That's what parenting is all about is helping a child succeed without parents.

And so the more decisions a parent gives a child at home because we know that once they hit the teen years

there's going to be some major decisions going on.

Dr Randy Schrader joins us today on Focus on the Family. I'm John Fuller and your host is

focus president and author Jim Daly. You know John, parenting is close to the heart

of Focus on the Family. I think in many ways that's how we were built to help equip parents to be the best parents they

could be and man we want to love our children guide our children and most of all

we want our children to have a deep faith in Christ as we launch them into a world

that will tug at that all the time.

It's one reason we try to cover a number of parenting topics here on this program and sometimes we like to examine

well I guess what we'll call the nuts and bolts of parenting and we're going to do

that today with our great guest so sit back get a cup of something, tea, coffee, whatever, and let's get into some great parenting content.

Dr. Randy Schrader is a former educator and now has a successful counseling practice in Carmel, Indiana, where he lives with his wife,

Jenny. They have two married sons and six grandchildren, and Randy has written a book called

Simple Habits for Effective Parenting, specific skills and tools that achieve extraordinary

results in raising a child.

And you can click the links in the episode notes or call 800 the letter A in the word family.

Dr Randy welcome to focus on the family.

It is my privilege and pleasure to be with you Jim and John

and thank you so very much for having me.

It's great. I could see you're full of energy and you were a football coach which we connected right away on that.

Well we did.

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