Tips for Building a Healthy Family (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Shannon Warden compare family life to renovating a home — you need a good “blueprint” or plan for how you want your family to grow, and a solid foundation of godly character traits like kindness, love, forgiveness, building trust, building connection, and having fun together. Parents and kids need to be “all in” and working as a team to instill these traits into their relationships. Dr. Chapman also talks about the 5 Love Languages, and Dr. Warden shares several stories about parenting her own children.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes you feel crazy in love with your spouse. |
| 0:05.2 | Other times your spouse might drive you crazy. |
| 0:08.2 | And sometimes it's both all at once. |
| 0:11.5 | Marriage is a wild ride, but it's a beautiful grand adventure as well. |
| 0:16.3 | So navigate all the ups and downs and in-betweens with crazy little thing called marriage, a podcast |
| 0:21.8 | from Focus on the Family. I'm Erin Smalley, and I co-host the podcast with my husband, Dr. Greg |
| 0:28.4 | Smalley. We sit down with amazing guests to talk about all things marriage, like how do we |
| 0:34.1 | stay connected or how do we continue growing as individuals or as a couple? |
| 0:39.3 | Each episode will help you tackle problems you may be facing or just help you make your relationship even sweeter. |
| 0:46.0 | Listen to crazy little thing called marriage and other podcasts from Focus on the Family at FocusOnthefamily.com slash podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | That's FocusOnThe family.com slash podcast. That's focus on the family.com |
| 0:56.6 | slash podcast. Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daily will explore something a bit |
| 1:10.2 | unusual, a do-it-yourself family building project. |
| 1:44.4 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. That's right, John. You know, these home improvement shows are very popular today. Have you seen them? You can't avoid them. They're everywhere. I'm trying to avoid them. I'm in my dentist office and they're on. Right. Fixing up a place, you know, plumbing, it scares the daylight out of me. Man, I'm telling you what. I just can't do that stuff very well. Usually, Gene ends up showing me how to do it. It's very embarrassing to say on national radio. I'm trying. Duck tape is our savior in the house. Duck tape works great. You just put it everywhere. But those home improvement shows are very popular. And people love the idea of that perfect home right the fixer upper that looks just right putting all |
| 1:49.2 | the pieces together but it's intimidating like i said when it comes to family improvement i'm all in |
| 1:55.6 | that's what we focus on the family is about we want to build strong and healthy families it's what |
| 2:00.6 | we're trying to do each and every day here at focus on the family and that's We want to build strong and healthy families. It's what we're trying to do |
| 2:01.2 | each and every day here at Focus on the Family. And that's why I'm thrilled about our special |
| 2:05.8 | guests who will help you today tackle this topic of home improvement. Dr. Gary Chapman is here. |
| 2:12.1 | He's been on this broadcast many times before. He's an award-winning author and speaker, |
| 2:17.2 | a counselor and radio host, and is probably |
| 2:19.5 | best known for his series of books, addressing the five love languages concept. And also with us, |
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