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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Well, a really important thing that I learned early on, and I want to make sure parents know, is that

we live in an unusual culture that does not have a standardized means of transitioning our children into adulthood.

Because of that, you don't have to give teenagers everything they want, but they do need to know, am I on a track here where you will be out of my life and it will be up to me?

That's Dr. Ken Wilgus, and he joins us again today on Focus on the

Family with Jim Daly along with Jessica Pfeiffer, his podcast co-host. Thank you for joining us. I'm John

Fuller. John, we had an excellent conversation last time about the key things that parents need to

know about raising teens. And I even talked about our success in our parenting after reading Dr. Ken Wilkes's

great book, Feeding the Mouth That Bites You. Once I stopped laughing about the title, we got

into the content. Such a great insight into what you're trying to achieve as a parent.

And sometimes we, particularly as Christian parents, we're looking for spiritual excellence

and never doing wrong and all these kinds of absolutes, which are important.

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