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🗓️ 5 October 2023
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What's your most embarrassing moment? John and Danny share some of their embarrassing stories, and also how God's peace is a sustaining force when parenting feels crazy. Plus, Jim Daly speaks with Courtney Ellis on what she learned after a washer broke down.
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| 0:00.0 | So the question was what's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you as a parent and my mind reels because there are so many |
| 0:10.5 | But one thing that came to mind pretty quickly was I had a colleague over for lunch one time. |
| 0:17.8 | My wife was out of town. I'm doing the Mr. Dad thing. I got five kids here at the house and I invite this single friend over and one of my daughters |
| 0:26.9 | decides to do a John Fuller and that is ask questions of our guests and so out of the blue my dear alley says what color are your nose |
| 0:35.9 | hairs and I just thought this is not kind of the conversational style I I |
| 0:41.6 | taught you about I mean you could ask questions but that's |
| 0:44.2 | kind of a personal question. How is he supposed to know anyway and why why would you |
| 0:48.2 | ask that? I had to do some real quick thinking and then just laugh it off and |
| 0:52.2 | move on. |
| 0:53.0 | It wasn't like as embarrassing as kids melting down in public, |
| 0:56.1 | which I've had, or kids stealing things, |
| 0:58.4 | which I've had, or other things. |
| 1:00.2 | But that's the first thing that popped into mind. |
| 1:02.0 | Danny is, I'm talking, and this is John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta. |
| 1:05.8 | As I'm talking you've been embarrassed as a dad maybe when they were younger maybe when they were |
| 1:10.3 | older what came to mind in one of the first, is one of the first moments. |
| 1:15.3 | The one that came to mind somewhat vividly right now is when we were at the grocery store, the classic grocery store story is one of the first ones that I was on with my two kids and my wife couldn't go there and I said, I've got no big deal I got it so I'm going in |
| 1:35.3 | grocery cartonall and my son started to have a meltdown my daughter was |
| 1:41.3 | tired and she was melting down too. It was two on one and |
| 1:45.4 | people were looking. They looked over at me. Maybe they felt sorry, maybe they |
| 1:51.0 | felt to know. I don't know what they were feeling I just |
| 1:52.9 | remember what were you feeling yeah I was feeling pretty embarrassed at the at the time and |
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