Pouring Into the Lives of Your Grandkids
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Grandparents are an integral part of the family, passing along wisdom, faith, and love. While many of the "rules" of grandparenting are timeless, some of the games have changed. Chrys Howard and Shellie Tomlinson will help you better understand the unique role you have in supporting your adult children and influencing your grandchildren.
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:01.9 | They can come in and infuse some strength and this is what we can do as grandparents. |
| 1:05.7 | So we're kind of on the sidelines. We're ready. We're suited up. |
| 1:08.8 | If you need me, mom and dad, I'm here. But when we're called up, when they blow the whistle or |
| 1:13.8 | whatever, they call us in, we're fresher. You know, we're not like embedded in the nuts and bolts |
| 1:19.8 | of the raisin the kids and so we can come with fresh strength. That's Shelley Tomlinson. She's |
| 1:25.6 | with us today on focusonthefamily, along with her friend and co-author Chris Howard. Your host is |
| 1:30.6 | focus president and author Jim Daley. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John here focusonthefamily. |
| 1:36.4 | We love grandparents. I mean, I'm not one yet. You're not one yet. But we're looking forward to |
| 1:42.2 | that time. One day. And it's one of the things that people will contact us about. They'd like to see |
| 1:47.3 | more content for grandparents. And so here's your day. We're going to talk about being a grandparent, |
| 1:53.0 | being a really good grandparent and how to do the right things and avoid doing the wrong things. |
| 1:59.0 | And I am looking forward to this discussion so that in time, in the right time, when I become a |
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