Teaching Kids Character Through Sports
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Brian Smith and Ed Uszynski share stories and advice for parents of kids in sports. Hear about their passion for utilizing sports to disciple their kids and teach them character.
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| 0:28.3 | slash impossible. It really does start with us as parents just taking a deep breath. It's just a game, a game that they can play and enjoy, |
| 0:39.5 | and we can sit back as their parents and enjoy the stage of life and watch them play |
| 0:43.6 | and not put so pressure on them to be what we hope they can be at 16 while they're six years old. |
| 0:49.8 | That's Brian Smith, and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Bailey. |
| 0:53.9 | We're going to be talking about how sports can be an opportunity to disciple your kids. That's Brian Smith, and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:58.3 | We're going to be talking about how sports can be an opportunity to disciple your kids. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:02.1 | John, I'm always about sports. |
| 1:02.8 | I love sports. I hope I don't make it an idol, but it's fun. |
| 1:06.2 | It's fun to compete. |
| 1:07.4 | I love playing football, basketball, and baseball in high school. And I just love it. In fact, |
| 1:13.5 | you know, it became structure for me because of my structureless home. And I lived with my |
| 1:19.4 | brother through high school. And I didn't have a lot of boundaries, but sports taught me so much |
| 1:24.8 | about what it meant to do the right thing and be part of a team and all those |
| 1:28.9 | good things. And it was my sophomore year football coach that actually led me to the Lord |
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