Proven Strategies to Help Your Children Establish Healthy Boundaries With Your Kids (Part 1 of 2)
6/23/202627 min
Dr. John Townsend shares practical tips for parents struggling to set boundaries with their children. He’ll provide insights into relatable situations spanning every stage of the parenting journey, from teaching unruly toddlers to dealing with adult children who still live at home. Hear his advice for teaching kids to take responsibility and grow into healthy adults.
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First 90 secondsJohn Townsend· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] If you get frustrated, go take a walk, go pray, go do something with your spouse. Don't do that with a child. Emotional consequences are not healthy.
John Fuller· Host0:11
That's Dr. John Townsend, and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. He's gonna help you set boundaries with your children. I'm John Fuller.
Jim Daly· Host0:20
John, I'm looking forward to this. I mean, my boys are now in their 20s, but this is the kind of information I wish I would have understood and digested with Gene to be able to do this better.
John Fuller· Host0:31
Mm.
Jim Daly· Host0:31
I mean, we understood the concepts, but we didn't slow down to really apply them as best as we could. And for that reason, you know, we wanna make sure you're equipped as a parent of younger children to be able to, uh, apply these boundaries because the outcomes are so good, and children feel more confident, more secure, even though it takes a little bit of, um, what's the right word, discipline- Mm ... to be able to apply these as a parent. But it's gonna be great content.
John Fuller· Host0:59
Yeah, and Dr. John Townsend is a speaker and bestselling author, and we're covering a book he co-wrote with Dr. Henry Cloud. It's called Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children, and we'll encourage you to get a copy of that.
Jim Daly· Host1:13
Yeah, it's so good. Welcome. Good to have you back, John.
John Townsend· Guest1:16
Great to be here.
Jim Daly· Host1:17
What, what are some of those obstacles that parents run into when they're setting boundaries?
John Townsend· Guest1:23
Well, there's two ways to look at the obstacles. First is things that, um, kids do to oppose boundaries, that they don't like them at first.