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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

What Are You Dreaming for Your Kids?

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What did you dream your child would become when he or she was little? John and Danny discuss some of the aspirations their kids had growing up. Plus, Jim Daly and Dr. Kathy Koch share about showing your child unconditional love, even when they don't accomplish something you wanted them to.

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0:00.0

I've got three beautiful daughters. They're all adults now and when they were younger each one of them seemed to excel at art and so I thought well maybe maybe they'll become an artist and I didn't I wasn't thinking

0:14.3

like Rembrandt or something I was thinking of you know in the commercial world or

0:17.8

or maybe just for for pure pleasure I don't think any of them still draw very much and I've had to kind of realize oh over time

0:27.4

interests and abilities and skills change

0:31.1

I'm John Fuller along with our vice president of parenting Dr. Danny

0:34.6

where to and Danny I guess what I'm clumsily trying to get to is we have aspirations

0:39.3

for our children. Maybe we have high aspirations more than a starving artist. We got to deal with those

0:44.7

aspirations because they they don't always in fact I'm guessing they typically don't

0:48.9

turn out the way we think. Right yeah I remember my son got into little league and was playing baseball and he decided at around six or seven.

0:58.0

He said, Dad, I'm going to be a catcher for the Yankees. And he was good. He did a really good job. He was, the hand-eye coordination was fantastic. He was a great hitter, good baseball player.

1:09.0

And again, he's six. Maybe, yeah, that's going, maybe he could, maybe he could do it. Maybe this is a great dream. Let's explore it. He retired by nine. He had a good retirement party.

1:20.0

Baseball is hard on the body. It's such a long season. He almost made it to the Yankees. It was close. But then he decided to play basketball and he had talked about being an engineer someday. And I was going, oh man, an engineer, I totally see that, math mind, well he wants to be a chiropractor.

1:35.8

Now, and then that's the latest thing. That's the latest thing. That's where he's headed.

1:39.1

But then my daughter, she, incredible artist,

1:43.0

incredible singer, and things changed here and there.

1:47.0

And I pictured her being this amazing artist and potentially a singer.

1:51.0

She did some things for the church. I was going, oh my goodness, maybe she could do a little CD or something, and back

1:56.8

then it was a CD, right?

1:59.0

And now it's streaming, but I really had these pictures of what they were going to be doing and they're not

2:04.4

doing either, any of those.

2:06.6

Just maybe just for fun, right at this point.

2:08.8

She wants to be...

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