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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Heroes Your Kids Can Admire

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As your kids are growing up, it's good to introduce them to real-life heroes. Jim Daly talks with Lisa-Jo Baker about who some of her heroes are, and John and Danny discuss some places you can take your kids to meet admirable people.

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0:00.0

Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny

0:05.7

De Guerta who heads up our parenting department here and Danny let me just have you go

0:09.8

back into your childhood. Who was somebody that you considered a hero

0:15.3

as you were growing up?

0:16.6

I watched a lot of Westerns, and so I would have to say

0:19.3

there were certain gun slingers that I look up to.

0:22.2

How about you? That's funny besides

0:23.6

Superman and Michael Jordan. Oh there would really I'd go to I go to my

0:27.4

grandpa. My grandpa was an amazing man. He was so strong. He was humble. He loved God with all his hard, loved his family with everything

0:36.0

he had as well. He was a beekeeper, he was a gardener. He lived simply, he wasn't pursuing things, but he was pursuing life and he loved people

0:45.4

and was playful and fun to be with.

0:47.8

As a little kid, I really loved spending time with him.

0:51.4

And I remember that first summer that I spent with him. I did not

0:54.6

speak English and he didn't speak Spanish and yet three months we spent together

0:59.7

doing gardening and beekeeping and I just loved being by his side.

1:04.0

His influence lives on in you, doesn't it?

1:06.2

Yes, yes it does.

1:07.4

Yeah, wow.

1:08.7

Well, let's go ahead and hear from Lisa Joe Baker who

1:11.5

chatted with Jean Daly and

1:13.0

folks President Jim Daly about teaching your kids

1:16.7

about real heroes.

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