What's the number one thing a mom should do as her child enters the great school years?

My first answer is to pray because this is your child's experience.

They're starting kindergarten and you need to remember that it's not you that's going

and it's not you that's doing anything, but it's their chance to start out into the world

and so you just need to pray as you send them out that you'll make good choices and that

they'll be able to just grow the way that God wants them to grow.

Well, I think every mom listening said,

yeah, I'm praying, I've been praying and that is that is one of many things that you can do

as you help your child go into the educational experience.

That's Erin McPherson and she's the author of the Christian Mama's Guide to the Great

School Years and she's also joined by her mom and mentor Ellen Schuchneck and we are so glad

to have them here on focus on the family with Jim Daly.

I'm John Fuller and Jim, this should be an imminently practical program for any mother

who is worried about what's ahead here for school.

It is, John and I think this book is really covering kindergarten through fourth grade

and those are exciting times.

I mean, I can remember being a kindergartener and I was first day of school,

my mom had to drag me to school because I didn't want to go.

Who wants to go?

And I mean, you can't be saying and want to leave all day because how are you going to play?

At home is all I know and it's a pretty good deal.

It is a good deal.

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