Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk Healthy Habits for Your Children, Part 1
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Mar 23, 2026 Dr. Walt Larimore, family physician and author of The Highly Healthy Child, offers four-part guidance on child health. He explains a wheel metaphor of physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual wellbeing. Short stories and practical tips highlight parental roles, choosing clinicians, and addressing common concerns like vaccines and headaches.
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Fourfold Model Of Child Health
- True child health spans physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual domains, modeled in Luke 2:52 as growth in stature, wisdom, relationships with God and men.
- Walt Larimore explains these four wheels must work together or one flattened wheel can wreck overall health.
Daryl The Joyful Boy With Leukemia
- Walt Larimore met Daryl, a boy with terminal leukemia who was joyful, loved, and spiritually grounded despite severe physical illness.
- Larimore uses this story to show how emotional, relational, and spiritual health can compensate when physical health is failing.
Loss Of Generational Parenting Wisdom
- Parenting wisdom has historically been passed through extended family, but isolation has left new parents fearful and unprepared.
- Larimore and Dobson emphasize churches and communities can reclaim that role to teach parenting principles.
