How Our Parents Shape Us with Ray and Lora Lee Wood

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode boasts the MOST influential people we’ve ever had on the podcast! Ray and Lora Lee Wood, aka Christi’s Dad and Mum, join us for the first time ever to talk about what it was like parenting Christi (quite a trip) and the lessons they learned from being parents.

This is a fantastic multigenerational episode for parents, grandparents, and in-laws alike. Ray and Lora Lee share practical and life-giving insights for parents across all ages and stages, and the secrets to keeping all three generations of their adult children and grandchildren so relationally close.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction to Christi’s parents and the people who shape us
4:30 Ray and Lora Lee reflect on their early years of parenting Christi
12:12 The lessons Ray and Lora Lee learned from being parents and the values they tried to instill
38:05 Parenting teens & older kids and strengthening bonds with adult children

Show Notes:
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Back to your comment, Christy, about the things that your kids experience out in the world
0:06.1	that may be not nice and hard.
0:13.5	And I do feel those things are necessary, though, in order to develop a strength.
0:26.3	Because, wow, like like it is not nice out there and yes the lord will protect our children but there needs to be a solid core in there of their own that has been forged and not not protected in a bubble
0:45.1	and prevented from pain and unfortunately and like we all actually learn that way. Yeah.
0:59.8	And our faith is strengthened by those hard things.
1:07.8	I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down.
1:31.1	I'll just let go and I'll try help me walk this road and find my way back home. Welcome back to the Famous Adon Podcast.
1:35.1	We're so excited to be with you today.
1:36.9	We are in a series called The People Who Shape Us, and we have none other than my in-laws,
1:46.3	Ray and Laura Lee, on the podcast today.
1:47.6	Christy take it away.
1:49.0	Christy's going to cry.
1:51.3	Christy's going to cry a lot.
1:56.0	Guys, can I just say to just to honor them?
1:58.3	This is not super comfortable probably.
1:59.0	No. But here we are. I'm not sure how we got here i know they just drove in
2:05.9	from canada and we're like sit down we're going to put a mic in front of you and talk about the people
2:12.9	who shape us you said there'd be payback. I did. I'm taking mom.
2:18.7	I was like, I have an incentive, okay?
2:20.4	So I'm taking her to a tulip farm after this.
2:23.9	And it's so pretty.
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