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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Making Lasting Memories with Your Grandkids

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Susan Yates is a grandmother who wanted her grandchildren to love God and love each other. How can you love someone well if you don’t know them? Thus, ‘Cousin Camp’ was born – growing every year from just five grandkids to 21! Yates has a gift for creating fun, faith-filled family events. She seeks to help others build intentional gatherings with their own unique family.

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0:00.0

Isn't that the most wonderful sound?

0:09.0

Isn't that the most wonderful sound?

0:11.0

Kids playing together, having fun, It just brings a smile to my face.

0:16.0

And today's over-scheduled world, there's so much going on and we get distracted.

0:20.9

It's important for us to intentionally make time to be a

0:24.2

family and for kids to be kids. I'm Jean Fuller and today on focus on the family

0:29.6

with Jim Daly we're going to explore some fun ways to connect with your grandkids.

0:35.0

You know, John, I think one of my favorite memories of my boys is the many times that I'd hear them

0:40.1

in another room laughing together.

0:42.1

It's just such a good feeling when they're

0:44.1

talking and laughing I mean like gut laughing you know you know what I'm

0:47.5

talking about just that not just the high yeah just real good gut laugh.

0:53.0

But man, what a beautiful thing that is and what great memories to treasure.

0:58.0

Kids grow up today, obviously, family spread out, people move, I mean that's the story of modern life, right?

1:03.9

They get further away from extended family, especially grandparents, and lose a bit of that connection.

1:09.6

I think Face Time is a wonderful thing in that regard.

1:12.2

I've done that with the boys as they've gone in different directions

1:15.7

to be able to face time with them and stay connected.

1:18.2

Today we do want to talk about what you can do to be intentional

1:22.0

in staying connected with your grandchildren and creating maybe

1:26.3

some space and time to actually bring them and do some fun things with them.

1:30.5

Mm-hmm.

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