What's one of the best gifts you've ever given one of your kids?

I'm John Fuller along with the leader of our parenting team here at Focus on the Family,

Dr. Danny Werta and Danny think about a gift you've given,

either Alex or Lexi.

What really popped?

What made them think, ah, I feel really loved?

Yeah, I think one of them that I would say is the most meaningful would be a sword.

I got a sword for my son.

A real sword.

A real sword when he was 13 years old.

We had a ceremony and that's one that has stood out to him as a meaningful gift because of the

of what it represented and the ceremony around it. It was it was really a great moment. I asked him recently. I said, hey, what is, what are some of the gifts you've remembered?

There were LEGO sets and there were other things, but he said, man, that sword was something that I still remember today. And he said it was a very meaningful gift.

Okay, so the context of that would have been like an entering into manhood kind of situation?

Yes.

Yeah, so we gathered some men together and had some wonderful barbecue and then they wrote letters to Alex around his 13th birthday and part of that was giving him a sword where it had a verse and

one of his favorite piece of scripture Psalm 23 so we put that on there engraved it on the

sword and it's to this day in his room.

Nice.

Love, love, the memory of that moment and for my daughter it was a journal that we gave to

her.

Yeah, she's really big in words, isn't she? Yeah.

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