You Don't Have to Get It All Right
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, there are times when we all mess up. But the good news is that God's grace is there to pick us back up again, even when we fall. John and Danny share how God will meet us, even in our low moments as a parent.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so in raising your kids are there moments where you feel like I just blew it? |
| 0:08.0 | I mean, I remember our oldest, he was like four, four and a half he did some I'll just say some stupid little boy thing it wasn't bad |
| 0:19.2 | It wasn't you know ugly. It was just like why the world you do that and I looked at him I said what |
| 0:25.3 | were you thinking and he looked up with with these big eyes he just looked at me |
| 0:30.9 | like I don't know what I was thinking and I just totally blew that moment. What |
| 0:37.4 | am I doing asking a four and a half year old? What were you thinking? They're so physical. |
| 0:41.9 | They aren't thinking. They're just doing they're exploring things physically. I had to kind of recover from that and if my memory serves me well and I don't think I'm covering this up I went to my |
| 0:56.6 | knees and said I'm sorry I mean you weren't thinking it's okay just try to think |
| 1:01.4 | you know try those are moments where you have a chance for a |
| 1:06.6 | redo in your parenting and I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta who's just |
| 1:11.8 | smiling knowingly looking at me. |
| 1:15.1 | Like here's some more rope John. |
| 1:16.8 | So we'll get you into the show here, but first we're going to hear from author and blogger |
| 1:21.9 | and mom Heidi St St John who spoke with |
| 1:24.4 | Jim Daly and me about some of the ways she's learned to let go of perfectionism as a mom. |
| 1:31.1 | Heidi welcome to focus on the family. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:34.0 | It's good to have you. |
| 1:35.0 | Now you are this mom blogger, you've got a very successful blog, and you're talking to a lot of women from around the world. |
| 1:42.0 | What's a common thing that you're seeing? talking to a lot of women from around the world. |
| 1:42.8 | What's a common thing that you're seeing |
| 1:45.4 | that they are encountering in being a mom, |
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