Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and

practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate

relationship.

Today we're going to be talking about all things parenting tips.

Parenting can be a major tension when it comes to marriage, and a lot of us end up having

it be a major distraction in our marriage as well.

So today we wanted to take time to share tips that have made our lives easier and our

marriage easier.

And so Dr. Kim, what are your top parenting tips?

We're going to kind of break this down by ages.

What are your top parenting tips for parenting babies?

I think I was thinking back to when before our kids, we had our kids, and I think the first thing I would say for

couples that are either pregnant now or fostering or getting ready to adopt, that kind of thing,

is that your life's going to change. I've had so many people say, oh, our life will be still the same.

And I think they get such a shock.

And I think the thing is you are going to have a new normal.

It's great, but it's going to change your life.

And I think if I've seen some, actually working a couple of weeks ago, that they really kind of continued their, we don't have any kids' lifestyle for a few months afterwards, and it was, you know, it just doesn't work.

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