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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.

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E21: Faith In Fidelity, Part 2
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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 tasks and succeeding. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
06/20/2025

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. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
06/20/2025

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. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith In Fidelity, Part 1
06/20/2025

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. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E11: What Faith Feels Like, Part 3
05/23/2025

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 keeping one’s commitments. Faith also increases people’s mental and spiritual abilities to comprehend important principles of truth, and it is quantifiable and can be measured by its emotional intensity in order to comprehend it. We then discuss how to talk to kids when things don’t turn out ho...


Faith Is More Than You Think E10: What Faith Feels Like, Part 2
04/24/2025

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 excites what a person knows about himself by identifying and giving access to added abilities called spiritual gifts. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E9: What Faith Feels Like, Part 1
04/10/2025

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 experiencing faith. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E8: The Practical Nature of Faith
03/27/2025

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 FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E19: Teaching Children To Have Faith In Themselves Is A Gift To Generations That Follow
03/20/2025

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. Consider making a new effort to promote your children's faith in themselves, and watch them begin to see their futures as something achievable. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E7: Become A Faith-Emergent Family, Part 2
03/06/2025

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 steps of faith themselves? First, you have to build trust by avoiding harmful behaviors, remove distractions like excessive screen time, and then use your teachings to help them learn how to do hard things, which every person needs to know. Becoming a faith-emergent family will promote so many positive behaviors in...


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E18: A New Look at Helping Children Have Faith In Themselves
02/27/2025

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.


Lighting The Fire Of Children's Faith E17: The Dos and Don'ts of Teaching Children To Have Faith In Themselves
02/27/2025

​​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 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E16: When Children Have Faith In Themselves, They Will Move Mountains
02/27/2025

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 careers that we forget to give them what they need most for success—to have faith in themselves. In this episode, learn the foundation for teaching your children to believe in themselves. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the po...


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E15: Ten Things You Can Teach That Will Bring Quiet Miracles To Your Family
02/27/2025

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.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E14: Teaching Children To Have Faith Brings Quiet Miracles
02/26/2025

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 for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E6: Become A Faith-Emergent Family, Part 1
02/05/2025

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 according to the ages of your children, and how great the rewards are. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E5: Deeper Definitions Of Faith
01/28/2025

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 strengthen ourselves, our company, or our family. What does it feel like to have faith? What can you do to build more faith? What is its purpose in the first place? Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more...


Faith Is More Than You Think E4: Faith In The Team's Mission
01/16/2025

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 don’t have faith in the mission, like low employee morale, and you can see these risks in a family setting as well. So how do you create faith in the mission and make it last, and what do you do when people don’t have faith? Visit FirstAnswers.com to f...


Faith Is More Than You Think E3: Faith In Team Culture
12/17/2024

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 the culture of your team? Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E2: Where Faith Can Begin
11/26/2024

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 environment and how families are organized have a tremendous impact on how receptive children are to parents’ teaching. Learn why and what you can do in your family to help your children better receive what you teach. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Faith Is More Than You Think E1: Faith Has More Reach
11/19/2024

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 culture—and how faith is one of the first answers to the challenges people are facing today. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


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
10/22/2024

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 best in these uncertain times because faith is involved in virtually every possible solution. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E12: Teaching About Faith Prepares You For The Unexpected
10/15/2024

Every parent faces times when children bring unexpected experiences home. Teaching about faith successfully will help you prepare for those times so you don't overreact or focus on the wrong things. Besides, teaching children to have faith in themselves, in God, and in their culture prepares them and gives them strength to manage their own challenges. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E11: Teach Faith During Life's Important Moments, and Bring Inspiration to You and Your Children
09/16/2024

When parents are able to use the significant moments of their children's lives to teach faith, they bring together a child's experience, the interpretation of it, and knowledge of faith. Putting this together will be helped by the Lord who will send inspiration. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E10: Learn More About Faith So You Are More Successful At Teaching It
08/14/2024

When you decide to learn more about faith, it may amaze you to learn how much more there is to learn. And when you learn more, you will be able to see more different and interesting ways to teach it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E9: How To Help Children Grow Faith
08/08/2024

Growing children's faith usually requires much more than talking. Children will need to be receptive to what they hear, and parents can adjust their methods of teaching as needed. In this episode, you can see the need for thinking both about what you already do and how to create an environment where your children are more likely to receive and believe what you teach. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E8: What Faith Accomplishes
08/01/2024

Learning more about faith can lead to the discovery of its amazing qualities we don't often think about. In this episode, learn some of what faith accomplishes in our lives and how it originates. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E7: Take A Deep Dive Into Faith, And See How Powerful It Has Always Been
07/25/2024

Those who think you might want to do more with teaching your children about faith might discover that it offers more than most of us know, and then we realize it has always been so and we have neglected to use its great blessings for our families. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E6: What Happens to Parents When They Decide to Become a Faith-Emergent Family
07/16/2024

Deciding to give more emphasis to teaching children to be faithful appears to lead to five very positive conditions. In this episode, learn what many parents discovered about the power of doing more to teach children to develop faith and keep it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E5: Become a Faith-Emergent Family
06/28/2024

Even in the busyness of life, parents can make changes in their families when their children are involved. If you decide to become a faith-emergent family, this means you give more emphasis to teaching faith and organizing your family to ensure that your children will trust you and learn how to exercise freedom—not as an option but as an essential part of the recipe. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E4: Parent-Child Communication That Determines Whether Children Have Faith and Keep It
06/20/2024

Discover the types of parent-child communication that influence whether children are receptive to parents’ teachings, and see how ritualized forms of communication can either lead children to mistrust their parents or honor and learn from them. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E3: Discovering the Connections Between the Family and Children's Faith
06/13/2024

For many years, we thought of faith as an individual quality that develops within each person. But research has revealed that families influence children's faith in several different ways. This means that parents can actively teach children to develop faith and ensure that their faith works for them while they are children and when they are adults too. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E2: What Parents Don't Know About Teaching Faith
06/06/2024

When Dr. Scoresby began to ask what parents do or could do to teach their children about faith, he said he got a lot of strange looks and then was told by many parents that they read scriptures, pray, and attend church with their children. This is a great answer, but then he asked them if they had specific ideas about how parents could teach it. When met with uncertainty, he discovered that there are some things parents would like to know, so if you listen to this episode, you will begin to get an idea about what we...


Lighting the Fire of Your Children's Faith E1: Why You Should Light the Fire
05/29/2024

What would you say if someone asked what you thought was the one single thing we could do to help our families and our society? Lighting the fire of your children's faith is the one thing that will help them the most and help you create the type of family you would like. This episode will introduce you to what this series will bring to you and will help you get ready to learn some amazing things about teaching and increasing faith in many areas of life. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about...


A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E10: Helping Children Sort Out Confusion
05/02/2024

In this episode, learn how to resolve two risk conditions for healthy gender identity: emotional enmeshment and influence from the internet. Emotional enmeshment reduces freedom and creates anxiety. At the same time, ever-increasing access to the internet creates a perfect storm of confusion, but you can compensate for it. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

 


A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E9: What Parents Can Do And What They Should Not Do When It Comes to Gender
04/25/2024

Learn more about what you can do to avoid the errors that can lead to gender-related problems, and learn how to solve the extreme emotions that many consider to be a cause. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E8: Mutual Respect Early Improves Relationships Later
03/28/2024

We are often allowing children to learn negative words and hostile reactions to the other gender. As a result, both boys and girls often carry these ideas and feelings into their relationships later on. Now is the time for greater emphasis on respect rather than pursuing equity or equality. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.


A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E7: Succeeding in Relationships with the Other Sex
03/21/2024

It now appears that parents will need to prepare their 21st-century children to succeed with the other sex. In past generations, this seemed to be a foregone conclusion, that the forces of nature would motivate and make that possible, but divorce rates and declining rates of marriage suggest otherwise. In this episode, find out what is impacting our children negatively so you can adapt and help your children succeed in their relationships. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and answers for 21st-century parents.


A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E6: Three Experience Areas for Gender
03/07/2024

In this episode, learn how children form their inner core of knowledge about themselves, and learn about the family's role as a small community where children are influenced and how the social world around them can affect them. These experience areas will give you ideas about what you can do to promote healthy gender identities in your children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and answers for 21st-century parents.


A Parent's Guide to Gender Identity E5: How Gender Identity Forms
02/29/2024

In this episode, you can learn the process children go through developmentally to acquire their gender identity. Understanding this process will help you to also see how you can play a vital role in influencing your children's gender identity as male or female. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find more about the podcast and answers for 21st-century parents.