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er and even do things that are harmful to the child. If you attack her or try to place her on the defensive, you could even make things tougher for your daughter. Apart from what you can accomplish with your wife through negotiation and personal influence, then, your hands are tied. There is, however, so much that you can do directly with your daughter, even though you don’t have custody over her. Work hard on that relationship. Be there for her when she needs you. Give her the best of your love and attention when she visits. At 12 years of age, she is at the most vulnerable time of her life and needs a father who thinks she is very special. You can have a profound influence on her if you demonstrate your love and concern consistently during this difficult period of her life. Remember, too, that the present situation may be temporary. Teenagers are given greater latitude in deciding which parent they want to live with. By your daughter’s choice, you might have custody of her in a year or two. Until then, all you can do is the best you can do. I pray that it will be enough. Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, P.O. Box 444, Colorado Springs, CO. 80903; or www.family.org. Questions and answers are excerpted from “The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House.
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saved up stuff going to someone else. One of the saddest documentaries I have ever seen on TV was one about the wealthy, Woody Allen once said, “I lonely widows in Florida. It know everyone dies, but I am seems that their husbands had still hoping an exception will obsessively and compulsively be made in my case.” Like all worked their whole lives, tryhumor, there is a bit of truth in ing to get to that magic day when they could that line. It seems that retire and “enjoy the possibility of our own death is some- E NCOURAGING life,” only to die of W ORDS an unforeseen heart thing that has to be attack right before forced out into our they got there. consciousness. I am reminded of When we are a joke I once heard healthy and especialabout two old ladies ly when we are standing at the casyoung, our own death ket of an extremely is merely a concept. It wealthy old lady takes a major illness friend who had just or surviving a tragic J. R ONALD passed away. One accident to bring the woman whispered reality of our own K NOTT to the other, “How death home to us. much money do you Until that point we proceed as if we were going to think she left?” The other once live forever, accumulating and whispered back, “All of it, I saving until the day when we would guess!” Jesus teaches us that money, can say to ourselves, “now that I have enough stored up I can while being a necessary thing finally rest, eat, drink and be in life, is unreliable for real merry.” Then “bam” a sudden security. Thieves can steal it, heart attack or fatal accident we can lose it, it can create disand it’s over, with all that tance between ourselves and You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have repared, to whom will they belong? — LUKE 12
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others, but most importantly, we can’t take it with us when we die. Better, he teaches, not to obsess about storing up material treasures for ourselves that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to strive to be rich in the things that matter to God. It is important to understand here that Jesus was not saying money is evil, but rather that all-consuming love and trust of money is the root of evil. The love and trust of money, the obsessive pursuit of material possessions, puts relationships with others and God way down at the bottom of the list. When “making a living” becomes more important than “living,” our happiness is on a slippery slope. What is the point of obsessively driving ourselves to “have more,” if it ruins our health, destroys our marriages and strains our friendships. What is the point of “gaining the whole world,” if it drives a wedge between ourselves and our neighbors, makes us intolerably irritable to be around and turns our children into resentful strangers in their own homes?
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I wish there were an easier, QUESTION: I’ve heard that we forget more than 80 percent more efficient process for shapof what we learn. When you ing human minds than the consider the cost of getting an slow and painful experience of education, I wonder why we education. But until a “learnput all that effort into examina- ing pill” is developed, the oldtions, textbooks, homework fashioned approach will have and years spent in boring to do. classrooms. Is education really QUESTION: My former worth what we invest in it? DR. DOBSON: In fact, it is. wife and I were married for 13 There are many valid reasons years before we divorced two for learning, even if forgetting years ago. She has since remarried and has custody of our 12will take its usual toll. First, one of the important year-old daughter. Recently, I’ve learned that functions of the learning process is the self-discipline my ex-wife is saying things to our daughter that I and self-control that feel are damaging to it fosters. Good stuF OCUS ON her spirit. She fredents learn to folTHE FAMILY quently blames her directions, low weight problem, carry out assignaddiction smoking ments and channel and financial woes on their mental faculour daughter (“I ties. wouldn’t be in this Second, even if mess if it weren’t for the facts and conyou”). can’t be cepts She also has no recalled, the indiJ AMES respect for our daughvidual knows they D OBSON ter’s boundaries, and exist and where to routinely confiscates find them. He or cash gifts that are she can retrieve the received for birthday or information if needed. Third, old learning makes Christmas presents. Since I am no longer recognew learning easier. Each mental exercise gives us more asso- nized as the primary careciative cues with which to link provider, I am somewhat hesifuture ideas and concepts, and tant to raise objections. Still, she is my daughter, we are changed for having been through the process of and it pains me to see her subjected to this kind of abuse. learning. Fourth, we don’t really for- Should I step in and make get everything that is beyond things right? DR. DOBSON: I’m sure the reach of our memories. The information is stored in the what you are witnessing is brain and will return to con- extremely distressing, and I sciousness when properly wish there were legal remedies to help you protect your stimulated. And fifth, we are shaped by daughter. Within certain limits, howthe influence of intelligent and charismatic people who taught ever, your ex-wife is permitted by the court to be a bad mothus.
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