationship and keep the channels of communication open? Taylor and Joseph discuss a few ideas that might help.

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Prayer and Life's Lessons

Joseph and Taylor discuss experiences in teaching there children how to have faith, and in praying to God for help. There stories include great – perhaps even miraculous – experiences of encouraging their children to pray for something, and then their own time pleading with God to answer the prayer of their child.

But, realizing perhaps they should have worried so much as even an seemingly unanswered prayer can be the subject for great learning and discussion. That, at times, the best learning comes from stepping back and allowing experience to teach. It’s can be hard to appreciate at the time, but looking back we and our children will find we learned the most when something was hard.