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🗓️ 1 August 2024
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Have you ever wanted to say what was on your mind, but you knew you shouldn't in front of your kids? John and Danny share times that's happened in their own parenting. Also, Dr. Kathy Koch tells Jim Daly a funny story about a time she held her tongue, even when it was difficult situation.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe as a parent you had at least one frustrating moment where you knew as a mom or a dad that you internally were about to say something but you stopped. You realized no I really shouldn't say anything |
| 0:14.3 | it happened to me when one of my daughters was driving and I was sitting in the car |
| 0:19.4 | and I it took everything in me not to say something about some of her driving skills. |
| 0:25.2 | I felt a little bit unsafe at one moment and then I just reminded myself, God is sovereign, |
| 0:30.0 | he's got this, I'm going to trust him and then I'll trust her driving |
| 0:34.0 | secondarily. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Huerta who heads up our |
| 0:38.1 | parenting team. That was a small thing but I mean criticizing my child for a driving I probably |
| 0:44.6 | shouldn't do that I'm glad I did not say anything because we got to some good |
| 0:48.3 | conversation later on there are moments where it's like the Holy Spirit is |
| 0:51.8 | warning us oh yeah wait wait wait wait |
| 0:53.9 | do you can you relate yeah I remember one of the the first moments I had as a dad with |
| 0:58.8 | with my daughter she I had these papers I was working on and she spilled milk all over the table. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm sure everyone's experienced that moment, right? |
| 1:08.0 | And I just went all over and I was feeling very reactive in the moment. |
| 1:13.4 | I was going to just say, why, you know, I already told her, |
| 1:17.0 | you need to sit still there, your milk. |
| 1:19.7 | And I looked over and she said, that wasn't supposed to happen. |
| 1:25.0 | And it's almost as that the Holy Spirit spoke through her to me. |
| 1:30.0 | And I really thought through, I have a lot of that |
| 1:32.5 | wasn't supposed to happen moments too. |
| 1:34.7 | Hmm. |
| 1:35.7 | So I said, hey, let's clean it up together. |
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