The Joys and Challenges of Parenthood (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Katharine Hill offers practical advice and encouragement to parents of young children. She recommends stop trying to a “superhero” parent and don’t compare your family to others. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | The best parenting advice that I've been given is to give your child unconditional love. |
| 0:05.0 | One of the biggest pieces of advice I've heard for parents is just for them to reach |
| 0:09.1 | to their kids every night. |
| 0:10.1 | Don't be afraid to give your kids responsibilities that they can learn and grow. |
| 0:14.8 | Well what do you think of that advice? |
| 0:16.7 | Will that kind of a tip work in your family? |
| 0:19.3 | Today on Focus on the Family we'll be examining the important relationship between moms and |
| 0:23.8 | dads and children and our goal is to help you become the best parent you can be. |
| 0:28.4 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm John Fuller and your host is Focus President and author Jim Daley. |
| 0:33.1 | John as a dad I've really enjoyed every stage of parenting. |
| 0:37.0 | The early years were tough because it's so demanding right? |
| 0:39.8 | Both of our boys had colloc and so I was up at 2 in the morning driving them around |
| 0:44.0 | the neighborhood putting the boys on the dryer, not in the dryer. |
| 0:48.3 | To be fair it was still that tumble. |
| 0:50.8 | But it was exactly 12 weeks and it all mellowed out but poor Jean boy she was so exhausted |
| 0:56.0 | and so I was tough but it was still great. |
| 0:58.0 | I remember Troy falling asleep on my chest and just every night he just lay there as I |
| 1:03.0 | watched the news and it was just something special for me. |
| 1:07.5 | What we need to recognize is that parenting is a marathon not a sprint and boy when I meet |
| 1:14.4 | couples with young kids I remind them that the days are long but the years are short. |
| 1:19.1 | Especially with both of our, all of our kids. |
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