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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 FirstA...

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 Fir...

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 21s...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Deciding to give more emphasis to teaching children to be faithful appears to lead to five very positive conditions. In this episode, learn what many parents discovered about the power of doing more to teach children to develop faith and keep it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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...

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.

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 21...

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...

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 a...

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 ab...

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.

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.

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 yo...

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 podcas...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...