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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E5: Become a Faith-Emergent Family
Even in the busyness of life, parents can make changes in their families when their children are involved. If you decide to become a faith-emergent family, this means you give more emphasis to teaching faith and organizing your family to ensure that your children will trust you and learn how to exercise freedom—not as an option but as an essential part of the recipe. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E4: Parent-Child Communication That Determines Whether Children Have Faith and Keep It
Discover the types of parent-child communication that influence whether children are receptive to parents' teachings, and see how ritualized forms of communication can either lead children to mistrust their parents or honor and learn from them. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E3: Discovering the Connections Between the Family and Children's Faith
For many years, we thought of faith as an individual quality that develops within each person. But research has revealed that families influence children's faith in several different ways. This means that parents can actively teach children to develop faith and ensure that their faith works for them while they are children and when they are adults too. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E2: What Parents Don't Know About Teaching Faith
When Dr. Scoresby began to ask what parents do or could do to teach their children about faith, he said he got a lot of strange looks and then was told by many parents that they read scriptures, pray, and attend church with their children. This is a great answer, but then he asked them if they had specific ideas about how parents could teach it. When met with uncertainty, he discovered that there are some things parents would like to know, so if you listen to this episode, you will begin to get an idea about what we as parents may not know and should know about teaching faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E1: Why You Should Light the Fire
What would you say if someone asked what you thought was the one single thing we could do to help our families and our society? Lighting the fire of your children's faith is the one thing that will help them the most and help you create the type of family you would like. This episode will introduce you to what this series will bring to you and will help you get ready to learn some amazing things about teaching and increasing faith in many areas of life. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E10: Helping Children Sort Out Confusion
In this episode, learn how to resolve two risk conditions for healthy gender identity: emotional enmeshment and influence from the internet. Emotional enmeshment reduces freedom and creates anxiety. At the same time, ever-increasing access to the internet creates a perfect storm of confusion, but you can compensate for it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E9: What Parents Can Do And What They Should Not Do When It Comes to Gender
Learn more about what you can do to avoid the errors that can lead to gender-related problems, and learn how to solve the extreme emotions that many consider to be a cause. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E8: Mutual Respect Early Improves Relationships Later
We are often allowing children to learn negative words and hostile reactions to the other gender. As a result, both boys and girls often carry these ideas and feelings into their relationships later on. Now is the time for greater emphasis on respect rather than pursuing equity or equality. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E7: Succeeding in Relationships with the Other Sex
It now appears that parents will need to prepare their 21st-century children to succeed with the other sex. In past generations, this seemed to be a foregone conclusion, that the forces of nature would motivate and make that possible, but divorce rates and declining rates of marriage suggest otherwise. In this episode, find out what is impacting our children negatively so you can adapt and help your children succeed in their relationships. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and answers for 21st-century parents.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E6: Three Experience Areas for Gender
In this episode, learn how children form their inner core of knowledge about themselves, and learn about the family's role as a small community where children are influenced and how the social world around them can affect them. These experience areas will give you ideas about what you can do to promote healthy gender identities in your children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and answers for 21st-century parents.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E5: How Gender Identity Forms
In this episode, you can learn the process children go through developmentally to acquire their gender identity. Understanding this process will help you to also see how you can play a vital role in influencing your children's gender identity as male or female. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and answers for 21st-century parents.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E4: Five Types of Identity and How They Form
When children acquire self-knowledge, learn about free choice, develop awareness, and then participate fully in their families, five possibilities emerge. By understanding what is successful and not successful, you can be better equipped to do what is more effective with your children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E3: Learn the Steps to a Healthy Identity
Researchers have identified four experience domains that make up an individual's identity and shape how it develops. In each of these four areas, there are things you can do as a parent that can ensure that your children are healthy and successful. When you learn these methods, you can feel more confident as a parent. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E2: The Types of Identity and Their Conclusion
Reviewing Erikson's eight stages of identity can show us how identities develop over time. With this in mind, you can also learn what you can do to influence your children toward a healthy gender identity. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and relationships.
A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E1: You Can Influence Your Child's Gender Identity
The remarkable increase lately in gender-related problems tells us that we should be searching for a better way to help our children. This episode introduces a rationale for parents to learn more in order to promote healthy development in their children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and relationships.
Instead of Divorce, Try This E2: Find the Rhythm of Positive Communication
The people most likely to get a divorce think the problems between them stem from some personality defect or inadequacy. Affairs, for example, are considered a defect. Those less likely to divorce understand that the cause of their marital problems has to do with inadequate transmission or communication. In this episode, learn positive and negative forms of communication so you change the negative, improve the positive, and perhaps avoid a divorce. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and relationships.
Instead of Divorce, Try This E1: Avoid the Principal Causes of Divorce
Instead of being numbered among the rising tide of those who get divorced, learn proven methods in this series of avoiding or solving serious relationship problems. In this episode, learn some of the principal causes of divorce and a few preliminary things couples can do to avoid them. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and relationships.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E18: Creating the Ties that Allow You to Love Well
When your children become young adults, it can be one of the best times for your family if you have prepared them well. Learn what to do to successfully prepare your children by creating a family forum to accommodate children who leave, then return, then leave again. Remember freedom is more influential than control. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and mental health.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E17: Parenting Young Adults—Free Yourself from the Ties That Bind and Create the Ties of Love and Respect
Today young adults are running into more contradictions, biases, and intolerance that may not have existed at any other time since the civil war. In addition, the relaxing and disappearance of clear moral structures presents confusion so that many resort to the idea that there is nothing better than their own opinions and preferences. Learn about the milestones successful young adults demonstrate, and learn how you can help them. You will have a better time if you do. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and mental health.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E16: Make Your Children's Teenage Years the Best Years
Adolescent children face significant challenges that can be harmful to them or prepare them for success. Their success may even depend on what you do. Learn about the milestones of growth for teens so you can see the progress your children are making, and learn how to help them. It takes more time and effort to solve problems than it does to prevent them. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and mental health.
Raising Children Who Continue Their Faith E1: Enduring Faith
Most of us know someone with one or more children who have left religion and are unwilling to exercise faith in God and Jesus Christ. Even with great resources provided by our churches and actual experience with faith, increasing numbers of our children are losing their faith. One possible reason why children lose their faith might be what happens—or fails to happen—in their family. In this episode, you will learn the family dynamics that are the foundation for faith. If these are mishandled, it can lead to children's failure to develop and then live faith-filled lives. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and relationships.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E15: Threats to Teenage Children, Ages 12–18
For 21st-century children to succeed, they need parents that understand the threats to their growth. Learn the 15 threats that impact your teens so you can adapt your parenting appropriately during this stage and make this time as great as it can be. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and mental health.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E14: Firm, Flexible, Conversant, and Accountable Parenting, Ages 12–18
Adolescence is considered a critical period in our society because teenagers' development can be impacted in so many ways. This is one reason why it is important to provide firm, flexible, conversant, and accountable parenting during these years. Learn how to successfully apply this form of parent leadership and feel more confident with your teens. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and tons of resources for families and mental health.
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Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E13: Find Uniqueness and Create a Strong Family Community, Ages 6–11
As parents, we adapt to our children as they mature so we can provide the conditions that will help them avoid the pitfalls or threats to their growth. This works best when you communicate to your children that you understand each one of them in a unique manner and at the same time make your family the primary point of reference for your children. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E12: Individualizing and Belonging, Ages 6–11
When parents adjust their leadership to match their children's ages and stages, they will also need to have two types of knowledge: what healthy development looks like and the nature of the threats that can adversely affect children. In this episode, learn how to begin the process of adjusting to the circumstances your children ages 6-11 are in and turning them into success. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E11: Promote 5 Kinds of Growth in Children, Birth–5 years
There are several things you can do to create a great formula for success as a parent leader of children in this generation. In this episode, you will find descriptions of the five types of growth and development you're working toward and how to apply ten impact practices that increase the possibility of your parenting success. Learning these will give you a set of tools that will help you feel confident that what you are doing is the right thing for your children. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E10: Clear, Predictable, and Nurturing Leadership for Children, Birth–5 years
The exciting benefits of parent leadership can be seen when parents adapt to the maturing of their children, to individual children, and adapt their family to promote children's development. See how this works for children from birth to five years of age. Knowing how children will develop and then matching what you do to help them will provide a lot of satisfaction and fulfillment for you and success for your children. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E9: Getting the Good Things You Teach in Your Family Applied Outside Your Family
Good parents want to make sure the important lessons they teach their children inside the family will be applied when children are away from the family. This episode describes what you can do to organize your family to ensure that your children will internalize and apply the good things you teach them. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E8: Be a Strategic Parent
When you become a parent, you have a choice. You can simply try to cope with all the new demands you face, which is necessary, or you can develop a strategic plan for your children and your family. In this episode, learn how to strategically use the resources in your family to promote growth in your children and more satisfaction for yourself. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E7: Be an Intentional Parent
It can be very easy when your family is young to get so preoccupied with the demands on your time that you unwittingly become parents who are busy reacting and putting out fires more than you are leading. In this episode, learn how to be an intentional parent and organize your family's work, rules, and relationships to produce the outcomes you want. This can make parenting easier and more engaging for you and more clear and effective for your children. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E6: How to Create Change
Some people still think that leadership is not important and all parents need to do is just manage a few details of family life. If you believe this, you are willing to rely only on biological aging to create change. And if that is the only tool you rely on, you are missing many opportunities to prepare your children for success. In this episode, learn the six steps of promoting change in yourself, your children as individuals, and your family. Using these tools will give you confidence that you can achieve more of what you hope for. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E5: Impact Practices That Motivate Children to Follow
One of the most vital questions in parenting and leadership is how leaders (or parents) can motivate children to participate and follow. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby outlines ten impact parenting practices you can use right away to help you motivate your children to join with you in promoting their growth and building a strong and healthy family. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E4: Turn Your Family Into a Learning Lab, Part 2
Turning your family into a learning lab will do great things for your family. First, it will be more fun and engaging for you as a parent, and second, you can learn how to promote character development and healthy gender identities, improve your children's abilities to learn, teach emotional self-reliance, and prepare your children for the world of work they will face. Making your family a learning lab is worth the effort. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of parenting resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E3: Turn Your Family Into a Learning Lab
Learn how to organize your family so you can adapt better to individual children and also better provide opportunities for them to learn and grow. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E2: Make Sure Your Children Know That You Know Them
Learning to more accurately observe and understand your children in five developmental areas can help you better understand what your children are growing toward and how you can help them. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby describes a developmental perspective in these five important areas of children's growth. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
Parent Leadership for 21st-Century Children E1: A New Form of Leadership
The parenting ideas we have traditionally believed in might not be as effective anymore because our children are facing some situations we have not experienced and are therefore vulnerable to influence we do not want. In this episode, listen to a review of several different types of parents and also learn what is needed for parenting today. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E9: Rearing Children with Healthy Relationships
In this episode, Dr. Scoresby shares how you can organize your family and use it to create happy and lasting relationships with your children. This makes rearing them more enjoyable, and it prepares them to have successful relationships with other people. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E8: Marriage Traps That Prevent Happiness
In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about destructive patterns couples can get into that may seem harmless because they seem natural, but they can catch one or both people in an unproductive cycle of behavior. He talks about how these behaviors can prevent happiness and then explains how to avoid these traps. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E7: The Marriage Partnership
While marriage is a partnership, it's a different kind of partnership than any other relationship. This is because the tasks married people share are among the most significant of our lives. How we participate in this partnership matters a lot. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E6: The Most Exceptional Form of Friendship
Much of who we are is influenced by the kinds of attachments we have with others. You can find more lifelong happiness and fulfillment when you go beyond just social confidence and develop good friendship skills to form lasting relationships. These kinds of friendships will help you overcome disappointment, adapt to change, and help you make necessary changes to improve yourself. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E5: Practical Solutions to the Most Common Marriage Problems
Sometimes problems in a marriage aren't a sign that the relationship is failing. Sometimes problems mean that people care a lot but just need good ways to solve these problems. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about patterns of conflict and solutions for some of the most common problems in marriage. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E4: It Is Impossible to NOT Communicate
In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about why communication is an essential part of human relationships, types of communication to avoid, and the kind of communication found in healthy relationships. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E3: Finding More Love and Happiness Than You Can Imagine
Dr. Scoresby talks about how it is possible to learn about and get better at loving and feeling loved. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E2: The Bridge Builders
In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about how two people build bridges when they create a new relationship, and often these are the same skills used when a relationship faces challenges. Find ways to build bridges through experiences or exchanges of behavior that solidify the relationship for both people and make your relationships healthier and happier. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
What Makes Marriages Work E1: Five Qualities of a Fabulous Relationship
Many people don't know what makes a quality relationship anymore—let alone how to create and maintain one. Dr. Scoresby presents 15 qualities that make a relationship last and make it rewarding along the way. He also discusses what research says are the five make-or-break factors in relationship success and satisfaction, and these can apply to marriage, family, and work relationships. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and FirstAnswers.com to find tons of relationship resources.
21st-Century Children E23: Building Social Confidence and Self-Esteem, Part 7
Excellent research has been done to find what helps build social confidence and self-esteem. In this episode, learn how promoting delay of gratification in your children will help them be confident in social situations and feel positive about themselves. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and other resources. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find a free mini course ebook on Emotional Resilience and Self-Reliance and many more resources.
21st-Century Children E22: Building Social Confidence and Self-Esteem, Part 6
Research showing how to build confidence and self-esteem includes the valuable role of emotions—and not just positive emotions. Learn how to become a good emotion coach for your children and for your friends, and improve your relationships and build social confidence for yourself and your children. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and other resources. On FirstAnswers.com, you can also find a free mini course ebook on Emotional Resilience and Self-Reliance and a full course that includes a section on emotion coaching.
Uniting E3: What Happens When People Learn Together
Sometimes even when we know something is valuable, we still don't do it. This sometimes happens with marshaling the unity of peers in order to promote achievement in schools and in life. Learn what some schools did to magnify achievement for their students. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and other resources.
Uniting E2: The Amazing Benefits When Parents and Teachers Are United
The lack of unity among people and institutions often limits the experience and performance of those involved because valuable time is spent addressing the problems of divisiveness rather than focusing on their work or purpose. As it turns out, uniting well also produces many positive benefits, which can be seen when schools and parents unite themselves. In this episode, learn about these benefits and examples of how they were achieved by people who had the courage to unite. Visit mattersmostmedia.org to find more about the podcast and other resources.