Building Memories, Handling Frustrations
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Making memories with your children is one of the best aspects of being a parent. Yet, every parent know that some moments are joyful while others are difficult. What do you do when parenting gets frustrating? John and Danny discuss the importance of creating memories with your children and how to respond well when you face frustration. Featuring Julie Lavender.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the great privileges of parenting is making memories with your kids and |
| 0:07.3 | whether it was running down for ice cream at the drive in or some camping |
| 0:11.5 | during the summer or maybe going out looking for a Christmas tree. |
| 0:15.4 | We've got lots of traditions that we've enjoyed with our kids. |
| 0:19.6 | Now that they're adults, not so much. |
| 0:22.0 | So my encouragement to you as a mom or a dad, especially if your kids are |
| 0:25.8 | younger is lean in. There's a day when they're going to say, I'm busy, can't make that one. |
| 0:30.7 | Well, I'm John Fuller in the studio with our vice president of |
| 0:34.2 | parenting Dr Danny Werta and Danny you've made lots of memories any favorites |
| 0:38.6 | come to mind with your kids? Yeah I mean I love Gardening was a favorite of mine with my kids. |
| 0:45.3 | They were discovering things and we were tasting |
| 0:47.7 | a variety of things coming from the garden |
| 0:49.6 | and getting dirty together. |
| 0:51.8 | That was a lot of fun. This is I'm gonna I'm gonna grab onto a phrase you've used. I'm gonna hijack the phrase |
| 0:58.5 | Ninja-Level gardening. Who does that to have taste tests in the garden with their kids? |
| 1:05.0 | That's wonderful. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a great exploration. |
| 1:07.0 | We had fun talking about just the aromas that we get and also just the I have no way of creating an apple or a peach, but I can tend to a tree that provides that fruit. |
| 1:25.8 | I need to water it. |
| 1:27.1 | There's so many life lessons in gardening. |
| 1:28.8 | That was one of the favorites in our home. |
| 1:30.9 | And another one was building tunnels and tents with blankets and chairs and |
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