You the Parent, Will be There
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
You, the parent, are the most important spiritual influence in your child's life. Danny opens up about how he and Heather brought different strengths to their children's spiritual development. Also, Jim Daly talks to Tim Shoemaker on how a mom and dad can share responsibilities as you teach them about God.
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| 0:00.0 | Your marriage can be healed. |
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| 0:12.4 | We'll go to this thing, but this is it. |
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| 0:16.3 | What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage. |
| 0:23.3 | Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com. |
| 0:32.6 | If you're wondering, who's the most important influence in my child's spiritual growth. It's not the |
| 0:39.0 | church. It's not even friends. It's you, mom or dad. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:44.2 | who leads our parenting team. And Danny, as is the case for many couples. You and Heather are |
| 0:51.5 | different. You have different skills and personalities and approaches. |
| 0:54.3 | How do you know, John? |
| 0:55.1 | Well, I've met Heather and I know you pretty well. |
| 0:57.7 | So what are some of the different things you brought when it came to, you know, fostering spiritual growth in your kids? |
| 1:03.4 | Because undoubtedly, you did things differently than Heather. |
| 1:06.5 | Undoubtedly, for sure. |
| 1:08.4 | I remember her saying all throughout our kids developmental years, she said, |
| 1:13.8 | did you pray about it? She would ask them consistently. She was so good about pointing back to prayer. |
| 1:20.1 | They'd ask something, hey, did you pray about it? Or she'd follow up on something. She was very consistent also with her quiet time. |
| 1:26.9 | I admired that. She'd sit down. |
| 1:29.2 | She would have that be an important time of her day, the quiet time. So it was great modeling |
| 1:34.9 | that she had with that. Then another one is she's just a very generous person financially. She |
| 1:40.8 | loves to be generous. And so that generosity is a good example for our kids. |
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