Truly Providing for Your Family
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
You want to provide for your kids' needs, but at the end of the day, what your child really wants is quality time with you. John and Danny share how they struggled to balance work with kids, and how they learned to make time for their families. Featuring guests Matt and Lisa Jacobson.
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| 0:00.0 | As a younger dad, it was pretty easy for me to get caught up with the responsibility of providing for my family. |
| 0:09.0 | We had one, two, three, four, then five, then six kids. I felt compelled to work work work but |
| 0:16.2 | providing for your family is a wonderful thing but what your kids really want is |
| 0:20.5 | you they want time with you I'm John Fuller joined by our Vice President of |
| 0:25.6 | parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family, Dr. Danny Wertan. Jim Daley and I talked to |
| 0:31.1 | Matt and Lisa Jacobson. They have a large family and they |
| 0:34.3 | shared a little bit about how a busy schedule can keep you from the really |
| 0:38.0 | important things of oh enjoying time with your kids. |
| 0:42.0 | Matt and Lisa welcome back to Focus. Thank you so much. enjoying time with your kids. |
| 0:42.8 | Matt and Lisa, welcome back to focus. |
| 0:44.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:45.2 | Good to be back. |
| 0:46.0 | Good to have you with us. |
| 0:47.8 | Now, I think we need to clarify up front |
| 0:49.9 | that you have experience in parenting, right? How many kids do you have experience in parenting right? How many kids do you have? We have eight and |
| 0:56.2 | you have how many of which? We have four and four we planned it that way. |
| 1:00.1 | Well how wonderful you can balance it so well You have a basketball team plus three substitutes. |
| 1:05.5 | Exactly. That's perfect. Almost a baseball team. You're a little short thing. |
| 1:09.2 | Hey, we're still working on it. No, we're not. |
| 1:11.3 | Oh, Jean and you would be fast. I love. |
| 1:13.4 | Oh, Jean and you would be fast-friendly to tell you. |
| 1:16.6 | But let's get into it with just the simple idea of a busy household. |
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