Hi and

I am a mom struggling well podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective.

Y'all I am not proud of it but I spent far too long waiting for my daily

irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. And I'm thinking the struggles are just going

to keep coming so I might as well get a new plan. God promises if we

persevere through our daily struggles our character will be built and will end up

with a hope that doesn't disappoint and I don't know about you but my hardest days happen when I've lost sight of that hope.

So if that's your story too, join me each week as I interview someone who is passed from just struggling

to struggling well. Hey guys, Emily here.

I am bringing you an extra special unexpected episode because I found a resource

that is really fun and I've been meaning to tell you guys for a while but I've just been busy so now's the time.

Our pastor wrote a couple questions that he likes to ask his family every year.

The questions are for your children regarding the family to

gauge how your kids think that you're doing as a family unit and you as a parent specifically.

Now, our kids are not the boss of us but it gives us insight and our

job as parents is so important. I mean supremely important we should want to do it well.

This kind of holds up a mirror in front of us and lets us know this is their

perception of what's happening. Any of us who have ever been in a relationship can understand

that the way we think things are going and the way they actually are going can be very different.

If you've ever been in a cross-cultural situation, again, perceptions are all across the board.

So the same can happen in your very own family.

My kids are a mystery to me. I look at them

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