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If you can pray with and for your kids, protect your kids, and connect regularly with your kids, then when you teach them, they are ready to listen. Join cohosts Shannon Linder, Amy Johnson, and Zac Coyle as they discuss 10 things to teach their own children. Get some great ideas to do the same in your family!

Zac's Top Ten:

10 Things to Teach:

1. Teach identity (behavior follows identity) – loved children of God

2. Teach Jesus really is who He says He is

-everything else we worship consumes us

-authentic freedom makes us more alive – not less alive – the fruits of the Holy Spirit vs. addiction/attachment

3. Teach how to pray and how to have silence – use the Oratory! (or a good space wherever a family lives)

4. Teach how to encounter God: nature, prayer, sacraments, scripture, lived experience (virtues)

5. Teach discernment – consolation vs. desolation

-Fr. Mike Schmitz has a great 4m video on Youtube on this: is this a good door (moral)? Is this door open? Is this wise for me (requires self-

knowledge)? Do I want this door?

-discernment over friends and relationships

6. Teach God gives us vocation – has a plan for us that matters!

-vs. you can be anything - actually a scary reality for a child / overwhelming

7. Teach TOB – love must be free, total, faithful, fruitful. Otherwise, it is the opposite – using

-pornography is a great evil, hurting all involved in it, and children need to be taught that

8. Teach a rightly ordered life – God, family, work / others, play

9. Teach impulses should always be checked first – considered and connected (with family input) – then acted

10. Teach effects of sin: darkens intellect, disorders passions, weakens will

Teach by example more than by instruction – prayer, silence, service, generosity, patience, gentleness, etc.

Shannon's Top Ten:

1. Your identity lies in who you are, not what you do.

2. The Creator of the universe deeply knows you.

3. You are infinitely loved by God, and there is nothing you can do to change that.

4. Nurture your relationship with your Guardian Angel.

5. Invest in personal growth.

6. Stay close to the sacraments

7. Only Jesus can truly satisfy.

8. Live in gratitude.

9. Pay it forward.

10. True freedom is found in obedience.

Amy's Top Ten:

• God-family-friends: in that order
• Marriage: being on a team and putting marriage before kids. Happy marriage requires growing in faith both independently and together: foundation is in Jesus, job is to get each other to heaven.
• Kids: feel unconditionally loved, security in that: being together is our favorite thing.
• Vocation: not your job; the life God calls you to; we all have a universal call to holiness
• To whom much is given, much is expected; God has a plan and you need to use the gifts He has given you
• Habit of prayer; must be daily; pray all through the day; see Jesus with you all throughout the day
• Travel: make great memories, visit religious sites, always go to Mass; visited SO many churches
• Money is a tool; not what we strive for
• Spirituality is different for everyone, and all kinds are good: meet people where they are; see Jesus in everyone
• “What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?” Service to the poor and community. You can’t live in this world and not realize how people are suffering.