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🗓️ 9 September 2025
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To be a great parent, you need to be focused. Melissa Hannigan and Jim Daly explain why not being intentional is bad for your parenting. Also, John and Danny bring up why you also need God's wisdom to help you parent well.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:32.6 | Parenting is such a joyful journey and it requires so much. |
| 0:37.1 | I think I learned pretty quickly that I don't |
| 0:39.7 | have everything it takes to be a good parent. And God's been so good in helping me kind of focus |
| 0:44.9 | and be more intentional. Certainly being around focused on the family for my entire parenting |
| 0:51.2 | journey, or at least most of it, has been rich in every way because I've gotten |
| 0:55.6 | kind of a drip irrigation, Danny, on good parenting practices. And I'm John Fuller, along with |
| 1:03.0 | Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team. Danny, how often do you get parents who, |
| 1:07.9 | like me, might say, ooh, I wish I could roll back the time and do one |
| 1:12.9 | or two things differently. Like I wish I could go back and when my kids expressed feelings, |
| 1:18.2 | I could meet them at that point. We could unpack it because we really didn't do that. We just had |
| 1:22.7 | chaos. I mean, three, four, five, then six kids. It was chaos. Well, John, all of us would be right there with you on that. |
| 1:46.5 | I have not met a parent that has said, man, I did everything just right. I didn't think everything perfect. I don't wish I would have done something different. Really, we all, it's kind of like being in a, let's say you're in a football game. At the end of the game, you go, man, I wish |
| 1:44.3 | I would have done this play different. I wish I would have done that. In the middle of the play, |
| 1:47.9 | you're making decisions, and you feel it's a right one given the moment, given the formation, |
| 1:53.3 | given what's coming at you. And as a parent, you have so many different things coming at you. |
| 1:58.4 | You make those split moment decisions and many of those |
| 2:02.4 | are with time. What am I doing with the time I'm given? What am I doing with the time today? |
| 2:06.7 | And we have this added distraction called the phone that pulls us in a variety of directions, |
| 2:12.3 | right? Whether it's social media or text messaging or anybody can reach us at any time. |
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