After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next.

Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family.

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that resources that they

suggested, they helped me tremendously in getting over guilt

and shame, walking me through that so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good

mom. So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all without focus on the family.

I'm Jim Daly.

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we're able to give new hope to families like Shelly's,

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As your kids get older, it's great to see them succeed in school and then possibly in a career as their adults.

But what's really important, I think to most

of us parents, is to see good, godly character in my child. I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny

Werta. He leads the parenting team here at Focus on the Family. What's character, Danny,

what's true character in our kids? it's it's truly who a person is

when no one's watching or when big emotions show up so who are you when you're under stress

who are you when you're feeling anger well up who are you you when no one is around? No one's watching.

That's really the true character of a person. When a person is frustrated or things don't go the way they wanted them to go, their true character starts to show up.

Because the other moments are convenient moments and moments where things are going

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