The Spiritual Benefits of Parenting
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Parenting can stretch you spiritually and cause you to rely on God. John and Danny discuss some of the hidden benefits of having children.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at focus on the family.com |
| 0:08.7 | slash parenting podcast. Recently I saw an article about the hidden benefits of having kids. |
| 0:15.0 | Children can help you stay active, they can lower your blood pressure, even make you happier. |
| 0:21.0 | But the author did leave out one key category and that is the |
| 0:24.2 | spiritual benefits of having kids. Children can make you really aware of your |
| 0:29.5 | own selfishness and help you rely on God. I'm John Fuller joined by Danny Werta. He's the head of our |
| 0:36.0 | parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family. We'll have some insights |
| 0:40.0 | from Danny in a moment, but first let's go ahead and listen to a conversation that Jim |
| 0:43.7 | Daly and I had with Dr. Greg Smalley, his wife Aaron, and author Suzanne Goslin. |
| 0:49.9 | They described how having kids helped stretch them spiritually. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey, Suzanne, let me ask you though with that whiplash that you may have felt. |
| 0:58.0 | You know, you're working here at Focusing the family, you know, successful professional woman. |
| 1:04.0 | So many women are in this kind of situation where they want to have a child, they're planning |
| 1:09.0 | to have a child, and it happens, and now you've got to transition from the workplace into a different |
| 1:17.2 | modality which is becoming a mom some moms will choose to stay home some moms may |
| 1:22.0 | still have to work. Talk about that moment |
| 1:26.2 | when you're realizing this is a new era. Yes, I think it was my dream to get married and have children and stay home with my children. |
| 1:37.0 | However, I was single throughout my 20s and it just seemed like the guy wasn't coming along and that was frustrating and so when I |
| 1:43.8 | did meet Kevin and we got married and and then we found out we were expecting it |
| 1:48.1 | was like all my dreams were coming true and I was in my early 30s So I was really excited about the opportunity to be able to stay home |
| 1:56.3 | and you know do a little freelance writing and editing, keep my creative juices flowing. |
| 2:01.3 | But I think it really hit me several months in that this is really different |
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