Ways You Can Have Fun
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, it's good to have fun with your children. Even if you're not the naturally, fun-loving type, John and Danny will give some ideas for how you can have a good time with your kids. Featuring Dr. Kevin Leman and Jean Daly.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the ways that we had fun was to be physical. Back when my children were |
| 0:07.8 | younger and especially during the winter we had to do some physical activity to |
| 0:12.2 | burn off some calories and quiet the |
| 0:14.5 | tribe down. So we had a game I made up called Get Dad off the sofa. I would |
| 0:20.2 | lay on the sofa and their job as little kids were to pry me off the sofa and I would do it in such a way that I would make sure to flex just as they were applying pressure like to my legs. I flex and they go tumbling down on the |
| 0:34.1 | floor they loved it one time I got a black eye from one of the kids who was a little |
| 0:38.5 | rambunctious but it was great fun I think they would tell you now as adults that that was a pretty fun |
| 0:43.8 | little game that we had. Now there are moments for you as a mom or a dad to laugh and |
| 0:48.2 | have a good time with your kids. We're going to talk about that today. I'm John |
| 0:52.1 | Fuller in the studio with Dr Danny Werta. |
| 0:54.0 | He's in charge of our parenting department |
| 0:56.0 | and Danny, maybe there was a different game that you made up or played, |
| 1:00.0 | but I know you've had a lot of fun moments with your kids |
| 1:03.6 | Alex and Lexi. Yes and John do your kids still play push that off the sofa? There's a |
| 1:09.2 | point at which I give up all physical competitions with my children as they got older as I got |
| 1:15.3 | really aware that I could get hurt beyond a black eye I think we we transition to |
| 1:20.6 | things like oh checkers or Scrabble. Yeah one of the unique ones in our home was |
| 1:26.0 | swinging in the blanket when they were younger. Swinging in the blanket they were young |
| 1:30.3 | don't do this don't try this at home This is a focus on the family endorsing this. |
| 1:34.0 | They would lay inside the blanket. |
| 1:37.0 | They'd be wrapped into the blanket and then I would swing them around, almost like it was a roller coaster. |
| 1:42.0 | Swing them up and down. I'd spin around in the room. |
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