Have you ever wished your
child came with a user's guide?
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Have you ever wondered how to
motivate them to do their best?
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I am sure we are all
hoping to raise healthy, happy,
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well-adjusted children. But
it can seem like an overwhelming
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challenge for parents today.
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The changing family structure,
work pressures, technology,
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and social influences are
among a host of other problems
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that are leaving parents
stressed out and worried about
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the future of their children.
Is it possible among all the
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turmoil that happens around
us to have a truly happy family?
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And if it was, would you
like to know the secrets of a
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happy family, a family that
enjoyed spending time together
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and where there was
love, trust, and respect.
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Well, join me, Gary Kent
as we meet with a world-renown
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doctor who has uncovered
important research on this topic
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his information may just
change your life of your family.
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It has been said that
families are the glue that holds
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society together.
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Being a part of a family gives
us a sense of identity and worth
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and helps to shape us
into the person we are destined
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to become. Knowing that
someone loves us and always has
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our back whether we are wildly
successful or struggling just
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to put one foot in
front of the other.
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Being loved unconditionally
is one of the most desirable
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benefits of
being part of a family.
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But our world is changing
very fast, the evening time
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that used to be spent conversing
with mom and dad at the table
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about the day's events, is now
spent largely in front of the
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television. At least 50% of
the families are breaking up
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and even if a family stays
together, or forms a blended
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family in a new relationship,
many of them are disconnected.
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Spending more time on
their devices and interacting on
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social media than they
do with the people that live
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right beside them. So what
are the secrets of having a
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happy family? Well, join
me as we discuss families with
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Dr. Neil Nedley, a medical
doctor who has uncovered some
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fascinating research that
shows the lifestyle and habits
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of happy families.
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Dr. Nedley, welcome
to our program today.
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What does your research
show about happy families?
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Well, a happy family has to
start out with a happy marriage
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and the husband/wife
relation- ship if its trusting,
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if its loving, if there are
definite positives and strengths
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are combined in
regards to roles and functions,
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that is the set-up
for a very happy family.
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And then we can talk about
the studies in regards to good
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relationships with children and
how important that is as well.
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How important are
families to society?
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Families to society are
really the basis of a successful
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productive society. If we
have very happy, productive,
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functional families, we are
going to have great societies.
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And this is not only
based on research but many great
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individuals over
time have recognized this.
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I mean Supreme Court
justices, Presidents and others
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have talked about this... we
kind of ignore family in regards
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to politics and those sorts
of things but it is a crucial
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element and If we are going
to have successful government,
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even the foundation of our
government is happy functional
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families. How important
are happy families to children?
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Happy families are crucial
for children's intellectual and
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emotional development. And
when there is trust in the home,
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when there is safety in the
home, when the children know
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that meals are going
to be served on time,
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that they are going
to be taken care of,
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that they don't have to worry
about where their next meal
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is going to come from or
if they are going to have good
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authoritative parents
when they wake up and live in a
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structured environment,
these are all crucial for the
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developing children's
mind. And it turns out
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it's not so much the comradery,
comradery is important
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but it turns out it's a loving
authoritative parent/child
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relationship
that works the best.
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And so, yes, we want to play
with our kids, we want to have
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that nice trusting, pleasant
environment where we can get
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down and be lateral with
our kids, but sometimes there is
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over-emphasis on that and
not enough emphasis on what
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authoritative loving parents
look like and that means that
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there is role distinctions,
that there is authority,
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there is family government and
that produces great function.
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There is great research
showing that happy families are
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very connected to physical and
emotional well-being of children
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not only during their childhood,
but actually way later into
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their adulthood.
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There was a study for instance
by Harvard, its often quoted,
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it's called:
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and it actually just looked
at a few simple questions,
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this was questioning adults
now about their childhood.
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But they found out that:
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So they'll have lived a
very happy, healthy life both
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emotionally and physically.
Now there is one if four
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there still going to have
issues even though they do have
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a good relationship with
mom and dad. But if they have
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a good relationship with
just one of them, 50% chance...
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You can flip a coin that
they're a serious illness.
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Either a serious mental illness
or a serious Physical illness
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by age 50. And if they now don't
have a good relationship with
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either mom or dad, it's now
90% chance physical or emotional
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illness, significant
by age 50. So you can see:
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just on the basis on how
good a relationship you have had
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with your mom and dad.
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And so that of course goes
both ways, we want mom and dads
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to foster those good
relationships but it's also
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very important for children
to recognize that these are
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my parents, they love me,
they.. I need to have trust.
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that they're recommending that
I do things that are actually
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best for me and their
accountability is actually
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for my own good. If they
develop that trust relationship
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there's going to be a bond
that forms there and it's gonna
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help them physically and
mentally really for the rest of
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their life. What can fathers
do to get more involved with
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their children? Well, its
extremely important for fathers
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to be involved in their
children, in other words,
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we want to know what
they are taking in school,
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how well they are doing in
school, what their strengths
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and weaknesses are, how
we can guide them forward
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in regard to those weaknesses
in a loving yet accountable way.
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But one of the most primary
things that fathers can do
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to be involved with their
children is to be involved
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with a loving spouse that
will help give them access
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and good access
to those children.
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It turns out if you're not
getting along with the mother
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of those children, chances
are, you are not really involved
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to the extent that you
should be in those children.
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And if mother doesn't
trust father, mother is going to
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try to limit access for you.
Mother doesn't often recognize
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the problems of that because
she's thinking this guy's not
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trustworthy, I don't want
him to be influencing our kids.
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There's lots of bad
things that happen that we just
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talked about you know.
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All of those things. so when
we think we are protecting our
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children by keeping
them away from their father,
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we're actually not, unless
the father truly is a bad man.
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If he is a criminal, if he is
abusive, those type of things,
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yes, we need to protect that
but then we may need to find
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someone else that could
take that loving, authoritative
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father role. And so, it's
important for fathers to have
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the access that they need to
make their children successful.
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Sometimes, motherhood is just
as important, I don't want to
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mention that, that it is some-
how inferior. No, motherhood,
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we can't say enough importance
in regards to this loving mother
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as well. But often
we think that's enough,
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If they've got a loving mother,
they don't need these men
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in their life. Not true.
The research is very clear
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that they need a good loving,
authoritative father figure
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in their life in order to come
out balanced, emotionally stable
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and able to
handle tough situations.
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Well, I can tell you as
far as loving, authoritative
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two biological parent homes
that are raised from 0 to 18,
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that's the ideal functional
homes is now down to about 20%
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in the western society.
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So that means that only
20% of our daughters and sons
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are being raised with the full
advantage of a great family.
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And that means there are
a lot of dysfunctional homes
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and hurting home out there
and that takes up the other 80%
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and what we want to recognize
too, some people might have
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gotten discouraged over the fact
that if you don't have a good
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relationship with your
mother and father, 90% chance
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you are going to have a
serious disease by the age 50
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that's true. And we might
talk about the reverse end,
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there's 10% that
still didn't have disease.
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What about those 10%?
Those 10% actually had good
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replacement figures that
were trusting in their life.
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They were able to overcome
the obstacles of a dysfunctional
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family by paying attention
to their own physical health,
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their own emotional health
and well-being and making sure
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they have the right
trusting mentors involved
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that can help develop them
into very successful people.
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And so, if you don't
have a good mom or dad,
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or if your husband and the
father of your own children
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was in jail somewhere and
can't be available at all...
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It's important, this is
where even the importance
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of where church comes
in. When you have a loving
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authoritative pastor or a
youth pastor, or someone in the
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Sunday School or whatever
that can help mentor these kids
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in the right direction,
good teachers, good educators,
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that are more than just doing
their job as far as educating.
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But actually providing
the good empathy and warmth.
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That sort of thing can
help the other 80% to be able to
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mitigate against all these
increase risks they're under
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by not having a
good two parent home.
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Dr. Nedley, do you have
any advice for us regarding
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resolving conflict in families?
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I think it's very
important to resolve conflicts
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in families, that we look at
the mental health of the father
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and mother, very often problems
in a home result from mental
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health issues in regards
to one or both of the parents.
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And this is why in our program
of course we're dealing with
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families but our programs are
centered primarily on Depression
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and Anxiety Recovery and the
parents who come to our program
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say this is the best Marriage
Enrichment program I've ever
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been through. We're not really
addressing the marriage so much,
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yes, we are addressing some
of the aspects of the marriage
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but we're doing things
to get them bio-chemically
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and also thinking-wise
to have a balanced mind.
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And once you have a balanced
mind, it's a whole lot easier
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to work out your differences.
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And actually it becomes far
more simple than we might think.
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Another aspect of resolving
conflicts is the home is mom
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and dad have to develop their
ability to manage their emotions
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and self-control. Lack of self-
control causes problems in the
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family. Particularly
when it is mom or dad.
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If we are having problems
of self-control of our kids,
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we need to recognize that
often that starts from above.
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And how can we be managing
the lack of control of our kids
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when we don't have it ourselves.
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And so this is why emotional
wellness and the ability to
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manage our emotions...Improving
the frontal lobe, where we can
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have more empathy for our
children and then recognizing
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the vital aspect that
parent- hood will bring
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to our children's successful
life. That means it is well-
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worth resolving any conflicts
for the benefit of our own
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children. And of course,
it will benefit our own lives.
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When we have good
relationships with our spouse
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and with our kids...I mean that
is something that is going to
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pay dividends a
million-fold as time goes on.
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And so, do what it takes,
don't be self-centered and say
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I'm just pulling out of
here because I want to do this
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and that for me and
they're getting in the way of my
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happiness. You need to recognize
that short-term happiness
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and that is long-term problems.
You think you are going to be
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better-off, you're not
going to be better off.
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It's better to resolve those
conflicts and do what it takes
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to get your own brain
and the brain of your spouse
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functioning optimally.
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What can a dysfunctional
family do to become a functional
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family? Well that's a great
question, first of all what is
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a dysfunctional
family. A dysfunctional family,
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there's a lot of signs of it
but that's when meals are not
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served on time. That's
when there's not food or
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transportation, clothing issues,
and schedules are all over
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the map, it's kind of everyone
for themselves in the home.
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That's the sign of a
dysfunctional family.
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And kids need structure and
if they are not getting regular
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structure, their
schedules are going to actually
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adversely
affect their own brain.
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Also, who's in
charge in the household?
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Are the kids
actually the ones in charge?
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That is a sign of a
dysfunctional family.
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And yes, they are going
to try to exert themselves
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to be in charge, they think
they are on a lateral level
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of their parents, but they
need to learn in loving ways
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that they're not. Their
parents are trustworthy but yet
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the parents are the ones
in charge of the household.
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And don't let the kids
rule per se. We can have them
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in family government, we
can have them involved in even
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deciding what their punishments
might be...This doesn't mean
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we become violent in the house-
hold and have to do spankings
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and things like that. There's
hundreds of other ways that we
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can discipline kids beside that
sort of thing. But we need to
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actually decide alright,
when these rules are broken,
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how is this going to be
dealt with and all of that...
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What I've noticed is my
own kids sometimes come up with
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punishments that are far more
worse than what I would have
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come up with and I have to
try to soften it up because
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on the front end, they
want to have some accountability
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too. And so when we involve
our kids in family government,
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but the parents are still the
ultimate authority in the home,
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that is a sign of a functional
family. An outburst of temper
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tantrums, all those
things get a whole lot better.
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There might be a first
when we exert our authority
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if we haven't been
exerting it the right way before
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but it will be well worth
lasting through that and still
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making sure that the parents
are in charge of the household.
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So, if you notice that
your family is dysfunctional,
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don't give up, dysfunctional
families can become functional
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families. And by the way
functional families can become
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dysfunctional
families too. We have to act...
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If we've got a functional
family, it takes some work
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to maintain that, particularly
the way the functional family
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become dysfunctional is
when one of the parents starts
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getting addicted to something.
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That's going to
produce a dysfunctional family.
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But what can happen when
you have a dysfunctional family?
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How can you get
it functional again?
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That's when you need to have
a family council meeting and say
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you know what? We have
a dysfunctional family,
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what can we do to get
this functional again?
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What can we do to have enough
proper planning, to have meals
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to be a family event and we're
eating together and it's being
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served on time. What can we
do as a group to come together
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and have this happen?
What can we do to make sure the
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transportation to school
is on time? What can we do
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to make sure that we're
including the spiritual part
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in our life? And we're
having some meaning and purpose
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in our household and then
if one of the parents does have
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an addiction, let's address
that. What can we do to have you
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overcome this addiction that is
inhibiting our ability to have a
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functional family in our
home. And go to a depression or
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anxiety recovery program
locally. Do the things that
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are necessary so that the mental
health of the parents can be
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of such that they can
institute a functional family.
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And dysfunctional families can
turn into functional families
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within a matter of
a few days to weeks.
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But we have to be intentional
on working on it and it is
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well worth the effort from all
the research I presented here
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today. What's EQ got
to do with happy families?
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Emotional intelligence does have
a vital role to play in happy
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families. Emotional intelligence
is not only knowing our emotions
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but also the emotions of others.
So we need to understand when
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our kids are having outbursts,
what their thought are behind
00:19:56.62\00:20:00.83
those feelings that
are bringing it about.
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And actually instead of us
responding by escalating our own
00:20:02.83\00:20:06.84
lack of frustration on the
situation, to be able to manage
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our own emotions when our
kids are not managing theirs.
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That's another sign of a
dysfunctional family by the way
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when the kid's quit
managing their emotions,
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the parents also quit managing
theirs, that's a set-up for
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disaster. As so, we want to
still have the parents in charge
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of their emotions and also
to be able to properly read our
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kid's correctly. This is
one of the issues that have been
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talked about in regards to
when we have adopted parents
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for instance. Studies have shown
that adopted parents don't do
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quite as well and biological
parents. And it's not because
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they're not as
involved... Here's the problem,
00:20:50.88\00:20:54.55
because they don't
have the same genetics,
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they're not able to
as accurately mind read.
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Because they are thinking, if I
had that expression on my face,
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this is what I'd be thinking.
But when we have a different
00:21:04.29\00:21:07.50
genetic make-up, we actually
might be reading them wrong.
00:21:07.53\00:21:10.23
And so biological parents
are much more able to accurately
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mind-read their children.
In fact children are often
00:21:14.27\00:21:16.74
wondering, how did you know
that was what I was thinking?
00:21:16.77\00:21:18.94
They'll even deny it, I was not
thinking that, underneath they
00:21:18.97\00:21:22.11
are saying, boy dad knows
exactly what I am thinking.
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So that means we have to
be a little bit more patient,
00:21:24.85\00:21:29.98
we have to actually
ask some questions...
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What are you thinking?
Why was it that you did this?
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What's going on in your head?
And help them to be able to
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soften their irrational thoughts
because when we have irrational
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thoughts, bad emotions come
about. We have rational thoughts
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it's much more balanced.
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.07
And so we can help our own kids
recognize the connection between
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thoughts and emotions and when
we're emotionally intelligent,
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we're set up to produce and
guide emotional intelligence
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of our children to be enhanced.
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Dr. Nedley, do you have a
special message to families
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today? The message for families
today is to lets with pride
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enjoy, embrace our families.
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You know, we start out
in this world with families,
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and when we leave this
world, who's going to be there?
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is family and in
between is also very important.
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Let's love and embrace
our spouses lets support them,
00:22:35.72\00:22:41.49
let's love and embrace our
children, let's not subject
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or give up our role of
authority, loving authority
00:22:45.93\00:22:49.63
over our children. There are
lots of pressures for us to go
00:22:49.66\00:22:52.80
a different way but I can tell
you, it is well worth having
00:22:52.83\00:22:58.34
and embracing that loving
family unit that will actually
00:22:58.37\00:23:04.58
help us even spiritually as well
and by the way, the spiritual
00:23:04.61\00:23:08.12
part helps the loving families.
00:23:08.15\00:23:10.29
And so, being a part of a church
family can help us in regards to
00:23:10.32\00:23:17.66
growing our own families,
getting this overall meaning
00:23:17.69\00:23:21.76
and purpose of our families
achieving great good in this
00:23:21.80\00:23:25.77
world. Not just for their
own success but helping other
00:23:25.80\00:23:28.94
families, helping others
in need, teaching our children
00:23:28.97\00:23:32.44
to do those types of things.
When we live a selfless life
00:23:32.47\00:23:37.58
as parents prioritizing
our kids, we will not be
00:23:37.61\00:23:43.15
disappointed. Dr.
Nedley, thank you for joining us
00:23:43.18\00:23:46.25
on our program today and
for sharing such valuable
00:23:46.29\00:23:49.69
information with us. It's
been great being here Gary
00:23:49.72\00:23:53.03
thank you so much for having me.
00:23:53.06\00:23:54.40
Sometimes we feel overwhelmed
and inadequate with our role
00:23:54.43\00:24:00.50
as the parent. Sometimes we
are concerned that we haven't
00:24:00.54\00:24:04.31
quite been the ideal
parent we'd like to be
00:24:04.34\00:24:07.41
for our children. In fact,
the Bible is full of stories
00:24:07.44\00:24:11.65
of people who have
been less than perfect.
00:24:11.68\00:24:14.25
They made mistakes and
their families suffer and yet
00:24:14.28\00:24:18.65
when they gave their
inadequacies and insecurities
00:24:18.69\00:24:21.96
to God, He found ways
to mend their brokeness.
00:24:21.99\00:24:26.13
There's a story in the Bible
Book of I Kings 18 about how God
00:24:26.16\00:24:31.80
brought the children of
Israel back to being connected
00:24:31.83\00:24:35.74
with Him. God asked His
loyal friend Elijah to call a
00:24:35.77\00:24:39.67
gathering and to
provide a space for them to
00:24:39.71\00:24:42.21
re-connect with Him again.
00:24:42.24\00:24:44.41
Throughout the events of
the day, the people we led to
00:24:44.45\00:24:48.05
realize the futility of putting
worthless things in the place
00:24:48.08\00:24:53.02
of God. They came to realize
that God needed to be at the
00:24:53.05\00:24:58.19
center of their lives.
00:24:58.23\00:25:00.66
Notice in the story that
when the people gathered around
00:25:14.34\00:25:17.78
the altar to pray to God,
it automatically brought them
00:25:17.81\00:25:21.88
closer to each other. That's
what connecting to God does,
00:25:21.92\00:25:26.42
it helps us repair damaged
relationships so that we can
00:25:26.45\00:25:30.43
live in harmony.
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