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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Ending Comparison Before It Hurts You

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

By clicking on an app, you can see a snapshot of how other parents are raising their kids. But we must remember that social media doesn't show us the full picture. Danny and John share ways that social media has influenced parenting. Plus, Jim Daly and Ashley Willis talk about why it's good to let go of comparison in your parenting. Find us online at focusonthefamily.com/parentingpodcast. Or call 1-800-A-FAMILY.

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0:00.0

Well, it's so easy to get on social media and to start making comparisons.

0:08.0

I see that mom doing the perfect birthday party or see that dad doing the perfect dad thing with his

0:13.8

kids and that's all well and good but that's what we post is the perfect right

0:18.6

I'm John Fuller along with Dr Danny where to who heads up the focus on the

0:22.3

family parenting department.

0:23.6

And Danny, there's an emptiness that seems to saturate a lot of what happens in social media

0:29.6

because I start looking thinking, oh, I don't measure up. What's with that? Yeah, it's it's amped up the

0:36.2

comparison reality that we do as parents. It's not a new thing that we compare. I'm sure

0:41.8

my parents did and and my grandparents, my great-grandparents

0:45.7

compared themselves to the other parents at church or other places but now we compare

0:50.2

ourselves to the entire world in parenting.

0:53.8

And generally, the ones that are staging at the best

0:58.4

and creating the most engaging type of content

1:01.0

are the ones that people follow and like and look at.

1:05.3

And most parents feel inadequate compared to that and go, man, I am really failing my kids and

1:10.4

I feel really bad because I'm not giving them experiences like these families,

1:17.0

you know, going on high ropes courses almost every Saturday or going kayaking and

1:22.0

squirrel suit flying or whatever it is and then they're they're

1:25.9

posting these amazing cookouts and baking time together and it looks beautiful

1:31.2

and happy and I'll say every home has difficulty and messiness

1:38.7

and on social media our brain thinks my home is the only one and I'm failing. And what I've noticed

1:45.6

with parents is they're stressed almost to the point of burnout, they're tired,

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