God so loves my children and he gave them free will and he he's got it you

know. Our job is to love our kids unconditionally and understand that God's

God the rest of it. That's hard to do sometimes. I don't need to change my kids.

But you're right. God's there. My job is to just love them because there is in

this crazy world and tough world. The kids need somebody who loves them unconditionally.

Yeah and that's our job. That's Ken Swarner and he joins us today on focus on the family.

Your host is focus president and author Jim daily and I'm John Fuller.

You know John as I look back on my life man I have really loved being a dad.

Probably more than anything and it had challenges of course but man what great rewards

there are in parenting I think and you know so often it outweighs the difficulties.

It's never perfect don't get me wrong you're going to hit some difficulty but I really I just

am so grateful the Lord bless me with children and a lot of our memories center around laughter

and having fun together. I mean to the point of laughing so hard melt came out you know

you know that I mean we had those moments and it was so much fun and today we want to share with

you some humorous stories about raising children. I'm sure you've got your own.

Hopefully we may be some people to share those stories with us. I'm proud of that but

it might be fun to collect some of the stories from our listeners and our viewers and I imagine

you're going to pick up on some lighthearted spiritual lessons today as you listen in.

Yeah Ken Swarner has some terrific stories he'll be throwing his family under the bus this entire

conversation with their permission. I can't wait. He's a publisher and a writer and is married to

Allison they have four grown children and four grandchildren and he's captured his hilarious

stories and insights in a terrific book called Why Did God Give My Kids Free Will. He could have waited

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