Never Stop Being a Father Figure
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Regardless of what age your kids are, it's critical for dads to always strive to be a healthy father figure. John and Danny offer some encouragement on how to be a father figure in someone's life who doesn't currently have one. Featuring Carey Casey.
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| 0:00.0 | I've got a sister who had a pretty ugly divorce and her sons really needed a |
| 0:08.1 | father figure in their lives. My dad, their grandfather, filled that role beautifully. |
| 0:14.0 | And it's an ongoing process. |
| 0:16.0 | He's still very connected to those young men. |
| 0:18.0 | And I can see the difference he's made. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm John Fuller, along with my focus colleague focus colleague Dr Danny Werta who heads up our |
| 0:24.6 | parenting department here. We're going to come back now to a conversation that Jim Daly and I had |
| 0:29.7 | with Carrie Casey. He is enthusiastic and so well spoken about being a father and a grandfather. |
| 0:37.4 | Kerry is the CEO of Championship Fothering and offers some great advice for what to do when you become a grandparent. |
| 0:45.0 | Well you know in that relationship Carrie there can be some tension too with your |
| 0:50.5 | son your grown son and his wife. |
| 0:52.8 | And I'm sure in championship grandfathering |
| 0:55.9 | and you're touching on this, which is |
| 0:58.0 | how to maintain a healthy relationship |
| 0:59.9 | with your kids, your grown kids, |
| 1:01.8 | who are raising your grandkids but I mean everyone right now |
| 1:05.0 | listening is going to click these off I've got tension there they don't like the |
| 1:08.9 | way I discipline them when they're with me they've asked me not to do that with the grandkids they don't |
| 1:14.8 | want me to buy him sugar here's a classic right they forget that right you know |
| 1:19.9 | they come home and they're going grand Grandpa bought his donuts mom. |
| 1:24.3 | What does mom do? |
| 1:25.3 | calls Grandpa, Grandpa, don't buy them donuts, |
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