When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God.

And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff.

Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy,

thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about

kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,

that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

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Well, despite the truth that the scripture has a lot to say about worry and about not being

fearful, oh man, we still get worried and fearful, especially when our kids

are older and making choices. Poor choices. I'm John Fuller, along with the head of our

parenting team, Dr. Danny, what are some of those common fears that you hear in your counseling

practice and as focuses a parenting expert.

Yeah, the big one is on safety. And, you know, will my child get hurt? Will kids leave them out?

Will they fail? Just safety emotionally and physically. And then there's also the fear of the

decisions that their kids are going to

potentially make. One of them being, are they going to have sex before marriage? Are they going to

smoke marijuana? Are they going to be using drugs? Are they going to do something completely dumb and

end up in jail? They do have some of those worries. The big ones are around sexuality,

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