#61: Lessons I Learned About Being a Dad, From My Dad

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

With Father's Day approaching, we want to honor dads. In particular, we share stories from our own dads.

In this episode, I (Josh) share about what I've learned about being a dad, from my dad. He went to be with Jesus in November, 2016, but his legacy lives on in our family.

Christi also shares memories from her childhood and the influence of her dad to this day.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

* Dad jokes. Yes, dad jokes.
* How to make the most of the moments with our kids and those we love.
* The importance of being others-centered.
* The power in telling stories of how your dad influenced you.

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0:00.0	We all have family picture frames.
0:11.8	Who are the people in yours?
0:13.4	I'm Josh.
0:14.4	And I'm Christy.
0:15.8	In This Together is a podcast where we discuss topics related to today's family.
0:23.4	We also go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame. And we interview guests to discover how their
0:28.5	stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Because you're
0:34.3	not alone. We're in this together. This episode of the In This Together podcast
0:43.1	is brought to you by Lifeway Women. For more information about all the events Lifeway
0:48.4	Women has to offer, visit lifeway.com slash women's events. Welcome back to the In This Together podcast. Today we get to talk about
0:58.6	dads. And specifically, we want to talk about things that our dads have taught us. And we're going to
1:05.7	talk especially with Josh. And if you've been following us for a little while, you know that Josh lost his dad a couple
1:14.3	years ago now.
1:16.0	And that's been obviously a very marking happening for him and his family and really in who he is. And so today we want to talk about what
1:30.3	he's learned about being a dad from his dad. That's right. And I don't know, I'm not going to
1:37.0	promise that I'm going to make it through this episode without crying. So bear with me on that one.
1:42.0	But we want this to be an uplift in the episode. We want this to be an amazing episode. Father's Day tends to be that hum drum holiday. Like the used to be that the highest number of collect calls happened on Father's Day. Are you serious? Yeah. So like there's this a stat like, you know, we honor mothers, but fathers are just kind of likew-w. And that's the case in our society. I mean,
2:02.3	you know, you look at the research on television programs and how dads look like a bunch of buffoons
2:06.3	all the time. And yet we just know that the significance of a father in a child's life is,
2:13.3	is unbelievable. And so we really want this episode to be an encouragement to those dads who are hitting it out
2:19.8	of the park.
2:21.0	Amen.
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