How Many Kids Should You Have? Asking the Right Questions
The Real Life Podcast
Jefferson Bethke
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Jeff and Alyssa Bethke talk about family size and parenting intentionally.
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| 0:00.0 | One thing that I heard that I think is really helpful is kids aren't expensive |
| 0:03.6 | Lifestyles are expensive because I think we think kids are really really |
| 0:06.8 | really really expensive they're not you know it's really really expensive having to get that new baby |
| 0:11.6 | swing every time you have a baby. |
| 0:14.0 | You know, it's really expensive, |
| 0:16.0 | having to get, you know, all these, you know, |
| 0:19.0 | ex-dipers and clothes and onesies |
| 0:21.0 | and that cool little new thing that comes with an app that allows you to rock your baby to sleep. |
| 0:25.0 | That's expensive. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the real life podcast |
| 0:31.0 | where we talk about exactly that every single week. |
| 0:34.8 | Real life. |
| 0:35.9 | Which means some episodes might be about a fight we just had. |
| 0:39.2 | Some episodes might be about potty training since we have two toddlers and some might be about |
| 0:43.2 | eschatological realism because I love thinking and talking about deep theological |
| 0:47.4 | things and maybe we'll talk about all three of those in one episode but we hope |
| 0:51.0 | the show feels like hanging out in our living room with us drinking a cup of |
| 0:54.9 | coffee as we discuss faith and family and culture and Jesus. Me and my lovely wife |
| 1:00.4 | Alyssa are your host and don't hesitate to hit us up or reach out on |
| 1:04.0 | social media to say hi or comment on this week's episode. Enjoy. What's up guys? Jeff and Alyssa here? I didn't guess him a name. Okay let's try that one more time. |
| 1:23.2 | What's up guys, I'm Jeff. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm Melissa. |
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