How Everyday Messes Can Teach Your Kids to Get Along

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Justin Earley, father of four boys, shares his experiences navigating messes and sibling fights. Hear how to create stability in your home and teach spiritual lessons in the small moments.

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0:00.0	You know, nobody thinks, I want to be the kind of dad the night who yells their kids to bed.
0:04.4	Like, nobody thinks that.
0:05.6	But so many of us do that because of our instinctual responses to the mess and the chaos.
0:10.4	And I found that fighting habit with habit was actually a grace.
0:15.6	Well, that's Justin Early.
0:16.8	He's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
0:19.6	He'll be sharing about how you can navigate the chaos of parenting young children. And your host is Focus President. Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. I just think of all the parents just went, finally. There's an easy step here. I navigate all the challenges. Yeah, all of them. I like that. Hopefully a few. but, you know, it's a great topic about how to,
0:39.5	you know, communicate with your young children, particularly. And this is a children's book we're
0:44.4	going to talk about today, the big mess. It starts right there. I'm sure a lot of moms and
0:48.9	some dads are going, yeah, it feels like every day is the big mess. And, you know, we don't talk about children's books too
0:55.8	often, but they're good things to be highlighting so that you know about them and can get them.
1:01.0	And I was mentioning off Mike that, you know, one of our favorites was Good Night Moon. I think
1:06.6	I read that over a thousand times to the boys. yet there's so many good things to be learning.
1:12.6	Also, we wanted to mention something that we've started not long ago called Age and Stage.
1:17.6	And this is a perfect time to mention that to you.
1:19.6	You can go up, it's free.
1:20.6	Just let us know the age of your children and we will age that record over time up until 18 and we'll send you something weekly
1:29.2	to think about and to apply in your parenting as your child goes from one to five to 10 to all the
1:36.8	way up to 18. And it's a good little parenting tool and I want more people to sign up for that.
1:41.4	Again, it's free and you can pass that along to friends. If your grandparents, let your adult kids know about it. Yeah, we want to be up for that. Again, it's free, and you can pass that along to friends.
1:44.5	If your grandparents, let your adult kids know about it. Yeah, we want to be part of the journey,
1:48.9	and this is a terrific way for you to have insights on an ongoing basis. And we've got details
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