Focus on the Family with Jim Daly Best of 2025: Transform Your Family with These 5 Vital Traits (Part 2 of 2)
Dec 5, 2025
Dr. Gary Chapman, an author and Christian counselor renowned for the Five Love Languages, shares insights for creating a vibrant family. He emphasizes five vital traits that foster a healthy home, advocating for a balance of words and actions in parenting. Through personal anecdotes, he illustrates how love should underpin discipline and responsibilities. Chapman also defines loving husbandry, urging men to lead with partnership and communication while modeling values. Families are encouraged to assess and improve these traits together.
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Focus On The Real Thing
- Healthy families focus on the real example rather than studying dysfunction.
- Rediscovering biblical family traits helps spot and correct counterfeits in family life.
Teach With Words And Actions
- Use both actions and words when training children; they must match.
- Combine demonstration with clear verbal instruction to teach lasting behavior.
Skid Row Wake-Up Trip
- E.V. Hill's mother quietly showed consequences after he got drunk, then exposed him to Skid Row reality.
- The experience broke his pattern and he never drank again.
