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🗓️ 11 September 2025
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Every parent makes mistakes, but the key is owning them when you make one. John and Danny share about times they messed up as parents, and how they learned from those situations. Then, Melissa Hannigan talks to Jim Daly about how volunteering in a correctional facility helped her let go of perfectionism.
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| 0:32.3 | Well, if you've been listening to the show for any length of time. It's not perfect. Parenting isn't |
| 0:39.2 | perfect. We can't do it well. And our kids know that. I think it's good for us to let them know. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm still learning too. Thanks for listening along. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:49.1 | who heads the focus on the family parenting team. Danny, I'm sure you have some people wondering just how perfect you are. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:57.8 | You do head up the parenting team here, right? |
| 1:00.4 | So you've got it all together. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, let's not say that, John. |
| 1:05.4 | You know, with the kids, we do laugh at the memories of some of the mistakes that I've made, that my wife |
| 1:14.7 | has made. |
| 1:15.9 | One of them is, I remember leaving a hose on all night long, and I would get on the kids |
| 1:23.7 | about, hey, make sure you don't leave the hose on. |
| 1:26.2 | And then I left it on overnight. |
| 1:27.6 | I was just going to say this is. And so that's one. Another one is burning food. I tell the kids, |
| 1:34.6 | hey, make sure you're watching the food. You don't want to burn it. Be vigilant. If you have |
| 1:38.8 | something on, make sure you're watching it. Wow. Okay. Well, I did the opposite of that and |
| 1:42.7 | burn the food. And it's like the Lord |
| 1:45.9 | sets it up for us to be humbled and to learn and then our kids get to see us. Yes. Well, actually, |
| 1:51.8 | that's a pretty important thing, isn't it? When we have failures and our kids know it, they're watching, |
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