How does understanding strengths improve family relationships? Why should we be more intentional about teaching to our child’s strengths? Understanding your child’s talents are recurring and consistent patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior will help you teach them how to process the world around them.
Four Talent Themes
Relating talents
Impacting talents
Striving talents
Thinking talents
Points to Ponder
Strengths need to be discovered and developed.
Weakness need to be understood and managed.
You and your child will do less comparing and more celebrating.
How does understanding strengths improve family relationships? Why should we be more intentional about teaching our children to use their strengths? Understanding that your child’s talents are recurring and consistent patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior will help you teach them how to process the world around them.
Four Talent Themes
Relating talents
Impacting talents
Striving talents
Thinking talents
Points to Ponder
Strengths need to be discovered and developed.
Weakness need to be understood and managed.
You and your child will do less comparing and more celebrating.
Does your child wonder about their world? Is there a vision for your family that your child can hold onto? Sally Clarkson and I discuss how to make your family thrive by awakening wonder in your home.
About Sally Clarkson
Sally Clarkson is a best-selling author, world-renowned speaker, and beloved figure who has dedicated her life to supporting and inspiring countless women to live the story God has for them to tell.
Sally has been married to her husband, Clay, for 40 years. Together, they founded and run Whole Heart Ministries, an international ministry seeking to support families in raising faithful, healthy, and loving children in an increasingly difficult culture.
Sally has four children, Sarah, Joel, Nathan, and Joy, each exceeding in their own fields as academics, authors, actors, musicians, filmmakers, and speakers.
Sally lives between the Mountains of Colorado and the rolling fields of England and can usually be found with a cup of tea in her hands.
Do your words roll off your tongue and land in a tender place of your child’s heart or do they wound their spirit? Words have power, so using them carefully will help you strengthen your relationship and reduce conflict. It’s not always what you say, but what others hear that matters. You can build relationships by monitoring your mouth!
Do you find yourself getting angry more than ever before? Did you know anger follows fear? While these are God-given emotions, they don’t have to control our reaction to others or God. Joël Malm author of Love Slows Down joins me to discuss how to respond to the patterns of anger in a Biblical way. Listen in for tips on how to respond to anger and disappointment.
Thoughts on How to Respond to Anger and Disappointment
Pattern of anger types
Consult anger
Reframe situation
“Anger isn’t a sin. Anger is a sign.”
Joël Malm
About Joël Malm
Joël Malm is the founder of Summit Leaders where he uses outdoor adventure and leadership coaching to help people find their calling and pursue a vision for their lives. His expeditions have taken him around the world to places like Mt. Kilimanjaro, Grand Canyon and Machu Picchu. He has traveled in over seventy countries on six continents and speaks three languages. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.S. in Counseling.
He speaks at churches, conferences, and corporate events around the country and is the author of Vision Map (Moody Press, 2014), Fully You, and Love Slows Down (Salem/Regnery, 2020) and Guided by Thunder.
He and his wife Emily and daughter Elise currently live in Texas.
