So something that I feel like Katie and I are constantly talking about is whether or not we can, one, push our children too hard.

And two, are we pushing our children too hard if you can indeed push them too hard?

And I think that, you know, the obvious answer is, of course, you can push your children too hard in a variety of directions, right?

You can push them too hard academically.

I think you can even push them too hard when it comes to their spiritual maturation,

you know, expecting maybe too much of them or requiring too much of them when it comes to

spiritual maturation. Then, of course, sports. And we all can picture the little league dad

or the gymnastics mom that's just devoting their life to their

child's success and maybe kind of imposing their own, you know, retrospective goals on their

children. And then there's musical parents. And we've been around a lot of these parents. I think

most parents are at one time or another. And you see it from a

grown person's perspective and you kind of in a foreboding way project the results of that.

You know, you say, oh, the children are going to rebel against their parents or they're going to

react against all the time they've put into this as a child and never want to do it. It's going to

take the joy out of the sport when they're older. It's going to take the joy out of music when they're older. And we all know from testimony that that has certainly been the case. However, on the flip side, I do think that our children oftentimes are wanting more than what we're ready to give them and that we can be the one

slowing them down. And so I do think that there is, you know, there are extremes to fall into

on both sides. And I think regardless of how hard you push your child, it's not so much the

quantity of hours you're requiring from them or the the the the the I guess the intensity in

which you're putting into a discipline I really do think it's a worldview and a perspective you're

giving them in the midst of all those things so we're going to talk about that today we're

going to share from our experiences how what it looked like growing up and and kind of what we

aim to do with our children.

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