Tips for Building a Healthy Family (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 30 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. We've got to do it ourselves. I can't wait on my husband, Stephen, you do it |
| 1:06.9 | first, and then I will do it. He's a great husband, great dad, and he does take the lead |
| 1:12.4 | in a lot of things, but there are moments instead of blaming him, I need to look at Shannon. |
| 1:16.9 | Shannon, what do I need to do in this area? So I've got a DIY. Then as Dr. Chapman, |
| 1:22.0 | you're saying there, we've got a DIY together. And I like something else we need to, I think, |
| 1:27.0 | reiterate there is these are affordable |
| 1:29.4 | repairs. That's Dr. Shannon Warden describing why you may need a renovation project for your |
| 1:35.8 | marriage and your family. This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and today we're returning to a |
| 1:40.9 | conversation. We started last time with Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Warden. I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining us. John, I'm the last guy you want to talk to about remodeling. I'm so pathetic at this stuff. So I just, you know, not long ago learned what DIY is. Do it yourself. I literally had to ask a guy. It's okay. My wife actually. What does that mean? And she said, that means do it yourself. That's how pathetic I am. But, you know, there's so many great TV shows on now about remodeling and how to do it well. And they just keep us there. We want to see how it all finishes. |
| 2:13.1 | Doesn't say much about our lives, does it? But Gary Chapman and Shannon Warden have come up with a wonderful |
| 2:20.2 | concept. They describe some of the challenges that families are facing with selfishness, apathy, resentment. |
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