Encouragement for Middle-Age Moms
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As your kids get older, your approach to parenting them will change significantly. John and Danny provide some encouragement for moms who are making big transitions as your children grow up. Featuring Lisa-Jo Baker and Jean Daly.
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| 0:00.0 | As your kids get older, you're going to have to probably adapt your parenting approach a bit. |
| 0:07.0 | And today, we're going to be looking at those changes, specifically offering encouragement to moms who are in the middle-age season of life. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm John Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Huerta. |
| 0:18.0 | He heads up our parenting team here at Focus on the Family and we're going to hear now a conversation Jim Daly and |
| 0:23.5 | I had with Lisa Joe Baker and Jean Daly. They shared about the season of |
| 0:28.7 | midlife and what it's like to be apparent now and how they've had to change over time. |
| 0:35.0 | Lisa Joe, welcome to focus again. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm so happy to be back. |
| 0:39.0 | It's great and of course Jean is merely a teenager, |
| 0:42.0 | but I thought she could give us some you know insights on |
| 0:46.0 | midlife. I'm surprised I even thought of this. It's so good to have year too. |
| 0:53.0 | Well, it's always a pleasure being here. |
| 0:55.3 | It's so much fun. |
| 0:56.7 | Lisa, Joe, let's ask that question. |
| 0:58.2 | What is the definition of the midlife, the middle years, who are we? |
| 1:03.4 | I'm guessing it depends on who you ask, right? |
| 1:06.5 | So I think it could be by age, but it could just be by stage. |
| 1:11.0 | I've had women that are in their late 20s tell me I feel like I'm in |
| 1:15.1 | midlife right now just because I have kids that are so much older that are going |
| 1:18.8 | into high school or college and then there are moms who started later in life and so they might be in their |
| 1:24.0 | 40s by the time their kids are heading into high school or graduating high school so |
| 1:28.0 | I mean I do think it's one of those things your internal barometer nudges you and you get that feeling you wake up one morning and you think to yourself |
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