When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

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thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about

kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,

that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

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So last night, one of my kids had messed up, and I wasn't altogether pleasant. I was the

hard coach last night, and I woke up this morning thinking, was that the right approach?

Should I have been gentler?

Should I have said something differently?

If you can identify with that, well, welcome to the show.

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta.

He leads our parenting team here.

And Danny, I'm pretty sure most parents have felt like,

uh, was that the right call? What do we do? Yeah, it's kind of a picture of football game where

you're having to call audibles. It's not turning out exactly. The play's not turning out exactly

how you're planning it to be. And then you're scrambling and running. That describes my whole

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