Parents today come in wanting tools for their kids more than anything and I think tools help us

But tools don't really transform us and it's our faith that transforms us and so we want to come at

Worry and anxiety from a really practical level that's going to help us in the moment and we want to come at it from a

foundational level of faith that's going to change us in the process. Welcome to family life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at family life today.

This is family life today. called No Perfect Parents. I'm having in my office.

Because.

Oh, really?

Yes.

Here's a question.

Do you ever read it?

Okay.

Like most people know.

I don't even think our kids read it and they wrote it you know but I mean so

often as parents we strive to be perfect not that we can but we want to be the best

we can be but at the end of the day there's no

perfect parents at all. It's funny Dave because I remember the stage of having

toddlers and babies and I would just I would lie down in bed every night and I would be tormented with my failures,

with my loss of compassion with yelling with trying to get a clean house and I

was failing at everything.

And I'm laying beside her like we're good everything's fine.

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