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First Answers
by Dr. A. Lynn Scoresby
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 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 families need leadership. Learn more about the consequences when families do not have good leadership and what parents can do to apply it...
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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. Signs that cooperation is dwindling include the rise in bullying, feelings of loneliness, and the number of children isolating themselves on...
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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 screentime or fear of failure or even overscheduling and fear of boredom. Children may be missing out on developing much-needed learning…
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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 weigh the costs of being away from their children for so many hours, how much downtime children actually have, and whether the outcomes…
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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 types and how they might show up and what parents can do to calm the anxiety and find solutions. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers…
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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 relatively new to many parents, they might not know what to do about it, which often causes the anxiety to spread to other areas. Learn…
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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 their relationships. One challenge is that many trends in our culture seem to encourage entitlement, so modern parents need to be especially...
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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 relationships for a long time. Families should be safe and loving environments, and when they're not, it dramatically increases the impact of...
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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 physical violence. Violent behavior tends to be easily learned and can become part of the family environment, where it becomes an…
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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 prevalent, and it especially affects how children develop in many ways. We'll talk about many risks that anger poses and some causes…
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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 this episode, we talk about how such a lack can occur, the symptoms of it, and some solutions parents can use to teach more empathy and...
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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 prevent pornography use, learn how to talk about it when your children are exposed to it, and, if a child is addicted, learn what parents can...
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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 accessible and prevalent. Learn what increases the risks for children to be exposed to sexual information and to engage in early sexual...
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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 possible link between how children feel about themselves and family conflict. Learn about handling family conflict in a healthy way and the...
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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 increased anxiety and depression and concerns about self-worth. Learn more about some of the many risks and what parents can do to teach…
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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 solutions to help kids and families avoid the dangers or recover from use. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and…
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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 increase in children facing these challenges today, and it is a significant risk because gender is a core element to one's identity.…
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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 thinking skills, beliefs in false information, and abilities to be creative and think outside the box. Parents can learn how AI can be a risk...
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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 children, like AI and technology, falling birth rates, and declining community support. Children today are facing ideas, social behavior,...
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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, can contribute to people's willingness to marry and have children. See how to teach your children to examine their own faith, build more...
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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 themselves. When patience and faith are fused together, children are less reactive, more resistant to temptation, and more hopeful. Visit...
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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 spiritual education will be enriched. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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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 there's family conflict, scary events in the news, mistreatment, or mental or emotional challenges. This can make them feel like nothing...
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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 can lead to increased feelings of depression and anxiety, poor academic performance, and difficulty maintaining relationships. Learn how...
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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 faith is and how it can help. Learn how anxiety manifests itself, how the lack of faith is involved, and how you can use faith to help...
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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 people or a higher power for a framework and purpose for these beliefs, this is where we get bullying, sexism, racism, and other forms of...
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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 anxiety, vulnerability to depression, influence of friends, etc. Faith can help solve these problems, like believing there is another way to...
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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 and successful. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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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 stay with something a little longer than they expected. Soon, if this process is explained to them, they become committed to completing…
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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, 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....
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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, 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....
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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, 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....
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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 others and God, which leads to honesty, regulating thoughts so they are positive and loyal, and training feelings so they are focused on…
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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 from knowledge or reason but is usually strengthened when one's intellect, evidence, and reason are employed. Also, faith reveals or...
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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 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...
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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 religious life and everywhere else. See how faith can be taught and applied as we discuss 10 practical elements of faith. Visit...
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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 faith because confidence is related to a specific situation while faith is related to children's belief in themselves and their future....
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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 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...
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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 in themselves more. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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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 to adjust what we do. In this episode, learn what does not work and instead what can. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for...
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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 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...
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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 believe in God and themselves. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.
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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, or more hope. In this episode, see how inspiration is connected to teaching faith to your children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers...
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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 family, like telling stories of people who have exercised faith, as we discuss how manageable it can be, how you can adjust your approach...
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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 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...
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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 mental exertion on it, people tend to be more committed and more focused on producing it. There are risks organizations face when employees…
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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 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…
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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 who grow up with these traditional practices do not remain faithful for the rest of their lives. So what else matters? The family…
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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 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...
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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 when there are big consequences, knowing what is best matters a lot. Teaching your children to have faith will help you identify what is...
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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.
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