Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Welcome to the last week in November and the last week of our parenting emphasis for the show.

Goodness, we've talked about so much this month,

and I hope it's helped some of my fellow parents. This week is really dedicated to my older

kid moms who over and over want to talk about the dreaded letting go and how to even do that.

Well, we will talk about that this week. I'll tell you everything I know, which is limited to

launching one off into college

and one right on his heels. But we'll get into some pretty vital parenting things this week,

I think, and I hope you won't miss a single show. So next month is going to be exciting,

and we have some big things to announce about this show and

also I'm going to look back at some things I learned in 2018 and share those as well but I'm

going to kickstart that a little early by telling you something I have learned in 2018 about

letting go of my kids you know letting go is really done in phases and although I let my oldest son go in a sense when he went off to college I'm not through letting go is really done in phases. And although I let my oldest son go in a sense

when he went off to college, I'm not through letting go, I know. There have been things along the

way if I look back. We let our kids go a little when they stop nursing, when they start walking

and getting around by themselves, when they can buckle into their own car seat, wash their own hair, talk,

go off to kindergarten. I've got all the moms crying right now. But really, God is amazing to

have planned these little letting goes along the way, I think, to better prepare us for much bigger

ones like college and marriage and leaving the home for real. I've crossed most of these stages

with my oldest son, all of them really except for the marriage

and living on his own part.

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