We just did a parenting seminar for a local church. After the seminar, a married couple came up to us to ask some questions. We found out they were a blended family, married a few years, six kids between them, and facing a ton of parenting challenges.
At the beginning of the seminar, I challenged all the parents to become learners about family. Same question I will ask you today:
What are you doing to become an expert father? An expert mother? An expert husband or wife? Marriage and family are the most important things you are going to do in your life. How are you becoming an expert? What are you learning?
When we talked to the couple afterwards, the dad said, “It’s amazing to me I have never thought of that. I’m in information technology so I am always studying how to be better at my work. I’m a personal trainer on the side so I am always watching YouTube videos on physical training and nutrition. But I never have thought about learning how to do family.”
He’s not alone. Where are you in your learning about marriage and family?
Suzanne and I have been students of marriage and family for over 30 years. I know for me I saw with seven kids the train wreck my family could become, and I wanted to avoid that scenario if at all possible! I saw the pain of dysfunctional family relationships, and I made a commitment it would not be because of me if I could help it.
And that is why we formed Crazy Cool Family. We wanted to inspire parents to become experts at marriage, at family, at family relationships, at building a family culture where everyone could thrive.
Can we inspire you? You are already doing great just reading our daily email. Did you know we have a Crazy Cool Family podcast with over 260 episodes over the last six years?
But if you really want to be challenged and take your parenting to the next level, we highly recommend our new guidebooks we just released this year. The Guide to Building Family Relationships and The Guide to Creating Family Culture. Six sessions for each guide and each session takes just 30-45 minutes to go through. We recommend if you are married, each one of you gets both guides so you can work through them separately and then process them together.
And because you are in our Practical Parenting email list, we can offer you a discounted price. Just to go https://crazycoolfamily.com/special-offer and you can order direct from us.
Remember, you only get one chance at being an excellent parent and it’s not going to happen overnight. Now is the best time to start, and we will be with you for years to come as you become an expert in your most important job
