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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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What if the most powerful discipleship moments with your kids weren’t planned, but hidden in the everyday?
In this heartfelt solo episode, Jerrad Lopes shares the honest struggle of staying connected with your kids; especially as they grow into pre-teens and teens. From the exhausting early days of parenting toddlers to the emotional complexity of raising a 14-year-old, Jerrad opens up about his own wins, failures, and surprising lessons learned.
Through a spontaneous UTV adventure in the Arizona desert, he discovered a truth that changed how he parents: deep connection isn’t built in big, perfectly planned moments, it’s formed in the small, mundane ones. With biblical insight from Deuteronomy and the example of Jesus, Jerrad shows how ordinary life can become the best classroom for pointing your kids to Christ.
This episode is an encouragement to slow down, notice the moments you might be missing, and remember that God uses the everyday to shape both your kids’ hearts and yours.
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0:22.1 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. We believe here at Dad Tired that strong families begin with healed man. I hope today's episode is going to help you find a little bit of healing so you can be the man that God has called you to be. We are one month away from the dad tired retreat. We do these once a year and it is so powerful, but you have to sign up right now. Like you are about to miss your chance. If you are on the fence at all, you got to pull the trigger now. I promise you it's going to be worth your investment. I know that it's hard, dude. |
0:26.5 | I totally get how hard it is to break away from your wife and from your kids. It feels like a big |
0:32.6 | sacrifice. But I promise you, every guy that leaves there, leaves the retreat and goes home, says that he is a better man. |
0:39.9 | He's a better husband, father, and man because he went to this retreat. |
0:43.4 | And so if you, again, if you're willing to put the sacrifice in, your family will fill the fruits of it. |
0:50.3 | You've got to go to dadtire.com, click the annual retreat tab. |
0:53.2 | You can get more information on that, but you need to do that right away because we are only one month away from doing that. |
0:59.1 | Also, if you are parenting, listening, I know that it sometimes feels hard to find a news outlet that you can trust. |
1:05.1 | There is a fact-based news place where you can actually find a resource that is meant for kids. It's all fact-based. |
1:12.7 | The news is designed just for the kids. It's totally, they have tons of integrity in their |
1:18.0 | journalistic practices. They are not doing anything that's taking any kind of weird |
1:22.8 | doctrinal stance or political stance. They're just giving you fact-based news meant for kids. And they also have |
1:28.8 | in their view that all, this is all part of God's design, like God is in control. Essentially, |
1:34.2 | it's not fear-based news. Like, it's not going to scare your kids. They can still hear the news, |
1:38.6 | hear what's happening in the world around them, and not also be afraid because we know that God is |
1:43.7 | in control and that ultimately |
1:45.2 | we know how this story went. So if you're looking for fact-based news with journalistic integrity, |
1:50.1 | not going to take a political stance or doctrinal stance, I highly recommend that you check out |
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1:59.9 | try it out 90 days for free. That's huge. |
2:03.8 | Go to worldwatch.com. News, forward slash dad tired. We'll put a link in the show notes and you can try that |
2:08.2 | out 90 days for free. Most of the time on this show, we have interviews and I will bring on |
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