Preparing for the Empty Nest Years

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Your child is has spread her wings and is prepared to leave the nest…but are you ready? Marci Seither reminds you to breathe and trust God as you launch your child into the world. She’ll propose ways you can help siblings transition and give you thoughts on how to revitalize your marriage during this time.

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0:00.0	It's like that Christmas moment.
0:05.0	You know, the kids are kind of like those little caterpillars, and then pretty soon they
0:09.4	harden up, and you can kind of see the transformation.
0:12.4	You see their wings starting to change, and pretty soon, and I was watching this one day
0:17.4	after a science experiment with our kids, and one by one, the caterpillars started
0:22.1	coming out of their chrysalises and they had these wrinkled little wings and they started flapping
0:27.0	them. And one caterpillar was struggling. He was really struggling. And it was so tempting to just
0:33.8	reach over and want to peel that off of the butterfly.
0:38.2	But if we did that, it would kill it.
0:41.4	It would never get to where it was supposed to go.
0:44.2	And so I just sometimes think that that's actually what the Lord does for us.
0:49.1	That's Marcy Seither, and she's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly,
0:53.7	talking about ways to prepare for the empty nest years.
0:57.8	Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.
0:59.6	John, I'm looking forward to the discussion.
1:01.5	But before we get started, I want to invite folks, the listeners and the viewers,
1:06.0	to visit us here at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs.
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1:19.3	And we just want to make sure people are aware of it.
1:21.5	Usually about 100 to 200,000 people come and visit with us throughout the year.
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