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But really the goal is for us to raise them in a way that they ultimately become totally dependent upon God.

And so it's not that dependent stops. It changes the direction.

And if we have hopefully pointed them toward the Lord, we pray over them and we continue to engage them in healthy conversations, and we seek to be the example.

God wants us to be and when we blow it, we admit it, we own up to our sinfulness and do whatever is appropriate and right.

And all of that, the desire is that they will one day walk with the Lord and they will grow in that relationship and it will never stop.

That's David Gugel and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family with your host Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.

John, as a parent, one of the main goals you're working toward is launching your child into adulthood, right?

We talk about that often here and I'm excited about this topic today because I'm right there.

Trent is launched. He's out on his own and doing well and Troy is launching.

And so it's kind of right where we're living. How about you?

Well, we've had, they're all out of the house for the moment. We've had bounce backs and there's a really interesting sense of being empty nesters sort of.

On and off again as kids come and go, I do enjoy my adult kids. It's a really wonderful season.

I just don't seem as much as I'd like because they're well, they're kind of independent.

They're doing their thing. Exactly.

But what a great topic and it is the heart, I believe, of all of us as parents.

We want to launch our children well into adulthood. We're going to cover that today.

It's one of the examples of how focus on the family is here for you and we are a huge resource center.

So if you're not quite at that point yet of launching your kids, you're still dealing with maybe five, eight, 12 year olds.

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