Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode number 434, I've created something a little special in light of the fact

that this November marks 10 years of walking alongside each other.

Every week putting out podcast episodes, so gone into the archives, I've found 5 episodes

that you may have missed but I feel like our must.

So in this episode there are clips from each of those shows and we've linked to them

in the show notes if you want to listen to the whole episode which I think you should

if you have time.

The first episode I am sharing with you is episode 290, it was with Dr. Cara Powell,

she's a mom, and a professor and a researcher at Fuller Youth Institute and I'm starting

with this episode because it kind of coincides with the series we've been doing, my conversation

with Vila and Jane Winship about faith in our kids and our role.

And what I loved about this episode is Cara has done research on what makes faith sticky

and so she's going to share a few of those results in this clip.

Let's get right to it.

Here we go.

If I could pick just one thing, it would probably be the power of warmth in a family.

It's so easy in the midst of the busyness of family life to get focused on car pools

and chemistry homework and all it takes to keep a family functioning.

We as parents, we can get focused on simply getting kids to obey our rules or even if we're

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