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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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Are you more of a planner or a spontaneous parent? Danny and John share how they approach planning vs. spontaneity. Then, Jim Daly talks with Kristi Clover about how to balance planning with flexibility as a mom or dad.
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0:00.0 | Well, some people are planners and other people are more spontaneous. And in your home, there's |
0:09.2 | probably both of those, especially in mom and dad. Now, I tend to be a planner. Danny, I know that |
0:14.5 | won't surprise you. I'm a firstborn, like to know the outcome. I like to plan. My wife, when I first |
0:20.4 | met her, said, |
0:21.1 | hey, we're in the mountains here of northwest Arkansas. Let's go find out where that trail goes. |
0:27.3 | And every bit of my fiber was like, show me a map. What's the safety plan? What's the destination? |
0:34.2 | How long are we going to be gone? I just want to know. I want to plan this out. And then I get to |
0:39.0 | relax along the way. So parenting has been a different kind of thing for us because I make the |
0:45.5 | plans and she directs my steps. Now, there's a bad twist on a scripture, but really, |
0:51.6 | Dean has been the more spontaneous fun mom, and I think that kind of |
0:56.8 | happens in some families. One parent is more spontaneous and, quote, fun, and the other is more |
1:01.7 | of a planner. It's fun for planners. It's just a different kind of. You know, those differences are |
1:06.3 | usually initially attractive. Yes. And then it can drive you crazy. You know, Heather is truly the planner of our home. |
1:14.0 | I'm much more spontaneous. |
1:15.5 | Let's go here. |
1:16.8 | Let's go there. |
1:17.2 | Oh, look, there's a trail. |
1:18.3 | Let's go explore that. |
1:19.8 | She loves to operate off the calendar at our home. |
1:23.3 | Dinner time, she'll say, guys, here's a calendar. |
1:25.6 | And we're going, oh, no, a business meeting. |
1:34.2 | But she wants to plan things out, and I appreciate that about her. And I've had to learn to see it from her perspective, that this is so important for our home, and she's been trying to |
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