We're honored to be joined by author and speaker Paul Trip and he joins us one last time.

Paul, as a parent, I think of parenting as painting.

Each day I put one dab of paint on a canvas.

I hope it's the right color.

I hope it's in the right spot.

But parenting brings with it a lot of uncertainty and insecurity and self-doubt.

As a parent with experience, what would you say is the goal of day in and day out parenting?

If I would would say, this is big deal parenting to be two things.

The first one is authority.

Children must early understand that they've been born into a world of authority and they're

not yet.

The sooner a child submits to that, the more blessed his life is going to be.

My children don't belong to me.

They belong to God.

He's the ultimate owner and authority.

That means that I'm a representative and ambassador of the authority of God.

I'm the tone of God's voice as a parent.

I'm the look on his face.

I'm the touch of his hand.

This will make you weaken your knees.

Here's what this means.

It means every time I exercise authority in the lives of my children, in all those mundane

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