Anyone who has been, let's call it, a successful parent will tell you that raising a son or a daughter requires some self-sacrifice.

Sometimes it means putting many things that you want to do on the back burner.

I've had a lot of friends, Danny in this season of life, ask me if I want to go golfing.

It's like, I quit golfing a long time ago. I mean I've let a lot of

hobbies just slip away because family has been the priority. It's not like I do that

perfectly but there are some things I just don't even try to do because

my kids and my wife take precedence over some hobby that takes four or five hours to do.

Well, I'm John Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Werta.

He heads up our focus on the family parenting team.

Let's go ahead and hear from Matt and Lisa Jacobson who learned this principle of self-sacrifice as they were raising eight very different children.

Lisa, let me ask you something that was on your website about that transition from, you know, working in a job that you

enjoyed, getting married, then you talk about having kids and now the importance of having at in the lab at university teaching students about gene splicing with nuclear

material. I mean I was like what are you doing and you know when we were

getting pregnant that wasn't a good environment for the health of Trent.

It would have been at that time.

But setting that aside and then seeing the job of being a mom and the importance of it. How did you process all that?

becoming a mother was a huge shock to me because I was raised in a home that was just more a little more career-minded. I had lots of that I traveled a lot I had a lot

of schooling and so becoming a mother and all of a sudden having this huge responsibility

in these little people was overwhelming to me. It was a big adjustment and I

I thought I would be better prepared for it. I thought it was the first time I found myself in a

place that I didn't feel like I was good at it.

I knew the stakes were high.

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