Healing as a Parent from Childhood Trauma (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Melanie Shankle shares how childhood trauma and a “mean girl” mom affected her life, marriage, and motherhood, bringing a message of hope and healing in Jesus Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, parents. For almost 40 years, Adventures in Odyssey has been helping kids like yours form relationships with Christ. |
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| 0:34.9 | Are my parents paying attention to me? |
| 0:39.0 | Are they looking at their phone? |
| 0:40.1 | Are they engaged? |
| 0:41.1 | Are they listening to what I have to say? |
| 0:42.7 | Are they paying attention to who I am? |
| 0:44.8 | Because I think when they experience that unconditional love at home, |
| 0:48.4 | then they take that confidence out into the world. |
| 0:52.3 | Melanie Shankill is back with us today on this best of 2025 episode of Focus on the |
| 0:57.7 | Family with Jim Daly talking about how God brought healing and hope for her in her life and her |
| 1:03.6 | marriage and her parenting and how you can set a new path for your family. Thanks for joining us. I'm |
| 1:10.0 | John Fuller. You know, John, last time we talked with |
| 1:12.5 | Melanie about how our different upbringings affect the way we live as adults. I've experienced it. |
| 1:18.9 | You know, being in tune with those snaps, those things that you do, and then going, where did that |
| 1:24.0 | come from? If that's something you're saying to yourself, you need to stop and |
| 1:28.1 | listen to this program because those are the behaviors that we learn as children from our parents. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm hoping as a parent, my boy's got a lot of positive things, but I don't want to believe |
| 1:40.8 | that it was all positive. I'm sure I gave them some things that they can work on |
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