They See More Than Your Words
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Successful parenting isn't based on formulas, but it's also good to pray with your kids regularly. Justin Earley chats with Jim Daly about something he called a bedtime liturgy with his sons. Plus, Danny and John will encourage you to pay attention to your tone when teaching spiritual lessons to your children.
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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. |
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| 0:22.9 | today at Focus on thefamily.com slash impossible. That's Focus on thefamily.com |
| 0:28.5 | slash impossible. Well, Focus on the Family has been around for 49 years. It's incredible. |
| 0:39.3 | I mean, we're approaching 50 years old. We've been doing a lot of stuff for a long time to equip you as a parent now one of the things dr danni werta |
| 0:46.0 | you head up our parenting team one of the things i think people have this impression of is that there's a |
| 0:51.2 | formula that if i do x y and, I'm going to get this output. |
| 0:57.0 | And you can't approach parenting in any way, shape, or form with a formula outcome in mind, can you? |
| 1:04.9 | No. I mean, the only way you use a formula is with your infant, right, sometimes. |
| 1:09.2 | That's good. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for reminding me that I oversee parenting, John. |
| 1:12.6 | That was great. |
| 1:13.1 | Well, I'm letting the listener be reminded of that. |
| 1:15.9 | That's funny. |
| 1:16.7 | So, John, there is, there's no formula to parenting other than really having a very solid |
| 1:25.3 | relationship with Christ, right? |
| 1:27.0 | That's the one thing. And having a regular prayer life. |
| 1:31.3 | And we get asked, how often should I be praying with my kids? How often should I be reading |
| 1:35.1 | scripture? And really, it's about as much as you can. If you can do it daily, that's fantastic. |
| 1:41.5 | And if you can do it weekly, that's great. That's a good start. |
| 1:46.3 | The more you do it, you'll notice that the more you're connected to Christ, and the more that |
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