How many of you would agree that parenting has always been difficult? Raise your hands right now.

Raise them up, raise them up, raise them up, don't point at your own child to raise them up in the air.

Online, you can type in the comment section, parenting has always been difficult.

Let me ask you another question. How many of you would agree that parenting today may be more difficult than it ever has been?

If you agree, raise two hands to surrender. I need help, God.

You can type it in the comment section. Parenting is very, very difficult today.

We have six children and we raised our kids kind of back in the good old days.

Literally a couple of decades ago when our kids were little, I think it was easier to raise kids back then.

We home educated our kids and so they were pretty sheltered.

The biggest controversy we had two decades ago when our kids were little, maybe six and four, my two oldest daughters,

my oldest daughter came running in the room and said, Sissy said a bad word.

She was tattling on her sister for saying a bad word. I said, what did your sister say?

And she said, I'm not going to tell you what the bad word was. It's too bad. You can't make me say it.

So just tell me what did the bad word, what letter did it start with? She said, Sissy said BS.

So wow, four years old, like words she learned that. And then I thought I better go ahead and make sure that BS means what I think it means.

And so I said, why don't you go ahead and just tell me what bad word is the BS word? She said, I'll never say it out loud.

So just whisper to my ear, you won't get in trouble, I promise. And so my oldest daughter whispered and said, she said Britney Spears.

True story. Like I said, we parented back in the good old days when things were much simpler than they are today.

We do have six grown children, four of them are married. And by the grace of God to the glory of God, all six of them and their spouses are serving Jesus faithfully in his church worshiping God and living for Jesus.

In fact, every year we do what I call a legacy trip. We bring them all including the grandkids now on a trip. This was our trip a week ago. It was amazing. It was perfect in every way.

We had spiritual time, devotional time. We had worship time. It was all centered around Jesus. It was perfect because we are the perfect Christian family.

Except we're not. It was pretty amazing. And I actually was feeling rather proud of our parenting until I realized that all week long there were silos behind the scenes.

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