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🗓️ 5 August 2025
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Have you ever come home bewildered at how messy your house was? Most of us have. Jim Daly talks with Kristi Clover about how keeping your house clean is a process, not a one-and-done scenario. Also, John asks Danny what's helped him and his family try to keep their home clean.
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0:32.5 | Have you ever come home to a messy house and just thought, what in the world happened? |
0:37.2 | Well, I'm John Fuller, |
0:38.2 | along with Dr. Danny Werita, head of our parenting team here at Focus on the family. And |
0:43.2 | Focus President Jim Daly talked to Christy Clover. And she had some tips on cleaning and |
0:49.0 | maintaining an orderly house for the benefit of the whole family. |
0:56.8 | One thing in there, and we haven't talked about this, |
1:01.1 | but what I would call you call the M-O-M master organizer of mayhem, |
1:03.9 | maybe D-A-D is the dude at dinner. |
1:10.7 | How do dad show up to kind of augment what mom's trying to accomplish in the home becoming a place of Shalom. |
1:13.8 | I mean, we can either enhance that or detract from it. |
1:17.4 | Well, I have so many people that will say, you need an acronym for Dad. |
1:20.8 | So it's the diverter of disaster. |
1:23.6 | So there you go. |
1:24.8 | But, Dad's, I mean, again, it's a communication thing. I think it's important |
1:28.8 | to be communicating about like what are, you know, what is our shared goal? For me, I put a lot |
1:35.8 | of pressure on myself. Again, my husband came from a home that was perfect. In my, in my mind, |
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