When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize is kids are a blessing, or all of the blessings, that they're gifts from God.

And the second thing you said was kids value relationships, not stuff.

Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed, and today they have a happy,

thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just kind of overall negativity about

kids, and to hear from someone, you know, just godly truth that kids are special,

that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly, and we love kids. Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's.

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slash gift. For my own kids, I try to teach them. There are other kids around you. And just, as you said,

open your eyes. And the importance of doing that is when we open our eyes, it causes us to

recognize beyond ourselves that there are people all around us. There are people that we can

serve. And it helps us to get off of our own, out of our own head. That's Becky Kapitsky,

and she joins us today on Focus on the Family. Thank you for being with us. Your host is

Focus President and author Jim

Daly and I'm John Fuller. John, before we launch into our program today, let me say happy

Thanksgiving from everyone here at Focus on the Family to you. Let me ask you, John,

does Thanksgiving tradition, what do you guys do? Oh, it's usually a lot of people and for many,

many years, especially when the kids were younger, we had two or three families getting together, which meant 20 kids.

There was always activity, lots of things.

And then as the kids got older, they started inviting their friends over to our house.

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