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This ad from Coca-Cola Argentina captures the contradictory nature of parenting better than anything I’ve seen in a long time.
It also does a marvelous job of capturing the splendor of marriage and raising children.
Let’s face it. Parenting can certainly play to the extremes. In one Facebook status update a mom can share about her challenging day homeschooling but two hours later post a picture of her kids with a caption suggesting parenting is the most rewarding thing she’s ever done.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: kids, parenting, pop culture by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Being single during the holidays is the stuff movies, blog posts and TV show plot lines are made of. While they’re usually making light of how “awkward” things are for singles during Christmas, others try to look on the bright side of things.
I’m not belittling the importance of the topic. Our own outreach for single adults, Boundless, has a plethora of resources addressing the issue – and for good reason. God created us for community and companionship.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, faith, marriage, parenting, relationships by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
For more than 35 years now, Focus on the Family has been sharing the wonderful truth about God’s design for family. This time, we’re doing it on the big screen.
Again and again, culture tries to deconstruct, discredit and dismiss God’s design for family. That’s why in our first feature-length film, “Irreplaceable,” host Tim Sisarich (who heads up Focus on the Family New Zealand) will go on a journey to try and figure out who has it right: God, or culture?
Topics: Family and Home Tags: church, entertainment, faith by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
It’s an innocent question many moms have heard from their young sons: “Will you marry me, Mommy?”
It’s a question that usually inspires an “aww” and maybe a hidden smile. The mom’s heart swells with gratitude. She is loved by her son.
However, that question also underscores a fact – little boys are born knowing nothing about marriage. Rather, it’s up to their moms and dads to teach them everything about that sacred institution – including what God’s plan for marriage is.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: broadcast, marriage, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I recently had the opportunity to write a piece for The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, a group dedicated to engaging the culture and speaking to issues in the public square.
The ERLC is led by Dr. Russell Moore, who recently guest blogged for me.
If you want to read my post, “Five Things Christians Can Learn from Adoption” – a piece that captures the lessons all of us at Focus have learned from our Wait No More program – you can do so by clicking here.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, faith, kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Ralphie Parker wanted just one thing for Christmas:
“An official Red Ryder, carbine-action, two-hundred-shot, range-model air rifle.”
Fans of the perennial Yuletide favorite “A Christmas Story” know the plot like the back of their hand. Many even recite the lines from memory.
Of course, Ralphie’s quest is repeatedly met with a warning and a charge:
“You’ll shoot your eye out!”
If you ask me, the film works and has aged so well because it taps into the spirit and desires of boyhood.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
This 39-second clip demonstrates the need for engaged dads more than a thousand research papers ever could.
In 1998, the Jenny Jones Show aired an episode titled “Boot Camp my Pre-Teen” featuring a former Marine trying to shape up seemingly incorrigible boys.
The show takes an unexpected twist, however, when the drill sergeant asks a 10-year-old a question:
“Do you want me to be your daddy for the next eight years, son?”
Undoubtedly, the tough Marine thinks the idea will scare the child.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: discipline, kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Just a few miles to the west of the Focus campus stands one of the premier ministries in all of Christendom. There, in the shadow of the red rocks of the Garden of the Gods park is headquartered the Navigators, an international, interdenominational organization committed “to know Christ and Make Him Known.”
Jim Downing, a long-time member of the Navs and a personal friend of their founder, Dawson Trotman, continues to serve the ministry as a volunteer on the collegiate team.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. Today I want to share with you my November newsletter.
Thank you for your support—it’s one of the things I’m grateful for today!
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It’s November, and that means Thanksgiving and—FOOTBALL! That word might not resonate with all of you, but for many families, the act of sitting back in a recliner to watch a game on Thanksgiving afternoon is as much a tradition as the turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, kids, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Amanda was almost 18 and about to “age out” of the foster care system.
But while our nation’s laws consider someone who’s 18 to be an adult, you and I know there’s still a lot of growing up left to do at that age. Even young adults need a mom and a dad.
For example, Amanda still yearned for a mother’s love to soothe her on the bad days and share the joy with her on the good ones.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, faith by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.Home
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