Aunt and Uncle Awesomeness: Episode 912
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Your role as an aunt or uncle, plus lessons learned in climbing mountains, and house rules for when a roommate starts dating.
Featured musical artist: David Dunn
Roundtable: Influence Your Nephews and Nieces
Having nieces or nephews is a tremendous amount of fun — but do you know you can also have a huge impact on their lives? Spending time with them, setting a good example, teaching life skills, and just letting them know they’re loved; these all make a huge difference in their development and sense of identity and belonging. Our conversation includes practical ideas for connecting as an aunt or uncle, plus how to stay in your nieces’ and nephews’ lives even if they live far away.
Culture: Climb Every Mountain (Or at Least One)
July 30th is National Climb a Mountain Day, and we’re celebrating by chatting with hiker-adventurer Jen Smith. Jen shares how she got into mountain climbing, the benefits it provides, how she meets God (and others) on the trails, and lessons she’s learned from training and traveling (including a trip to Nepal!). She’ll also give preparedness tips for safe and successful hiking.
Rooted in Wonder: Nurturing Your Family’s Faith Through God’s Creation
Inbox: When a Roommate Starts Dating
How do you adjust when your roommate starts dating and wants to hang out in your home with their boyfriend or girlfriend? Should you set ground rules? Boundaries? Kasie Ewing weighs in.
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| 0:30.0 | Bowenless Show. |
| 0:45.5 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you, and I will give you a little preview of what is coming up since we are at the end of July. |
| 0:56.6 | Plowing through summer, you know that we have been celebrating various holidays, emphasis weeks, different things that you probably never even knew |
| 1:02.8 | existed. And now we are bringing them up. And you're going to hear about another one here in |
| 1:07.8 | just a moment. But first off, for our inbox, how do you work through the |
| 1:12.0 | dynamics of when one of your roommates starts dating someone? Our friend Casey Ewing has definitely |
| 1:18.3 | been there and she's going to weigh in. Then for our culture segment, we actually are looking at |
| 1:24.1 | National Climb a Mountain Day. Yes, that is a thing, coming up next Wednesday. |
| 1:28.9 | And so my friend, Jennifer Smith, who has literally climbed crazy things, including not Everest, |
| 1:36.5 | but something near Everest in Nepal, whatever. She's going to come here and talk about some of the |
| 1:41.6 | lessons that she has learned through that pursuit. |
| 1:45.2 | Okay, here we are for our roundtable, speaking of special holidays and all the things. |
| 1:51.4 | We're going to talk about National Aunt and Uncle Day. First of all, I guess we should clarify, |
| 1:56.2 | do we need to say National Aunt and Uncle Day or do we say Aunt? Absolutely. |
| 1:59.9 | Okay, we're going to say Aunt. National Aunt and Uncle Day. And so to have this conversation about what it means to be a great, and I'm going to say killer, aunt and uncle or uncle. Or maybe you had great aunts and uncles. That's cool too. We We have Brie here, we have Casey here, and we have |
| 2:18.7 | Jonathan here. So welcome, y'all. Hey, hi, Lisa. Hey, good to have you. Okay, so because this is a thing, |
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