8 Ways to Cultivate Relationships and Joy With Your Kids (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Busy parents are so frantic and rushed today they are missing out on what’s most important — connecting with God and their kids. The Straubs offer practical help to families about slowing down, finding joy, living simply and even allowing yourself to experience some boredom. A good reminder about having more grace for each other and trusting God for the results.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Daly. In summertime, giving to focus on the family slows down, but families in crisis |
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| 0:30.6 | But I see things in them and I can speak things over them and I can be so careful that I do not |
| 0:37.2 | speak critical things over them. And as can be so careful that I do not speak critical things over them. |
| 0:39.1 | And as a mom, like that, that's hard for me because it's just like you're talking with |
| 0:43.5 | Jean. Like you're wanting to correct so much as opposed to, I think now I see it more as |
| 0:49.8 | calling higher, like glory to glory. Like I call you higher as opposed to cut you down lower. And that's a |
| 0:58.6 | challenge because so often I think that's how we treat ourselves, right? That's Christy Straub, |
| 1:03.4 | offering ways to bring balance and hope to your parenting journey. And she and her husband, |
| 1:08.5 | Dr. Josh Straub, are with us again today on Focus. I'm |
| 1:11.5 | a family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, we did have a fascinating |
| 1:16.6 | discussion last time. I think extremely helpful for the listeners, the YouTube watchers. If you |
| 1:21.8 | missed it, let me just encourage you to go to the website. You can download it. Get the app for your |
| 1:26.1 | phone and you got access to the entire library you can download it, get the app for your phone, and you got access |
| 1:27.5 | to the entire library, including the program yesterday. |
| 1:31.7 | Just save it as a resource when you're having those moments as a parent going, ah! |
| 1:37.0 | You can go and listen and say, okay, there's great stuff here, and we're going to continue |
| 1:40.8 | to talk about those things. |
| 1:42.5 | Last time it was about be joyful in your parenting. |
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