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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

The Process of Letting Go for Mothers

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

How do you learn to let go when your kids leave home and they aren't following Christ right now? Hillary Ferrer and Julie Loos speak with Jim Daly on ways you can trust God if you have a prodigal child. Then, Danny brings up some ways he's seen God restore kids even after they rebelled for a time.

 

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0:00.0

Hey, parents. For almost 40 years, Adventures in Odyssey has been helping kids like yours form relationships with Christ.

0:07.9

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0:18.0

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0:23.5

Focusonthefamily.com slash impossible. That's Focusonthefamily.com slash impossible.

0:32.4

Well, here at Focus on the Family, we are approaching 50 years of ministry. And over the years, we had an ongoing

0:38.8

conversation with our audiences. And listeners to our radio shows and podcasts, people who use

0:46.5

our website and are different resources, often will call us because they have a problem on the

0:51.7

home front and they want to talk to a counselor. Those

0:54.7

counselors, Danny used to be part of that team. They are the heartbeat of what we have here for help

1:01.2

for parents in particular. And one of the top calls that we get consistently is parents who are

1:07.8

struggling because their children are disconnected from the faith.

1:11.6

They're separated from the Christian faith.

1:14.7

That is a heartbreak for so many, and we want to specifically talk today about teens who might be rebellious against the faith.

1:23.5

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werthe, who heads up our parenting team,

1:27.4

and we're going to hear part of a conversation now that Jim Daly had with I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team.

1:33.8

And we're going to hear part of a conversation now that Jim Daly had with Hillary Ferrer and Julie Lose.

1:41.3

They're part of a group called Mama Bear Apologetics, and they offer hope to moms who have a rebellious teen.

1:49.7

In that same space, though, is some of that when the teenagers are acting out or not doing what you want them to do, I think some of that is that we take that as a reflection

1:54.5

of us, and that heightens our sense of, well, I'm not that good of a mom.

2:02.5

I'm not that good of a dad.

2:04.5

And that kind of compounds it, right?

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