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First Answers

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.

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All Episodes

31:04

Risks For 21st-Century Families E6: Self-Worth and...

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2026/02/05

Learn more about self-worth for kids, how it differs from self-esteem, how it's produced, and how parents can help kids feel more of it. Then we talk about a possible link between how children feel about themselves and family conflict. Learn about handling family conflict in a healthy way and the types of conflict to avoid. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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20:38

Risks For 21st-Century Families E5: Social Media

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2026/01/20

Parents need to take social media use more seriously. Average hours of daily use for teens is already too much and an amount that is most likely to lead to increased anxiety and depression and concerns about self-worth. Learn more about some of the many risks and what parents can do to teach about it, regulate use, and promote healthy human connection. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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21:53

Risks For 21st-Century Families E4: Substance Abuse

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2025/12/31

Learn why substance abuse can be such a significant risk for children and teens, the conditions that make them more vulnerable to it, and some possible solutions to help kids and families avoid the dangers or recover from use. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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30:03

Risks For 21st-Century Families E3: Gender and Other...

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2025/12/16

One of the most challenging issues today for children and parents is identity disorders, one of the most common being gender dysphoria. There has been a rapid increase in children facing these challenges today, and it is a significant risk because gender is a core element to one's identity. Without as much societal support for healthy gender development as there was in the past, parents can learn to support their children's healthy identity development by reducing family conflict, communicating that

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18:03

Risks For 21st-Century Families E2: Artificial...

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2025/12/04

AI use is becoming more commonplace for adults and children. While it is sometimes useful, it can have a negative impact on overly reliant users' critical thinking skills, beliefs in false information, and abilities to be creative and think outside the box. Parents can learn how AI can be a risk and how to promote AI literacy, set clear boundaries with their children's use, and promote a general sense of online skepticism with their children. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century

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17:22

Risks For 21st-Century Families E1: Introducing The...

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2025/11/18

What is happening to families and children in our modern world deserves more attention, so we started a new series focused on the current risks to families and children, like AI and technology, falling birth rates, and declining community support. Children today are facing ideas, social behavior, and challenges that parents have never faced, so parents need to learn more and do more in order to address these challenges and help their kids navigate them successfully. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find

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24:11

Faith Is More Than You Think E17: It Takes Faith To...

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2025/10/20

A troubling social trend involves marriage and families. Marriage rates are dropping, and fewer children are being born. Faith, and not just religious faith, can contribute to people’s willingness to marry and have children. See how to teach your children to examine their own faith, build more faith, and learn to exercise it before these big life decisions. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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19:26

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E24:...

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2025/10/08

Learn how to tie patience and faith together in order to help your children develop greater maturity and abilities to live a chaste life and believe in themselves. When patience and faith are fused together, children are less reactive, more resistant to temptation, and more hopeful. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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15:36

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E23: A...

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2025/10/08

Learn how to align your family with the good things of your church culture so that your children will learn and receive support from many good people and their spiritual education will be enriched. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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13:49

Faith Is More Than You Think E16: Faith Can Help You...

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2025/09/29

Children are born with a predisposition to see regularity and predictability, which makes them feel more secure, but the environment can cause turbulence when there’s family conflict, scary events in the news, mistreatment, or mental or emotional challenges. This can make them feel like nothing lasts and there’s little hope. Learn how faith can give children something to focus on and feel that is different from the traumatic or turbulent things that are happening around them. Visit FirstAnswers.com

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14:17

Faith Is More Than You Think E15: Faith Can Help...

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2025/09/18

Loneliness is a growing problem among children and teens. These feelings can be due to overly busy or inattentive parents or too much screen time. Loneliness can lead to increased feelings of depression and anxiety, poor academic performance, and difficulty maintaining relationships. Learn how faith can address these issues to help you or your children feel better. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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24:53

Faith Is More Than You Think E14: Faith Can Help...

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2025/09/05

Anxiety is one of the fastest growing mental and emotional issues for children in the US, so we may not be doing a good enough job teaching our children what faith is and how it can help. Learn how anxiety manifests itself, how the lack of faith is involved, and how you can use faith to help children cope. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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26:44

Faith Is More Than You Think E13: Faith Can Help With...

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2025/08/04

When someone fails to see another person as a fellow human with worth, it is due in part to a lack of faith. When someone doesn't believe in the value of all people or a higher power for a framework and purpose for these beliefs, this is where we get bullying, sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination. In this episode, we talk about how to help kids see the whole social context for a situation—to see how their actions affect others and to understand relationships and how others might feel—so

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28:48

Faith Is More Than You Think E12: How Faith Can Help...

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2025/07/10

Faith—or the lack of it—can be found in the causes and solutions to pornography addiction. Almost always, pornography is connected to another problem: high anxiety, vulnerability to depression, influence of friends, etc. Faith can help solve these problems, like believing there is another way to manage your emotions and believing in yourself, which can then lead to a solution for pornography addiction. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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24:01

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E22: Faith...

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2025/07/07

You can teach your children to have faith in fidelity by using the experiences in your family. Learn how using these principles can help your children be happy and successful. Visit FirstAnswers.com to find answers for 21st-century parents and more about the podcast.

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21:45

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E21: Faith...

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2025/06/30

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.

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18:59

Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith...

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2025/06/20

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.

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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith...

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2025/06/20

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.

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Lighting The Fire Of Your Children's Faith E20: Faith...

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2025/06/20

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.

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30:26

Faith Is More Than You Think E11: What Faith Feels...

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2025/05/23

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

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