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Episode 162 | Four Important Things Parents Need to Know to Raise Kids - Part 1

• Travis Rosinger and Dawn Rosinger

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Parenting is one of the most rewarding and at the same time one of the most defeating experiences. Parents have their work cut out for them but the pay off is the enjoyment that comes from these amazing children God has entrusted to them. There is one problem though. Once your kids are gone, you can't go back. That is why doing the right things now is so crucial to their lives then.

Join hosts Travis and Dawn Rosinger for this two-part series on Parenting as they share four things parents need to know to raise kids. They get  vulnerable sharing their own failures in parenting along with key truths of wisdom for parents who are in the thick of raising humans. Moms and dad's, be sure to check this one out!! Consider sharing it with a friend who is a parent as well!!

Travis and Dawn Rosinger are the Loving The Fight Marriage Podcast Hosts and Authors of the books, Verbalosity - 7 Steps to a Verbally Generous and More Fulfilling Marriage and their newest book, Gripping -  What Matters Most | A Life and Relationships That Hold on to You

For more information about Travis and Dawn Rosinger go to Loving The Fight

Dawn Rosinger:

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Loving the Fight Marriage podcast. My name is Dawn and I'm sitting here with my husband and also my co-host, travis.

Travis Rosinger:

Yes, we're back and we're so glad to be hanging out with you guys. We are just in awe of the fact that you are tuning in, but also that you are wanting to make your life and yourself better. That's important it is. That's a huge part of what this podcast is about. We want ourselves, Travis and Dawn, to get better, but we want to also do everything that we can to encourage you.

Dawn Rosinger:

Absolutely, because every day is a learning experience, right.

Travis Rosinger:

It really is. I have to say there's new things Like new stuff.

Dawn Rosinger:

Yep, well, we are just coming off of an awesome weekend that we had with our kids and our grandkids. We had three days full of just quality time. They came to our house and spent three days with us. We're celebrating the holidays two holidays actually Thanksgiving and Christmas all within one day of each other.

Travis Rosinger:

How did we do that? That's crazy.

Dawn Rosinger:

It was a blast, but it was just fun having the Christmas tree up and the kids. We did this actually right after Thanksgiving, so kind of a weird timing but so much fun.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, it was a blast All that time with our kids, our adult children, and then them having their kids with them. Boy, it really got us thinking a lot about parents and parenting and how that impacts marriage Absolutely and the relationship between a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, and so we have a lot of respect for parents. We do.

Dawn Rosinger:

You know what I have to say really quick. One of my best guess, my favorite things in the world is just being a mom. I love being a mom. I love having grandkids. Man, it's just an incredible thing. But being a parent and obviously being a mom and a dad really affects marriage, right.

Dawn Rosinger:

Oh man, it's just such an important part, but everything that we do as parents really affects us in our marriage. Well, recently I read the story in the news and it was just talking about different things that parents do and how much we invest into our kids. Well, this news article went on to say that, as parents, you will, on average, change between three to 5,000 diapers per child by the time that they are fully potty drained. Like three to 5,000.

Travis Rosinger:

Oh my gosh, that's a lot of poop. Let's just be honest, right, that's so many dirty diapers.

Dawn Rosinger:

Moms and dads, you guys are killing it out there, so not only will you change a lot of diapers, parents, especially parents of younger kids, you will lose an average of three hours of sleep per night, or a total of 133 nights of sleep by the time your baby turns one. So let's say you have two, three, four, five kids. That's a lot of nights of sleep that you are going to miss out on.

Travis Rosinger:

No wonder there's so many guys out there walking around that are bald and wives that are stressed out of their minds.

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, not only are you going to lose sleep, but, parents, you are going to get into 2,000 and 184 arguments with your kids every year. That's yearly, I mean. And then I'm like, wait, well again, what if you have two, three, four, five kids?

Travis Rosinger:

Tons of pushback.

Dawn Rosinger:

That's a lot of arguments, but this is just a huge number that this article talked about. The cost that you will pay to raise a child from birth to age 18 is 237,480. That's a lot of money. Again, times that by how many kids that you have. That's a lot of commitment and hard work, but I wouldn't trade it for anything Like.

Dawn Rosinger:

I said being a parent was one of the best things that we got to do and it was so fun to be able to do that Travis with you together as we co-parented our kids.

Travis Rosinger:

Oh yeah, it was a lot of fun, but it was kind of like flying an airplane blindfolded, Like we're either gonna stay up in the air or we're gonna come crashing down and it's gonna be one big explosion.

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, honestly, I think, parents, you have one of the most difficult jobs on the planet and also one of the most rewarding jobs on the planet. There's so many rewards that come with parenting, but God obviously believes in you. He gave you the gift of life in this child and the ability to watch over and nurture a child who becomes a teenager and eventually they become an adult who eventually has kids of their own.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, these are humans. Mom and dads aren't growing corn, it's not like some garden out in their backyard, or animals that are only gonna live like 10 years.

Dawn Rosinger:

These are humans that live like 80 years and have the ability to have generations of offspring. Oh my gosh.

Travis Rosinger:

Well, don, I remember back when you and I first got married, we got pregnant really quickly and then we went to give birth and I just remember you went into a labor camp and you had labor, had contractions. I drove you to the hospital and it was a really fun experience. Of course, there's pain. You're giving birth. It was probably more fun for you than it was for me at that moment it probably was, but we rolled in and we got to go back then one of those shiny suburban kind of newer hospitals.

Dawn Rosinger:

Oh, we had a first class hospital. It was awesome. It was incredible.

Travis Rosinger:

Right in the Twin Cities Minneapolis area, and so we rolled into this place and right away they just started waiting on us, hand and foot. And they like the nurses were like hey, you need a glass of water, here's a pillow. They had a comfy couch there for me. There was free TV, you know loads of snacks. They would bring you all these meals. They'd give me meals as well, and I mean we were just kind of living it up in between. You know, these contractions.

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, in between the contractions, yeah, but it was. You again were living it up more it was a posh place.

Travis Rosinger:

I mean, it was beautiful. And then you went to give birth, don, and the birth went really, really well and they just continued to spoil us. I remember at one point a nurse looked at me and she's like hey, you see that room right across the hall from from your hospital room here. She's like that is loaded with tons of snacks and free food for all of the expecting parents. Go raid the place as often as you want, and it was. It was so fun. So I did. As you can tell I'm talking about it more than you are, but like I went in there and scooped up so much food. But we guys, we were just a couple blue collar kids Sitting in this hospital. You know, we just gave birth. They're treating us like royalty and we feel like we're at an all inclusive.

Dawn Rosinger:

We've never been on all inclusive, but here you go.

Travis Rosinger:

We're like is this the Caribbean? Are we on an island somewhere? I mean, we are being treated so, so well. Well, everything was going incredibly well until they suddenly hit the brakes. I could hear the screeching of the of the tires on the road. When they said all right, your time's up, you got to go home. And I looked at him. I kind of got whiplash. I looked at him and I was like hold on a second. You haven't given us like a class on parenting, you. You haven't set up an on the job. You know at home instruction time. You know to teach us how to be parents.

Dawn Rosinger:

And you didn't give us a parenting manual, manual with instructions.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, now you're going to send us home with this human and for a moment I thought this can't be legal, like they don't have a right to send us home with a real human being.

Dawn Rosinger:

Did they know who we were? Yeah, we were, we were.

Travis Rosinger:

We were so young and had just finished being teenagers ourselves and now we're suddenly going to be raising kids. Well, you know, honestly, we survived and our two kids survived on. You just said a second ago how we had Thanksgiving and Christmas with our kids. So obviously they're alive, they've had kids and we're so grateful for the family that God has given us. And as crazy as it sounds to be thrown into raising a child without a manual or a class or on the job training, you know, honestly, moms and dads out there, I actually think that that's the way that God intends it to be, and here's why the ability to raise a child was already built within you. You don't need a manual, it's already there. Now I think back to when I was a kid. Don, I want to hear your take on this, but remember back when we were kids, there were like only two ways to raise a kid. There were the parents that spank their kids and the parents that would ground their kids.

Dawn Rosinger:

That's true. Two ways to their bedrooms right.

Travis Rosinger:

And I was always jealous of the kids that got grounded where all the toys were at in their bedrooms.

Dawn Rosinger:

So obviously I know what type of host that you were raised in. It was not the home that had the toys, it was not. You got to go and relax, it was not always fun.

Travis Rosinger:

It worked, but it was not always fun. But here's, here's my point. Moms and dads, those of you that are listening you are in a world that doesn't just have two styles of parenting, like it was back when I was a kid and Don was a kid man. There are millions and millions of different ideas and ways that people are pushing on you. Even as you listen to this, you're probably thinking of oh, I heard this person say I should be this kind of parent or that kind of parent.

Dawn Rosinger:

It's something like sleep training, like that's a new concept, that's the type of parenting that you have. So, you know, with your kids, when it comes to sleeping, your sleep training them like, oh, that's interesting yeah.

Travis Rosinger:

And some of it's good and some of it's like huh, where did this come from? I'm not sure, like, if I should be using it or not. I even think of that. There was an influencer this summer who had millions of followers on, you know, youtube and this lady ended up getting arrested.

Dawn Rosinger:

Yeah, I've actually. I remember seeing that her on the news. I was shocked.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, she was doing a video, a vlog, of you know how to raise children and do it right. And they ended up arresting her because her kids were tied up and they had cuts and open wounds and they were trying to escape from their mom to get out of the house to survive.

Dawn Rosinger:

Yeah, and it's crazy because she had, like, millions of followers.

Travis Rosinger:

She did so many and you know, here are parents trying to learn from her and then she's hurting her kids. Yeah, she's a horrible parent, not the kind of person you want to be learning from. So, moms and dads, in this world of confusion about how to raise your kids, it's really hard to know what the right way is. I mean, raising your kids has so much less to do with your kids and way more to do with you as parents. Not that your kids aren't important, but, moms and dads, you are so important in your marriage but especially, too, with your kids. Our society, of course, is going to tell you that the right way to raise a kid or a child, a teenager, is to just let them decide and you know what, get behind that, support them in that or let them find their own truth and also support that or their own identity and reinforce that. But we know that that won't work. It doesn't work. It's only going to end in failure.

Dawn Rosinger:

So why are we talking about parenting when this is a marriage podcast? We're talking about it because it has everything to do with marriage.

Travis Rosinger:

Parenting affects your marriage and vice versa, marriage affects your parenting it really does, and couples got to be on the same page with how they raise their kids and understanding the value of parenthood or the impact of being parents and what that does to your children.

Dawn Rosinger:

We recently had an opportunity to just encourage and challenge parents in a few different settings and there was a question that we got and it was honestly. It was about how do you model a healthy relationship in a marriage for your kids, and that was such a relevant question and, man, the answers that came in were phenomenal. But it's so important. Your kids are watching you model your marriage and they're also watching your parenting style. So today and next week, we're just going to talk about parenting and we're going to give you four foundational principles that we believe God wants you to be aware of and to live by as parents. The first principle is this God chose you and trusts you to be the number one spiritual influence in your child's life. He didn't choose Cocoa Melon and he didn't choose Taylor Swift. He chose you. You're the ultimate influencer in your kids life and I think that's such a concept that we have to grasp. Like you, god picked you.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, and we've got to remember too, we're not just raising kids, we're raising adults. I mean, after all, these little humans that run around our house, I mean, they're only kids for a small portion of their life, most of their lives, they're adults. I know absolutely, and really it's just this idea of being a strong spiritual influence in these future adult's lives.

Dawn Rosinger:

You know, when your child was born, your identity forever changed and you instantly became a leader to another person who has a body, a mind and a spirit, a person who will live for eternity either close to God in heaven or a person who will live eternally separated from God. I don't like to necessarily say that we don't want to talk about that all the time, but it's true. It's a big leadership responsibility. Parents, you are leaders. You're leaders of your kids.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, and there's some really great examples of parents who are leaders in the Bible. I mean, I immediately think of Hannah in the Old Testament, a mom who couldn't get pregnant. She finally does. And what does she do? She brings her son Samuel, the future High Priest of Israel, to the temple. She dedicates him to God. I think of Mary and Joseph in the New Testament, the parents of Jesus, and how, on the eighth day of Jesus' life, I mean, he's just this little baby they bring him to the temple and they dedicate him to God. You know.

Dawn Rosinger:

These are really great examples because they embrace their identity as spiritual leaders of their children, of these eternal beings. They brought their children to God. Parents, your spiritual mission is to bring your children to God. I know some of you may think you know, wait, how can I be the spiritual leader for my kids that God wants me to be when I just blow it all the time? And you know what I think that of myself and I think back to you know different times as when our kids were, you know, growing up that man, I blew it.

Dawn Rosinger:

But parents, you are the absolute best one to lead your children spiritually. Yes, you might blow it. No, not that you might. You will blow it. You might feel like a failure at times, but guess what? God chose you anyways. He knew that you would blow it, that you would fail, but you were handpicked by God for this. He knew what he was doing when he gave you your kids and he knew what he was doing when he gave us our two kids. I mean, we were young, we didn't have a lot of experience, but God still chose us.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, I think back to a time that I blew it. My son, our son Don, was 15 and he had landed a spot on the adult church band and I was a pastor at this senior pastor at this church, and he was hanging out with the adults and they were about ready to do band practice and I had been had a long day was was there too, way too late and I was kind of walking through the auditorium and he said something to me and it kind of came out when he sideways because he kind of said it disrespectfully.

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, he was 15, right.

Travis Rosinger:

Imagine what that tone was Kind of his job, those 2000 arguments every year, but yeah, but I blew it by making the mistake of giving it back to him. And once I did I mean I didn't yell, but I was kind of rude back to him out loud. Then I looked over and I saw all those adults and I was like, oh my gosh, I just humiliated my son in front of all these people he looks up to. He's learning from him. So I had to go back to every single one of those adults and I apologized. Then I went to my son I said look, I'm so sorry, I embarrassed you, I blew it. I asked all those people for forgiveness. Would you forgive me? And again, at that moment, when I kind of went off on them, you know, I realized that I blew it because we praise in public and we correct in private. But he was kind enough to forgive me. And as bad of a dad as I was in that moment, guess what? Like you were saying, don God chose me, he chose us to be parents.

Dawn Rosinger:

He did Yep Even though we had no manual and we have many stories about how we blew it. Yeah, lots.

Travis Rosinger:

And he chooses imperfect people parents to do some of his best work. So, moms and dads, if you're at all discouraged right now, don't be. God is with you.

Dawn Rosinger:

You know you're being the most important spiritual leader in your kids' lives is exactly the way God views you. So I just have to ask you right now is that how you view yourself? Do you view yourself as the most important spiritual leader? Well, you should.

Dawn Rosinger:

Your children learn the most about God from watching your life, both the good and the bad. That's why we parents are given very specific instructions in the Bible on how to live in front of our children. In Deuteronomy 6, 4, it says this Listen, o Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone, and you must love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength, and you must commit yourselves whole heartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Those words are so important because Jesus actually says them again in the New Testament. But this was written this Deuteronomy 6,. It was written to parents, because when you love God, your children, they're going to know it. Loving God is probably the most important and powerful thing you could ever do to positively impact your kids throughout their lives.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, you know something that happened to us and I don't know how it did, but just by it just kind of unfolded. I think we were about maybe six months into parenting, you know, with our son, and one night I just went to put him to bed and I sang Jesus loves me with him. And then the next night came and I sang it again, and then I sang it again, and then I sang it again. Yeah, and it was just like three years ago when our son had his first child. All of a sudden he's putting our grandson to bed and in the distance we could hear him singing Jesus loves me with our grandson and it just melted our heart in that moment, while you hear that powerful song, and then you're him singing over our grandson.

Travis Rosinger:

It was awesome and I was like, well, wait a second, how'd that happen? I mean, I didn't tell him he needed to do that with his son, I didn't teach him, you got to do this. We just sang it together as a worship song to God. Even though it's written, I think, for little kids like we would just worship God every night. And so he started passing that on to his kid. And now our daughter has two little girls, and one of them, sweet little Lenora. She's about three years old and so she has discovered this song Jesus loves me, I'm assuming from her mom singing it to her or dad every night. But it's kind of funny. We'll be in the car driving across our city, our metro area, and she knows all the words to the song Jesus loves me, but she doesn't know how to say the name of the song. She just says more Jesus, more Jesus, and we know that means Jesus loves me Not only a little bit.

Dawn Rosinger:

She freaks out.

Travis Rosinger:

She's like more Jesus, more Jesus, more Jesus she screams and the minute we turn it on it's like she gets really quiet and she starts singing the song and she's like caught up into somewhere else, like she loves it. And then she's figured out there's this lady named Alexa who will sing it to her, and so she'll scream at Alexa in our home and say, alexa, more Jesus, more Jesus. The whole point of why we're telling you this story is that, moms and dads, the love that you have for God in your life, it's got a ripple effect as parents. It's gonna ripple effect not only into your kids' lives, but also into your grandkids' lives. And I think we forget sometimes that we're actually not just raising our kids, we're raising the parents of our grandkids.

Dawn Rosinger:

Moms and dads, we want you to know that God is looking to you, to embrace this responsibility and fully accept your spiritual role and identity. Again, this passage in Deuteronomy is written to parents and we know this because it goes on to say this in verse seven Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you're going to bed and when you're getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Again, just to hear that. Repeat them again and again to your children. But you know what? There is a warning If you don't spiritually lead your children, someone else or something well, someone else will take that place, will step in and raise your child for you.

Dawn Rosinger:

We see that over and over again right now.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, it's so important to remember that, moms and dads, because I think that evil is waiting for us to hold back in our marriages, but especially to in our parenting, and it's gonna jump in there and it's gonna try to parent our kids when we're like relaxing and not taking it seriously enough.

Dawn Rosinger:

You know, a quote that really inspires me is from Lindsay Bell, and she says this the goal of parenting isn't to create perfect kids. It's to point our kids to the perfect God. I love that. God is the perfect God. We cannot, as parents, be perfect, so our goal is to point our kids to a perfect God. There's so much power in your example parents, moms and dads, and the life that you live in front of your kids. Again, they're watching you. You have the seat right next to them.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, clear example of parents and your power to influence is a story that I'm reminded of from Pastor Robert Medoux. He's down at a church called Dallas Social in the Dallas, fort Worth, texas area, but he tells the story of a dog, a police dog, that gets into a car accident, in a squad car, and it immediately loses the use of its back legs. But this dog is pregnant, it's got a litter of puppies, and so the dog lives, but it has to drag its back legs. But yet then it goes on a couple of days later after the accident and it gives birth to this litter of puppies, and so the puppies seem healthy. You know, everything's going great, but after a few days the people that are there with the dog and the puppies suddenly start to realize something really odd. Everybody kind of gathers around, they look over at these puppies and they notice that the puppies are walking with only their front legs and they're dragging the backs of their legs.

Travis Rosinger:

Parents, that needs to make us kind of question ourselves and look at ourselves. Are you the parent that's walking with only two legs? Spiritually, where are you at with God? How are you leading yourself? How are you helping to lead your marriage spiritually? And then, what kind of an impact does that have on your kids? Just like that dog Again, parents, your kids are watching you.

Dawn Rosinger:

I sure love that story, man. That's a great physical picture If we think of this dog just kind of walking on the front legs, dragging the back legs, and then the puppies following the exact example, even though they have four legs. That can work and that's great because, honestly, I feel like sometimes our kids are watching us and they're going to act to respond the same exact way that we do. What a great picture, what a cool story.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, and parents, we're talking about our spiritual influence, how God is using you to impact your kids, and so the second thing that we want to give you today, as you listen to this podcast, the second principle God wants you to be aware of and to live by, is this God chose you to speak words that give life and avoid words that bring death. In other words, you're his mouthpiece to your kids. Your words matter. I remember quite a few years ago, when our kids were elementary age, we had just bought a house. We were finishing the basement. I was the lead pastor, senior pastor at a church. I was finishing my master's degree.

Travis Rosinger:

Wow, we had so much going on in our lives. Very busy season of life, crazy busy season, don. You were doing almost everything around the house, even mowing the lawn. But I remember we got away for a week of vacation. I was so excited. I thought, okay, this is our moment with our young kids to be able to just rest, relax, laugh and make memories together. And so we were driving. It was about four and a half hours to our destination, but the problem was, the closer we got to where we were going to vacation it was Grand Marais, minnesota the closer we got, the more kids were arguing in the backseat.

Dawn Rosinger:

They were at the age where they were just on each other all the time.

Travis Rosinger:

They were going back and forth, yes, and so they finally just hit a fever pitch of noise and intensity, and we got really close to the town and then I lost it. I just wore thin and I just said, will you shut up, shut up. But in that moment I dropped the F-bomb and I knew I was oh, an awful dad. I had so screwed up.

Dawn Rosinger:

I know in that moment everyone was just silent. I mean, it stopped the fighting. But I think we were just shocked because you weren't the type of person ever to cuss and you don't cuss. That's just not a part of who you are. But in that moment, man, we just took notice and your face just dropped. Yeah.

Travis Rosinger:

I. It was horrible. I mean, I had to immediately apologize, don to you, to the kids, and own the fact that I'd gotten angry and I said this terrible word. But you know what? The worst part wasn't having to own that. The worst part was setting the wrong example and risking our kids, who were in the backseat, remembering a dad who brought words of death to the family and not words of life. And so from then on I decided to be even more careful with my words.

Travis Rosinger:

And I think of there's a parent that I just talked about a little bit ago in the Old Testament, hannah, that I had mentioned, and she was so badly wanting to have a baby for her and her husband. And so one day she's at the temple. She says to God you know, all these women around her are having kids. And she says to God God, would you please give me a child, and if you do, I'll dedicate him back to the Lord. And that was her son, samuel. God gave her a child. She was pregnant, and then she did, she gave him back to the Lord.

Travis Rosinger:

And here's what it says in 1 Samuel, chapter one, verse 24. It says after he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with the three-year-old bull an ephah of flour and a skin of wine and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. When the bull had been sacrificed. They brought the boy to Eli and she said to him pardon me, my Lord, as surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord.

Travis Rosinger:

I prayed for this child and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord For his whole life. He will be given over to the Lord, and he worshiped the Lord there. Did you guys hear that Samuel's mom spoke powerful words about his spiritual future? She said for his whole life he will be given over to the Lord. And it says and he worshiped the Lord there. Now I had to look it up. Some translations do say that they worshiped the Lord there, but whether it was Samuel and his mom or just Samuel, the point is Samuel was worshiping the Lord there and her words are already impacting him in the most important way possible.

Dawn Rosinger:

Our kids need to hear words that give life, just like Hannah spoke, I mean, when she talks about him worshiping God. How powerful was that. But our kids need to hear words that bring life. You know words. You can be anything you want when you grow up or you're going to succeed. God has great plans for you. Just powerful words.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, those are good words.

Dawn Rosinger:

But honestly, there's especially good words that you can speak to your kids. Words like you know what, son, you're just a man of God. Or, sweetie, you are deeply spiritual. Words like I can't believe how well you pray. I love listening to you pray. God is proud of you. Words that just really bring life and encourage them in their relationship with Jesus. I appreciate Bob Goff as a person, but I love this quote. It says don't just tell them who they are, tell them who they are becoming man. I just want to repeat that again Don't just tell them who they are, tell them who they are becoming.

Travis Rosinger:

Yeah, and that's exactly what Hannah was doing when she said for his whole life, he will be given over to the Lord, she was speaking about who he was becoming.

Dawn Rosinger:

You know, when you go to speak, it's something that you have to choose to do and I think as parents, we can choose to actually be like a verbal dam, kind of like what a physical water dam does it holds back water. We can do that with our words, but we have to choose, as parents, to not be a verbal dam. We have to choose to speak words of life and encouragement and love over our kids over and over again Again, tell them who they are becoming. We have to make sure that we are being intentional about speaking these words over them.

Travis Rosinger:

Well, man, this has been a ton of fun hanging out with you guys. I just want to remind you you are the number one spiritual influencer in your kids' lives. Don't ever forget that. Don't underestimate the power of your influence. And the second thing we want you to remind remember is that God shows you to speak words that give life and avoid words that bring death. You're his mouthpiece. Remember moms and dads. If you are not on the same page with raising your kids, it's going to be tough on your kids, but just as equally hard on your marriage. Get on the same page, take these principles and use them the way that God wants you to raise them.

Dawn Rosinger:

Well, this was part one of your spiritual influence. Join us next week for part two. We just want to thank you for listening to this episode of the Loving the Fight Marriage Podcast. Remember, you can do it. You got this. Keep loving the fight, Well see you next time.