The Joyful Parent: How to Get There
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Wanna know how to be a joyful parent? On FamilyLife Today, authors Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey share habits that build joy into you --and your kids too!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so bring in our first born home from the hospital. Oh, yes, you know what 30. How old is he 35 years ago? |
| 0:07.5 | So CJ 35 years old now married, but when he was an infant brought him home put him in the crib and our rental house |
| 0:14.0 | Remember that place and literally stood over the crib looking down and what was I thinking? |
| 0:18.9 | I have no idea what to do. That's exactly what I was thinking. I was like I have no clue |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app. |
| 0:47.2 | This is Family Life today. |
| 1:00.8 | You were thinking it too, but I also was thinking I never had a dad. So I don't know how to be a dad. I've never had a baby. |
| 1:06.7 | I remember picking up your brother's Ted when he was a baby and everybody in the house was throwing him up in the air |
| 1:13.6 | And I'd never done that because I had never been around baby. So I take him and throw him up here and he hits the ceiling. |
| 1:17.7 | Everybody looked at me like are you clueless? So there I am now. I'm a dad and I have no clue what to do. |
| 1:24.0 | And I think most parents feel like that and they bring their baby home and they're thinking now what? |
| 1:29.5 | And then they enter the toddlers or the two and three year old that's hard and then they have teenagers and each stage |
| 1:35.9 | you're trying to figure out now what do I do. And so we're all looking for help. |
| 1:39.7 | Yeah and I am excited to tell you we have in the studio with us today help. |
| 1:44.0 | For all parents we have two dads right who we've had here before because you know what Ann and I call you guys |
| 1:49.6 | you're the brain guys. We've got Dr. Mark Warner with us today in Chris Corsi. You've been with us |
| 1:55.3 | before we're going to say welcome back to Family Life today. Appreciate it. It's good to be here. |
| 2:00.4 | Two years ago you were here you wrote a book called The Four Habits of Joy Filled Marriages. Did I say |
| 2:05.7 | right? You did? And I got to tell you you don't know this but after that time with you guys we stole |
| 2:11.2 | that material. I preached it at my church. We actually did a message on it on the Family Life. |
| 2:17.1 | Love like you mean it. Crews. We did. Wow. We gave you credit. Oh, I don't think we gave |
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