Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E21: Faith In Fidelity, Part 2
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Teaching children to have faith in fidelity can be accomplished in a series of small steps called "One More Thing," which helps them go a little further and stay with something a little longer than they expected. Soon, if this process is explained to them, they become committed to completing tasks and succeeding. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
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This episode lays a foundation for why parents should be interested in teaching what it is that enables children to keep promises, face and overcome hardship, and retain their loyalty to friends, family, and God. Fidelity is an old word with a new blessing for those who have this kind of faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
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This episode lays a foundation for why parents should be interested in teaching what it is that enables children to keep promises, face and overcome hardship, and retain their loyalty to friends, family, and God. Fidelity is an old word with a new blessing for those who have this kind of faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
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This episode lays a foundation for why parents should be interested in teaching what it is that enables children to keep promises, face and overcome hardship, and retain their loyalty to friends, family, and God. Fidelity is an old word with a new blessing for those who have this kind of faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Faith Is More Than You Think E11: What Faith Feels Like, Part 3
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We talk about three more characteristics of faith that make it easier to identify, teach about, and promote. Faith can be a focused form of loyalty toward others and God, which leads to honesty, regulating thoughts so they are positive and loyal, and training feelings so they are focused on keeping one’s commitments. Faith also increases people’s mental and spiritual abilities to comprehend important principles of truth, and it is quantifiable and can be measured by its emotional intensity in order to comprehend it. We then discuss how to talk to kids when things don’t turn out how they...
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Faith Is More Than You Think E10: What Faith Feels Like, Part 2
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In this episode, we talk about two more aspects of faith that we can learn to recognize—and help our children learn to recognize. Faith is not totally separate from knowledge or reason but is usually strengthened when one’s intellect, evidence, and reason are employed. Also, faith reveals or excites what a person knows about himself by identifying and giving access to added abilities called spiritual gifts. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Faith Is More Than You Think E9: What Faith Feels Like, Part 1
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We want to have faith, but what does that look like? What does faith feel like? How will your children know when they have it? In this episode, we talk about how to teach children about their inner experience so they know what mental and emotional activity to look for so they know when they are experiencing faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Faith Is More Than You Think E8: The Practical Nature of Faith
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Scriptures teach about faith, sure, but faith can also be very practical. Learning about faith is something you and your children can use every day in your religious life and everywhere else. See how faith can be taught and applied as we discuss 10 practical elements of faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E19: Teaching Children To Have Faith In Themselves Is A Gift To Generations That Follow
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Children's early experiences often lead them to be afraid, and then when parents see this, they try to instill confidence. But confidence is not the same as faith because confidence is related to a specific situation while faith is related to children's belief in themselves and their future. Consider making a new effort to promote your children's faith in themselves, and watch them begin to see their futures as something achievable. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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Faith Is More Than You Think E7: Become A Faith-Emergent Family, Part 2
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When parents are teaching their children about faith, they are asking their children to believe in things that are not certain. Since traditional religious training isn’t proving to be enough anymore, what can parents do so that children actually listen, apply, and then use this knowledge to take steps of faith themselves? First, you have to build trust by avoiding harmful behaviors, remove distractions like excessive screen time, and then use your teachings to help them learn how to do hard things, which every person needs to know. Becoming a faith-emergent family will promote so many...
info_outlineIn contrast to no discipline at all or discipline that is highly reactive and somewhat negative, there is a third option: positive discipline, which includes parenting practices that promote growth instead of just limiting bad behavior. In this interview, Dr. Scoresby explains how this approach differs from traditional child discipline and begins a discussion on what parents can do about it now.