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The Family and Children's School Achievement: Interview with Dr. Scoresby

Release Date: 10/23/2020

Faith Is More Than You Think E3: Faith In Team Culture

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While faith used in a business sense might sound unusual, faith in your company culture or team culture has a lot to do with how much you enjoy your job, how well your team bonds, and how well people work together to get things done. If you’re a team leader, do you know how to promote faith in the culture of your team? Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Faith Is More Than You Think E2: Where Faith Can Begin

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Many people think that engaging in traditional religious practices, like prayer or scripture study, is enough to produce faith in children, but many children who grow up with these traditional practices do not remain faithful for the rest of their lives. So what else matters? The family environment and how families are organized have a tremendous impact on how receptive children are to parents’ teaching. Learn why and what you can do in your family to help your children better receive what you teach. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Faith Is More Than You Think E1: Faith Has More Reach

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While faith is something people might often think about and even talk about, most people still don’t know the full meaning of it and the tremendous and dramatic benefits of using it. In this episode, we discuss an expansive definition of faith—faith in God, faith in yourself, and faith in your culture—and how faith is one of the first answers to the challenges people are facing today. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E13: Teaching About Faith Helps You Be Confident When You Are Uncertain About What Is Best For Your Children

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There is a lot of uncertainty when it comes to knowing what is best for children. This is not much of a challenge when you’re only facing minor situations, but when there are big consequences, knowing what is best matters a lot. Teaching your children to have faith will help you identify what is best in these uncertain times because faith is involved in virtually every possible solution. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E12: Teaching About Faith Prepares You For The Unexpected

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Every parent faces times when children bring unexpected experiences home. Teaching about faith successfully will help you prepare for those times so you don't overreact or focus on the wrong things. Besides, teaching children to have faith in themselves, in God, and in their culture prepares them and gives them strength to manage their own challenges. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E11: Teach Faith During Life's Important Moments, and Bring Inspiration to You and Your Children

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When parents are able to use the significant moments of their children's lives to teach faith, they bring together a child's experience, the interpretation of it, and knowledge of faith. Putting this together will be helped by the Lord who will send inspiration. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E10: Learn More About Faith So You Are More Successful At Teaching It

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When you decide to learn more about faith, it may amaze you to learn how much more there is to learn. And when you learn more, you will be able to see more different and interesting ways to teach it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E9: How To Help Children Grow Faith

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Growing children's faith usually requires much more than talking. Children will need to be receptive to what they hear, and parents can adjust their methods of teaching as needed. In this episode, you can see the need for thinking both about what you already do and how to create an environment where your children are more likely to receive and believe what you teach. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E8: What Faith Accomplishes

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Learning more about faith can lead to the discovery of its amazing qualities we don't often think about. In this episode, learn some of what faith accomplishes in our lives and how it originates. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E7: Take A Deep Dive Into Faith, And See How Powerful It Has Always Been

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Those who think you might want to do more with teaching your children about faith might discover that it offers more than most of us know, and then we realize it has always been so and we have neglected to use its great blessings for our families. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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In this interview with Dr. Scoresby, he talks about how schools as social institutions connect with and influence families. Parents are concerned about the learning opportunities and experiences their children are getting from their schools, and schools are concerned with the lack of preparation in many of the children who are coming to the schools. Dr. Scoresby provides some practical ways parents can become more informed and involved with their children’s school experience so they can coordinate the good things kids are doing at school with what they experience at home.

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