Never Perfect: Finding More Joy, and Less Guilt, As a Mom
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Leslie and her husband Duncan have raised six kids on two remote islands in Alaska. She shares her journey from perfect mother, to fishing-crew mother, to embattled mother, to happy “good-enough” mother who discovers the power of true love.
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| 0:00.0 | For decades we've helped Tom's family with parenting, adoption, and what it means to be pro-life. |
| 0:09.0 | It's just typical of the way focus on the family has worked over the years. They just |
| 0:14.5 | provide very practical, publicly based things that help people to make the right |
| 0:20.9 | choice and then support people in ways that really are necessary. |
| 0:25.2 | That's why Tom and his wife give monthly to encourage and equip other families. |
| 0:30.6 | Focus on the families out in the front lines of things that you know are necessary in the culture |
| 0:35.2 | and in the community and we as Christians are called to support God's work in that way. |
| 0:40.7 | It's just a blessing to us to be a part of it. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Jim Daly. I'm inviting you to give monthly so that together we can save even more families. |
| 0:50.0 | Join our Friends of Focus on the Family team by calling 800 a family or donate at |
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| 1:00.8 | Parenting is not a performance. It's not a test. It's a privilege to raise our kids and to live out our faith and our love for God among them. |
| 1:16.6 | We have some great encouragement for every mom and dad today on Focus on the Family with |
| 1:21.6 | Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:23.3 | Well, today's guest, Leslie Leland Fields, is a remarkable woman who with her husband raised |
| 1:28.7 | six children on a remote island in Alaska while training them in the family business of |
| 1:34.3 | commercial salmon fishing and she also is an award-winning author and she has |
| 1:39.8 | taught writing and literature classes for more than 30 years. |
| 1:43.5 | Today Leslie will share how the Lord helped her to become a guilt-free mom, |
| 1:47.9 | that's a big one, who can love her children without obsessing over every detail of their lives. |
| 1:55.0 | Well, let's go ahead and hear now from Leslie Leyland Fields, |
| 1:58.0 | speaking to a gathering of our staff on today's episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
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