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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Discover the Wonder of Nature with Your Kids

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a world increasingly dependent upon screens and technology, it's as crucial as it is countercultural to help kids capture the natural joys and treasures each day holds. Mom of four and award-winning author, Amanda Dykes, unpacks hands-on activities that invite children and their parents to spot the wonders of God's creation.

 

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0:00.0

Your marriage can be healed.

0:03.3

A hope restored marriage intensive from focus on the family can transform you and your spouse's relationship in just a few days.

0:12.4

We'll go to this thing, but this is it.

0:14.7

If this doesn't work, we're done.

0:16.3

What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage.

0:23.3

Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com.

0:32.3

Over and over again, when we're looking at God's creation, what we see is if God can do this,

0:41.7

he can do anything. Nothing's impossible for him, and they're learning all about possibility.

0:47.3

That's Amanda Dykes, and she's with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, sharing

0:52.2

insights about how you can help your children experience the

0:55.3

wonders of nature. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. You know, John, I'm thinking about the

1:00.7

old road trips that Trent and I would take, just going to school or picking them up from somewhere

1:05.9

and coming back at sunset and looking at the sunset and going, wow, look at the painting that God gave us tonight.

1:12.4

You know, it's amazing.

1:13.5

Those things stuck, and we still talk about that today.

1:16.7

Now that they're in their 20s, they're going, Dad, you remember when you saw that great sunset?

1:20.7

But here in Colorado, we do have fabulous sunsets, and that's something you could point your

1:26.2

kids to to say, look at God's nature.

1:29.2

And we're going to have a great discussion today with our guest, Amanda Dykes, about

1:34.3

being intentional as a parent to point out God's nature.

1:38.0

And then your kids have a structure in which to understand what's going on around them.

1:42.4

And, you know, at Focus, we're all about that.

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