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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.

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.

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 import...

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 spirit...

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 p...

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.

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 th...

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 distra...

Learn nine new factors you can teach to promote children's faith in themselves. When you use these tools, children will know more about themselves and believe in themselves more. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

​​In order to successfully teach children to have faith in themselves, it will be necessary to recognize that we may have gotten it wrong sometimes and we need to adjust what we do. In this episode, learn what does not work and instead what can. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

We live in a time when the ideas about what children could become are blurred and less definite. This can be positive in a way because it provides more options, but there is a risk because it often leaves children more confused. Plus, we sometimes focus so much on what children become in their careers that we forget to give them what they need most for success—to have faith in themselves. In this...

This episode describes ten specific things you can do that will lead to the quiet miracles that demonstrate the worth and power of teaching your children to believe in God and themselves. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

Teaching children to feel faith brings inspiration, and with this inspiration comes several other remarkable but quiet miracles: peace of mind, organization, or more hope. In this episode, see how inspiration is connected to teaching faith to your children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

When parents decide to focus more on faith in their families, what does this look like? Learn simple ways to start the process of becoming a faith-emergent family, like telling stories of people who have exercised faith, as we discuss how manageable it can be, how you can adjust your approach according to the ages of your children, and how great the rewards are. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answ...

Humans are hardwired to have faith. It can be seen when children are young and begin to make choices, and it can grow into something really powerful if we know how to use it. Faith has many mental and emotional qualities to it, and the more we know about them, the better we can use faith to strengthen ourselves, our company, or our family. What does it feel like to have faith? What can you do to b...

Faith really impacts whether the mission of an organization, a leadership team, or a family is achieved. If people believe in the mission and focus their mental exertion on it, people tend to be more committed and more focused on producing it. There are risks organizations face when employees don't have faith in the mission, like low employee morale, and you can see these risks in a family setting...

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...

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' te...

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.