Hey all.

Welcome to Cross Politics on the Fight Laugh Feast Network.

Pastor Toby Chuck Knox on the Waterboy.

It's back to our series on Raising Kids.

What's it called?

And we haven't done it in so long.

It's been a month or a month and a half or something since we were last able to. So the first couple shows in this series, podcast in the series, we were focusing on more kind of like what I would, what you would call the benevolent dictator phase, kind of that one to seven. What God would call. What God would call. The benevolent dictator. A benevolent kingship. Yeah. That's right. Monarch. Yeah. Benevolent patriarchy. We definitely believe in the monarchy from ages zero to seven. That's good. That's right. So constitutional. You know, kind of the younger years laying the foundation, you got to have good concrete, good foundation for the kids. And today we want to talk. The politics of good genes. Sorry. I saw you guys do that. That was, that was pretty funny. My producers just told us five years, why you have five years to raise your kids. That's our, that was the first part of the series. Why you have five years to raise your kids. Why you have even fewer years to raise your junior high kids. Junior high kids. So the politics of junior high. Yeah, you're done. It's this. This is the next phase. Why you have six months to raise your teenagers. And they're done. Yeah. And this, you know, kind of look, this phase is kind of that, that junior highish phase. that kind of 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, no, 14-ish kind of phase.

I think people know that. kind of look this phase is kind of that that that junior highish phase that kind of nine 10 11 12 13

14ish kind of phase I think people know the years yeah I think they do well I'm adding 14 in

I'm including 14 which people would say wouldn't be junior high some people do and everything well

if you're me did it twice so you know that's why it's put I'm just kidding is that why this is a little

bit like tender for you you're're like, and even 14. It's true. This is the time, though. Like, this is a, this is the time where you do start getting your report cards back of what you've done in the previous years. Right. Like, so you realize in this point, like, oh, we have some corrections. Let me go back to the drawing board. See what

these blueprints say I didn't do right. Not just some corrections, but some repentance.

This is where you see, oh, maybe me as a parent, I need to repent of this because you kind of see

it in your kids. Right. I think it's really important to do that first. So when we're talking about raising kids, disciplining kids,

teaching them, correcting them, Jesus says before you try to take the speck out of your brother's eye,

you've got to remove the log from your own eye. And that applies to you correcting your kids.

That means check yourself first. And you just said it well knox but that is like you know how your

kids are doing really are is generally is a report card yeah because because i mean who who is

who is training them you are us and so i mean that can you can you can you can have sins of commission

you've sinned against them in some way shape or form, you can have sins of commission.

You've sinned against them in some way, shape, or form, or you can have sins of omission. You realize you didn't teach them. Yeah. Like one time, I'm, I'm like, you don't bust me out? I'm going to bust myself. Oh, okay. I was like, don't, don't bust me. I got plenty. No, one time I mean this is a

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