When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God.

And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff.

Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy,

thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about

kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,

that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly, and we love kids. Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's.

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My favorite parenting teen prayer comes out of Philippians 2, verse 13. That verse says,

it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. In other words, he's giving you, he's giving your

teens, the desire and the power to do what pleases him. We think it's on us. I got to get my

kid to think and say and do, you know, the right thing.

That's Jody Burnt, describing a parent's passion for the protection and well-being of their

child, especially during the teen years. And we'll hear more from Jody today. It's a best of

2024 episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.

We know a lot of moms and dads that may have an underlying sense of fear.

Dads may struggle with that. They don't see it as fear, but you feel a little helpless.

Because the challenges teenagers teenagers face today seem so much bigger and greater than what our

generation dealt with when we

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