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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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If you're facing a parenting issue, who's someone's opinion you value to navigate you through it? PeggySue Wells and Pam Farrel go over an acronym called G.P.S. that explains who the most important people are to talk to about parenting choices. Plus, John and Danny will encourage you to embrace who God says you are as a parent.
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0:00.0 | If you're about to make a big decision, who are some of the people you consult with? |
0:07.1 | I'm John Fuller, along with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny, do you have some people that |
0:12.7 | you can kind of check in regarding parenting decisions? Yeah, I mean, I've had mentors in my life, |
0:17.9 | and we talk about parenting issues or decisions or just life in general. |
0:23.9 | So good to have that in your life. |
0:26.5 | If you don't have a mentor or two or three in your life, you are missing out on something that could be very, very helpful to you. |
0:35.6 | It's important to have that community around you. I can speak |
0:38.4 | life into you. You can bounce ideas off of, have lunch, have coffee, have dinner with one, two, |
0:45.0 | three people. Even if it's once a month with each one, so, so key. It's been life transforming |
0:51.4 | for me. Yeah. And for us, just this past weekend, I was thinking about |
0:55.2 | for lack of a better term, the life group that we've been a part of that was a church Sunday school |
1:02.9 | class, and we started going over 20 years ago. And we have watched the kids of several of these families grow up, get married, start to have kids of their own. |
1:16.5 | And I have an ability to speak into their lives still. |
1:20.1 | And these friends from this group that we've been together 20 years now, they speak into my children's lives. |
1:27.0 | And it's a really rich thing. So if you're not |
1:29.1 | plugged in at a local church level, find a good church. I'm a big believer of that, |
1:35.3 | especially now looking back saying, wow, we haven't done this alone. We've had some really good |
1:40.3 | input along the way. Now, if you're a single parent, this is especially crucial. |
1:46.0 | And we're going to turn now to a conversation with Pam Farrell and Peggy Sue Wells. They spoke with |
1:51.1 | Focus on the Family President Jim Daly and shared about an acronym GPS when it comes to making |
1:57.4 | big parenting decisions. Mention you use the acronym GPS in the book. |
2:02.5 | I think this was good. |
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