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First Answers
The First Answers podcast features Dr. A. Lynn Scoresby—experienced psychologist, executive coach, business and education consultant, father, and grandfather—talking about the first and best answers for 21st-century families so you can improve and have more fulfilling relationships. Topics range from marriage and parenting to ethics and character, stopping violence, and more.
Episodes
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E21: The Absence of Good Family Leadership, Part 3
Now it's time for the good things parents can do to lead happy and successful families. Learn what happens in most successful families where children are happy…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E20: The Absence of Good Family Leadership, Part 2
The things we do in our families—good or bad—tend to last. In this episode, we discuss the definitive qualities of families, such as how they change over time…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E19: The Absence of Good Family Leadership, Part 1
We're living in a time where many families are not intact, don't have a vision, and/or are not organized to promote the growth and development of children. But…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E18: An Unwillingness to Cooperate
Cooperation is another skill we're seeing less of in society today. More than just helping people, it's working together with others toward a common goal…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E17: A Lack of Curiosity and Creativity
Curiosity and creativity are vital skills for understanding our individual identities and learning about the world around us. Causes can vary between too much…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E16: Overscheduled Families
Families seem busier and busier these days with work or sports or other activities—sometimes out of need and sometimes by choice. Parents should carefully…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E15: Anxiety At Large
There are many types of anxiety children face today, and often parents misinterpret anxious behavior as misbehavior or disobedience. Learn about the different…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E14: Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is one of the most rapidly increasing emotional problems in childhood, and it has significant consequences for kids and families. Since it is…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E13: Entitlement
Another risk on the rise, entitlement can affect children personally and, if unchecked, will eventually affect how they view themselves, other people, and…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E12: Violence, Part 2
We continue our discussion about violence, specifically focusing on family violence and how it can influence children's ideas of safety, power, and healthy…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E11: Violence, Part 1
Violence exists in the world in many ways—and seems to be increasing. Bullying and ruining people's reputations, for example, occurs more and more along with…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E10: Anger
Anger can be a dangerous habit that can grow in intensity and spread to many areas of your life if it goes unchecked. It is a huge risk for families if…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E9: The Absence of Empathy
The lack of empathy in people is becoming a bigger problem today. There are many possible causes, like increased screen time and less in-person interaction. In…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E8: Sex and Pornography, Part 2
There are serious emotional and social risks for children who are exposed to or addicted to pornography. Learn how to teach about it in your family to help…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E7: Sex and Pornography, Part 1
Over the last few decades, cultural changes have made early sexual experiences for teenagers more common and acceptable, and sexual information is much more…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E6: Self-Worth and Family Conflict
Learn more about self-worth for kids, how it differs from self-esteem, how it's produced, and how parents can help kids feel more of it. Then we talk about a…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E5: Social Media
Parents need to take social media use more seriously. Average hours of daily use for teens is already too much and an amount that is most likely to lead to…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E4: Substance Abuse
Learn why substance abuse can be such a significant risk for children and teens, the conditions that make them more vulnerable to it, and some possible…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E3: Gender and Other Identity Issues
One of the most challenging issues today for children and parents is identity disorders, one of the most common being gender dysphoria. There has been a rapid…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E2: Artificial Intelligence
AI use is becoming more commonplace for adults and children. While it is sometimes useful, it can have a negative impact on overly reliant users' critical…
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Risks For 21st-Century Families E1: Introducing The New Series
What is happening to families and children in our modern world deserves more attention, so we started a new series focused on the current risks to families and…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E17: It Takes Faith To Marry And Have Children
A troubling social trend involves marriage and families. Marriage rates are dropping, and fewer children are being born. Faith, and not just religious faith…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E24: Connect Patience With Faith To Help Children Resist Temptation
Learn how to tie patience and faith together in order to help your children develop greater maturity and abilities to live a chaste life and believe in…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E23: A Spiritual Identity And Culture
Learn how to align your family with the good things of your church culture so that your children will learn and receive support from many good people and their…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E16: Faith Can Help You Cope With Turbulent Times
Children are born with a predisposition to see regularity and predictability, which makes them feel more secure, but the environment can cause turbulence when…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E15: Faith Can Help Solve Loneliness
Loneliness is a growing problem among children and teens. These feelings can be due to overly busy or inattentive parents or too much screen time. Loneliness…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E14: Faith Can Help Resolve Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the fastest growing mental and emotional issues for children in the US, so we may not be doing a good enough job teaching our children what…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E13: Faith Can Help With Objectification And Dehumanization
When someone fails to see another person as a fellow human with worth, it is due in part to a lack of faith. When someone doesn't believe in the value of all…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E12: Faith Can Help Solve Pornography Addiction
Faith—or the lack of it—can be found in the causes and solutions to pornography addiction. Almost always, pornography is connected to another problem: high…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E22: Faith In Fidelity, Part 3
You can teach your children to have faith in fidelity by using the experiences in your family. Learn how using these principles can help your children be happy…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E21: Faith In Fidelity, Part 2
Teaching children to have faith in fidelity can be accomplished in a series of small steps called "One More Thing," which helps them go a little further and…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E11: What Faith Feels Like, Part 3
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E10: What Faith Feels Like, Part 2
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E9: What Faith Feels Like, Part 1
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E8: The Practical Nature of Faith
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E19: Teaching Children To Have Faith In Themselves Is A Gift To Generations That Follow
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E7: Become A Faith-Emergent Family, Part 2
When parents are teaching their children about faith, they are asking their children to believe in things that are not certain. Since traditional religious…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E18: A New Look at Helping Children Have Faith In Themselves
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Children's Faith E17: The Dos and Don'ts of Teaching Children To Have Faith In Themselves
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E16: When Children Have Faith In Themselves, They Will Move Mountains
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E15: Ten Things You Can Teach That Will Bring Quiet Miracles To Your Family
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E14: Teaching Children To Have Faith Brings Quiet Miracles
Teaching children to feel faith brings inspiration, and with this inspiration comes several other remarkable but quiet miracles: peace of mind, organization…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E6: Become A Faith-Emergent Family, Part 1
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E5: Deeper Definitions Of Faith
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E4: Faith In The Team's Mission
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E3: Faith In Team Culture
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…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E2: Where Faith Can Begin
Many people think that engaging in traditional religious practices, like prayer or scripture study, is enough to produce faith in children, but many children…
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Faith Is More Than You Think E1: Faith Has More Reach
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…
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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
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…
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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E12: Teaching About Faith Prepares You For The Unexpected
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…
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E11: Teach Faith During Life's Important Moments, and Bring Inspiration to You and Your Children
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…
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E10: Learn More About Faith So You Are More Successful At Teaching It
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…
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E9: How To Help Children Grow Faith
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…
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E8: What Faith Accomplishes
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…
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E7: Take A Deep Dive Into Faith, And See How Powerful It Has Always Been
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…
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Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E6: What Happens to Parents When They Decide to Become a Faith-Emergent Family
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…
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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…