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Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

When You and Your Kid Freak Out

Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, you try things as a parent that don't go as you'd planned. Danny shares with John about a time that happened in his parenting, and Ashley Willis talks with Jim Daly about some lessons she learned after a kayaking trip didn't go so well.

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0:00.0

Have you ever had an idea that as a parent seemed good at the moment, but then it turned

0:06.4

out to be not so good? I'm Jean Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up the focus

0:11.5

on the family parenting department, and Danny, I remember my second son when he was about 14, we went hunting in the backcountry

0:19.2

of Colorado and we went down this one four-wheel drive trail.

0:23.9

Quickly, it became apparent that it was an ice rink all the way down.

0:28.6

And at one point, I had my hands off the wheel

0:31.5

and my four-wheel drive SUV is just following the trail and I'm praying Jesus Jesus

0:37.4

just save us and we made it yeah we made it to the end we got down to the bottom and heart started to kind of come down and then I

0:45.6

realized we got to go back up and that was like this let's go but it was a little bit of a disconcerting moment

0:56.7

because there we are in the backcountry nobody knows where we are we're five

1:00.6

ten miles away from anything.

1:03.0

And we're just down at the bottom of this kind of ravine hidden by trees.

1:06.8

Could have been kind of dicey.

1:08.2

Now, I don't know if you've had any death-defying moments or serious moments,

1:12.3

but have you had a good idea as a parent and then you get kind of halfway through it and you think

1:16.2

Not such a good idea John all the ideas seem great at the moment right

1:21.6

John that's what we that's what we think. Now one of them, it's much more on the practical side.

1:26.8

I was thinking, hey, let's save some money by making our own kambucha.

1:30.3

Right. And you know, I love kambuja. I do, and you know that my wife does make her own that's

1:35.4

right and she does a great job but there are some biohazard potentials there

1:40.5

are so I got this barrel and I was thinking man. It's going to be fancy instead of having a jar

1:45.7

with that ugly looking scoby there. Yeah, and you put the yeah, so I did a barrel that had our name on it and like are we talking a 50

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