{"id":304420,"date":"2017-03-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-motherhood-challenge\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:00:00","slug":"the-motherhood-challenge","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-motherhood-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motherhood Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Hettie Brittz, author of\u00a0&#8220;(un)Natural Mom,&#8221;  motherhood proved more challenging than she expected.  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I pulled her over and I said: \u201cWhy haven\u2019t you given my baby a bath? One would expect better <em>service<\/em> around here.\u201d She looked at me and she said: \u201cMa\u2019am that is <em>your<\/em> baby. <em>You<\/em> were supposed to bathe her <em>yesterday<\/em>.\u201d I just\u2014I just went cold and I just had this fear come over me that \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do this.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, March 15<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. Some aspects of motherhood may just come naturally, but there are other things that we have to learn along the way. Hettie Brittz joins us today to provide some help. Stay with us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I\u2019ve heard you say that you think Barbara was made for motherhood; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; she loved children and couldn\u2019t wait to be a mom. We had six children in ten years; and obviously, she was a mom for almost three decades\u2014and still is today\u2014and now a grandmother. She loved the assignment.When she got fired by the empty nest [Laughter] and they\u2014these little ones flew the coup\u2014it was a great loss for her, because she <em>thoroughly<\/em> enjoyed being a mother.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>: Some aspects of motherhood came easily for her. Other aspects had to be learned over time; didn\u2019t they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: [Laughter] You could ask her about that but, again, <em>absolutely<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe was hardwired to be a mom, but there isn\u2019t any mom alive who has got the perfect disposition to handle all that children can throw at you. I mean, four daughters \/ two sons\u2014all the different combinations of relationships. I think I\u2019ve shared with our audience before\u2014I had a guy, who taught statistics at the university level, do a study of our family and said that these six kids produced something like over a 1,000 relationships. I mean, it\u2019s <em>astounding<\/em>\u2014 the number of different combinations of relationships that we have. All of them demand a mom who knows her assignment and who knows what she\u2019s doing. We have a guest with us from the other side of the world\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> That\u2019s right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014south of the equator\u2014<em>way<\/em> south\u2014from Pretoria, South Africa. Hettie Brittz joins us on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. That\u2019s easy for me to say; isn\u2019t it? [Laughter] Welcome to the broadcast, Hettie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Thank you Dennis and Bob for having me. It\u2019s an honor.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Hettie is an author\/speaker. She is the wife of Louis since 1992. They have three children. She has written a book called <em>(un)Natural Mom<\/em> and the subtitle is <em>Why You Are the Perfect Mom for Your Kids<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFirst of all, let\u2019s just unpack the title of this. Where did you come up with this title and what does it mean?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> We were brainstorming about a book to put out. The publisher was asking me about: \u201cWho are you?\u201d I said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m the most <em>unlikely<\/em> parenting writer\/author you can think of because I\u2019m an unnatural mom.\u201d He went, \u201cThat\u2019s it!\u201d [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJust like Barb, I always wanted to have kids\u2014you just spoke about Barbara and how she was ready for it. I scared my husband when we got married, because I was only 20 when we married. When I started talking about kids, he said: \u201cWhat are you talking about? It\u2019s too soon.\u201d I had him commit to a five-year deadline.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, I was ready\u2014or I thought I was, Dennis\u2014but then on Day One in the neonatal ward, with my little baby next to me, I saw a nurse coming in. I pulled her over and I said: \u201cWhy haven\u2019t <em>you<\/em> given my baby a bath? One would expect better <em>service<\/em> around here.\u201d She looked at me and she said: \u201cMa\u2019am that is <em>your<\/em> baby. <em>You<\/em> were supposed to bathe her <em>yesterday<\/em>.\u201d I just went cold and I just had this fear come over me: \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do this. How could I not have realized that this is my assignment?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd <em>everything<\/em> after that, for many years, was like that\u2014every now and then\u2014that realization: \u201cOh man! A natural mom would have known to do this,\u201d or \u201cA natural mom would have never done <em>that<\/em>,\u201d or \u201cIf I were a natural mom, this would have been <em>easy<\/em>.\u201d But everything about it was hard for me.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> When Ashley, our firstborn, was born, I just remember when they handed her to us. I kind of felt like flipping her over and looking for the instructions: \u201cAre they on her stomach?\u2014[Laughter]\u2014on her back? \u2014her \u2026?\u201d\u2014you know? I mean, \u201cHow do you do this thing?\u201d It really is an incredible responsibility. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember Barbara and me counseling a couple of friends, who had decided to have a baby. She was terrified <em>before<\/em> she got the baby\u2014before she cuddled with that little child that she\u2019d given birth to.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Not only is it an incredible responsibility, but every mom I know wants to get it right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The weight of thinking: \u201cThis is a human being who is in my care. I want to make sure their physically protected. I want to make sure they are emotionally safe. I want make sure that they grow up and thrive,\u201d\u2014then you stop and think\u2014\u201cand I am completely inadequate for that task.\u201d I can see where a mom would get paralyzed and not know what to do. Is that how you felt?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Absolutely. It\u2019s overwhelming, but I had some sense of confidence in myself which was completely misplaced. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBecause I studied speech pathology and audiology, I knew everything about normal development. I knew how the embryo was growing. I knew what was happening before the birth, week by week. I had signed up on this internet platform. I watched the development of the baby, knew what to pray into. My nursery was kitted out\u2014I <em>made<\/em> everything \/ I sewed\u2014that was the only time I ever sewed. I sewed everything the nursery <em>needed<\/em>. I read all the books \/ I attended the prenatal classes. I thought the key was: \u201cJust get all the information from the right sources. Have your tick lists ready. Have your bags packed. Have everything the baby will physically need and then you will be ready.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut it's the <em>emotional<\/em> readiness and that readiness to unselfishly look away from yourself for the next however many years that I was not ready for, because I was ambitious\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014I had qualified as a speech therapist \/ I wanted to build a practice. I had an outreach center in a poor part of our city, where I looked after 45 kids every day after school, inputting into their lives. I had all these things that I wanted to <em>do<\/em> for God \/ for other people. It\u2019s a lot easier than caring for a little bitty baby who was mine, and that <em>shamed<\/em> me\u2014because I looked in the mirror, after each day, and said: \u201cI did a lot for those kids today;\u201d\u2014[previously] other people\u2019s kids\u2014\u201cbut now, I just don\u2019t know what to do with my own baby.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: \u201cThis baby\u2019s all yours.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe just need to clarify here, on the frontend, that Pretoria, South Africa, is a whole lot like America. I mean, it\u2019s on the other side of the world \/ it is south of the equator. While it\u2019s winter here, it\u2019s summer there; but the same western values and media just kind of saturate the culture, which undoubtedly, you\u2019d absorbed\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014all these high expectations of yourself, as a woman, moving toward being a mom. I mean, you had to have these unrealistic expectations built, not only from yourself, but from the Christian community\u2014but also the culture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; absolutely. I started dreading Mother\u2019s Day above every other day on the calendar; because you walk into church on Mother\u2019s Day Sunday, and you get a rose. Then you get read Proverbs 31. The checklist personality that I have\u2014immediately starts scoring myself\u2014I get: \u201cShe can sew,\u201d \/ \u201cI can\u2019t,\u201d\u2014\u201cShe cooks,\u201d \/ \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cShe\u2019s in the marketplace.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> \u201cShe is a night owl and a morning person.\u201d I mean, that is just not fair! [Laughter] She stays up all night and she gets up before the chickens do\u2014it\u2019s just overwhelming.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Her husband speaks well of her \/ her children speak well of her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; and my kids want to give me up for adoption. [Laughter] I need to listen to all of that and feel like I\u2019ve been honored today, but I was shamed and embarrassed and felt more and more inadequate the more I looked into this mirror\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014because I could do that part where she does business or where she goes out and works \/ I could do <em>that<\/em>\u2014but the family part\u2014the relationship part \/ the <em>nurturing<\/em> of kids was what was tough.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> There is one other thing you\u2019ve left out\u2014that\u2019s the home you came from. What kind of mom did you have, growing up? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Oh, I had the most thoughtful mom one can ever have\u2014but at the same time\u2014a mom who made the right decisions that the culture and what she understood to be biblical standards expected of her. She gave up her career to raise us; but I always felt the tension of: \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for these four kids, I could have done more with my life.\u201d She never found, I guess, the <em>permission<\/em> to do both. It was always an either\/or.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was a sense of dissatisfaction with her life that I think I inherited in a certain way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I think the question is\u2014a question of: \u201cIn the face of competing priorities\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cwhere does first allegiance lie?\u201d That\u2019s where you have to look to passages\u2014like Titus 2\u2014that say to be a lover of your husband and a lover of your children, and keeper at home. When you\u2019re doing those things\u2014and there is margin\u2014I don\u2019t think there is any prohibition, on God\u2019s part, to say: \u201cWell, you can\u2019t\u2019 use your margin for anything other than husband\/home.\u201d I do think you have to come back to\u2014if something\u2019s got to give, at the end of the day\u2014it can\u2019t be that what gives\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> It can\u2019t be the family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014is your marriage and your kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> No; absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: I\u2019m thinking of the passage that Paul wrote to Timothy too\u2014it says \u201c\u2026for godliness is actually a means of great gain when accompanied with contentment.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Being able to exhale and say: \u201cThis is the call on my life for today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIt\u2019s a season. There will be another season someday.\u201d Undoubtedly, we\u2019re speaking to moms today\u2014or maybe future moms\u2014who are wondering, \u201cCan I have it all?\u201d The answer is: \u201cYou really can\u2019t\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: \u2014\u201chave everything.\u201d That\u2019s one of the lies of the culture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> I couldn\u2019t agree more. What I would love for a mom to understand is that it\u2019s not her spiritual immaturity that is making that phase difficult for her\u2014it\u2019s her personality\u2014our personality is our flesh. It is what we are supposed to rise above by the power of the Holy Spirit. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf my mom had had permission to say to herself: \u201cI am not a bad Christian \/ I am not an unspiritual woman. I am probably a workaholic that needs to get a lot done; because at the end of the day, all I have to show for the day is dirty dishes, dirty diapers, and a dirty home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIt gets to me, but this does not mean I am a bad person. This means some of what is my assignment right now goes against what I would love to do, just in my flesh. I am going to tap into the Lord for this specific thing. I\u2019m going to ask Him to give me the grace to be myself but be that godly mom that my children need.\u201d I think my mom did it to a large degree.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You put your finger right on what I think a lot of moms feel, which is they look at the end of the day and they go \u201cWhat did I accomplish today?\u201d You look around and you go: \u201cWell let\u2019s see, my children are still alive. That\u2019s a good thing; right?\u201d But not much else happened that they can point to and say: \u201cI moved the ball forward in this direction. I accomplished this.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is where I think\u2014as moms and dads\u2014we have to look at the fact that the raising of the next generation is not done in days\u2014it\u2019s done in years. It\u2019s faithfulness in the days that leads to healthy years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes; and there\u2019s the whole process of raising kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat does wonders for our humility\u2014to be given the assignment of taking little human beings, who are related to us and our tendencies. Here you are\u2014struggling with your identity, as a mom, and being content in that\u2014and your daughter starts having a little bit more aggressive play with her brother\u2014I assume younger brother; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> [Laughter] Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You go to a counselor\/therapist to kind of work this out\u2014figure out what it is. You get another message back\u2014that you\u2019re inferior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; because I thought that something was wrong with my daughter\u2014I mean, to not want her brother to breathe another breath\u2014[Laughter]\u2014seems like some sort of diagnosis. After the evaluation, the play therapist pulls me back into her room\u2014she says \u201cYou have an uncertain ambivalent bond with your child.\u201d I asked for normal words and she said\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014\u201can uncertain ambivalent bond.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie: <\/strong>Yes; that was the diagnosis, and it was <em>mine<\/em>\u2014[Laughter]\u2014it wasn\u2019t my daughter\u2019s. She looked at me and she said: \u201cIt means your daughter isn\u2019t sure who you want to be in her life. She\u2019s not sure if you want to be her mom. Do you?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt took the breath out of me; because it was the confrontation of: \u201cDo you really want this assignment? Do really want to get up in the middle of the night? Do you want to be the one who gets up for her when she screams at 1 am? Do you want to change the diapers? Do you want to do the hard work it will take for you to have a relationship with her?\u2014because you did not bond with her because there were things that she <em>needed<\/em> that you just didn\u2019t do.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I asked her how this had happened\u2014if I waited for her \/ we struggled to be pregnant with her\u2014there was great anticipation \/ <em>immense<\/em> joy when she came\u2014so: \u201cHow is it possible that I didn\u2019t bond with her if I wanted her that badly?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd she said: \u201cIt\u2019s because she is your opposite. Everything that comes <em>naturally<\/em> for you to do with a baby, she doesn\u2019t need. What she truly needs\u2014the way she experiences love and nurturing is what you can\u2019t do unless you are going to <em>intentionally<\/em> love her the way she needs to be loved.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, tell me what I need to do.\u201d She said: \u201cYou need to slow down. You need to get into the bathtub with her, for half an hour, at least, every day. You need to wash her slowly.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI could bathe her in five minutes flat and have her dressed so I could go on with my life, which was pretty much all I wanted to really do, which was my big mistake. She said: \u201cYou need to take half an hour. You need to do this slowly, and you need to dry her whole body\u2014put lotion on her little arms and legs and <em>hold<\/em> her until she lets go.\u201d My first response was: \u201cLord! I can\u2019t do this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI don\u2019t know that I can do this, but help me because I know I <em>need<\/em> to do this.\u201d The reward from that has just been <em>immense<\/em>; because she is still, at age 17, the one who regularly slows me down. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know that Scripture that says women will be saved through childbirth? To me, this is what it means\u2014it means that your children, who are not like you, will save you from yourself. They will be the ones through whom the Lord says: \u201cIs this really important? Is this really godly? Is this really who you want to be?\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019s been that person <em>many<\/em> times\u2014and so have the other two. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Hettie, I have to believe that we\u2019ve got moms, listening today, who are relating with what you\u2019ve described\u2014life is busy: \u201cThirty minutes to bathe a child. You\u2019ve got to be kidding me! How do you take that much time to spend bathing a child when life is a blur around you, and there are places to go, and there are things to do?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019re feeling under-appreciated \/ they\u2019re feeling overwhelmed. They are looking at the pace and they\u2019re saying, \u201cI\u2019m not sure I was made for this.\u201d What would you say to them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> I\u2019d let them go and read Ephesians 1\u2014that space, where it says\u2014I\u2019m quoting from The Message loosely\u2014it says: \u201cLong before we saw Christ and had our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living.\u201d If we can, for a moment, zoom out and get the big picture of what\u2019s going on, we can trust that this is all part of a godly and glorious design. What that means, practically\u2014because that\u2019s a spiritual concept\u2014practically, that means who you are, and who your children are, and what your life is\u2014none of that is a mistake. All of that is part of a design; and ultimately, Christ will be written into your family story through who you are, even through the mistakes you will make, as He wrote His story into my life through the mistake I made with my daughter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat visit to that therapist was the beginning of my parenting ministry; because that day, I said, \u201cIt should not be this hard for a Christian mom to raise her children in a godly way. Once I\u2019ve figured out what I\u2019ve done wrong and have gotten wisdom from God to fix this, I\u2019m going to share this with other people.\u201d That\u2019s how my journey began\u2014even the hard stuff is part of what God is doing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHave you ever thought of how necessary it is for some kids to grow up a little tougher than others?\u2014because God knows what\u2019s ahead for them. Maybe I\u2019m the one who is going to make them tough, even with the parts of me that God is sorting out as He goes along, writing a glorious salvation story into our family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You\u2019re saying: \u201cGod gave imperfect, flawed children to imperfect, flawed parents,\u201d and then said: \u201cI have a plan here; and that plan is a redemptive plan for them, and for you, and I know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I can\u2019t help but think, Hettie, that Proverbs 31\u2014how we started the broadcast\u2014has worked its way out in your life. It says \u201cstrength and dignity are her clothing and she laughs at the time to come,\u201d\u2014because you\u2019re smiling right now. You\u2019re not gritting your teeth, as a mom. You\u2019re in the process\u2014you\u2019re not perfect \/ you haven\u2019t raised perfect kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got three teenagers right now; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Two and a ten-year-old.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay; alright [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014who probably thinks she is a teenager.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You\u2019re able to look at the future and smile.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; I trust the Lord much more with my kids than I do myself. I know that He\u2019s got their future in His hands in a way where I cannot wreck it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And He has your future, as a mom\u2014and the moms, who are listening to us today\u2014in His hand, going forward as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is a faith journey: \u201cIt is impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).\u201d You have to expect that God is going to reward you along the way; and he <em>does<\/em>, as we raise these children to adulthood. They will become adults\u2014[Laughter}\u2014I <em>promise<\/em> you \/ they really will!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> That\u2019s good to know. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Part of what you discovered in your journey, as a mom, is that there are different styles\u2014different moms have different styles. In fact, some of it can be mapped out. There is, online, an assessment that our listeners can take if they want to. They can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com. They can answer a few questions, and it will help them map out what style of mother they are. Once you understand what style you are, you can make adjustments as necessary so that you raise kids who thrive. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to our website, FamilyLife Today.com, for information about the assessment you can take, online, and for information about Hettie Brittz\u2019 book <em>(un)Natural Mom: Why You Are the Perfect Mom for Your Kids<\/em>. Again, the website is FamilyLife Today.com. You can order a copy of Hettie\u2019s book from us, online, or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to request your copy. Again, the toll-free number is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life and then the word, \u201cTODAY,\u201d\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014or go online at FamilyLife Today.com. We\u2019ve got a link on our website, as well, to Hettie\u2019s website. If you want to find out more about the work that she\u2019s doing\u2014about her husband\u2019s ministry as a worship leader\u00a0 \/ about what\u2019s going on in South Africa\u2014you\u2019ll find the link at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that we\u2019ve observed, over the years, is that, when things are going well at home, that usually gives us a platform \/ a foundation from which the rest of life can do well. But if couples are struggling in their marriage, if kids are struggling at home, if there\u2019s conflict between moms and dads and the kids, that spills into every other area of our lives. It\u2019s one of the reasons why, at FamilyLife, we\u2019re committed to providing you with practical biblical help and hope for your marriage and your family so that it can be all that God designed it to be so that, from that foundation, you can be an effective ambassador for Jesus Christ in your workplace, in your school, in your neighborhood, with your friends and family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur goal is to see every home become a godly home. I want to take a minute to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d to those who share that goal with us, our Legacy Partners and those of you who donate to support this ministry. You are making it possible for the work of this ministry to be expanded to more and more people, month in and month out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re reaching more people all around the world than ever before; and it\u2019s because folks, like you, believe in this mission and help make that expansion possible. Thanks for your support of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re a long-time listener\u2014and you\u2019ve never joined us, as a monthly Legacy Partner, you can do that easily today. Go to FamilyLife Today.com to make an online donation. Information about becoming a Legacy Partner is available there as well. You can either give one time or make this the first of your regular monthly giving. You can also donate by calling 1-800-FL-TODAY; or you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at PO Box 7111 Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, when you make a donation, we\u2019d love to send you, as a thank-you gift this month, a resource that will help you share the Easter story with your children or your grandchildren. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s FamilyLIfe\u2019s<em> Resurrection Eggs<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em><sup>.<\/sup> It\u2019s our gift to you when you support the ministry this month with a donation. Again, we want to say, \u201cThanks for your partnership and for helping us reach even more people with God\u2019s design for marriage and family.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you can be back with us again tomorrow. Hettie Brittz is going to be here again, and we\u2019re going to talk more about how you can be the mom that God has called and created you to be. Hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHelp for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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I\u2019ve heard you say that you think Barbara was made for motherhood; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; she loved children and couldn\u2019t wait to be a mom. We had six children in ten years; and obviously, she was a mom for almost three decades\u2014and still is today\u2014and now a grandmother. She loved the assignment.When she got fired by the empty nest [Laughter] and they\u2014these little ones flew the coup\u2014it was a great loss for her, because she <em>thoroughly<\/em> enjoyed being a mother.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>: Some aspects of motherhood came easily for her. 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[Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBecause I studied speech pathology and audiology, I knew everything about normal development. I knew how the embryo was growing. I knew what was happening before the birth, week by week. I had signed up on this internet platform. I watched the development of the baby, knew what to pray into. My nursery was kitted out\u2014I <em>made<\/em> everything \/ I sewed\u2014that was the only time I ever sewed. I sewed everything the nursery <em>needed<\/em>. I read all the books \/ I attended the prenatal classes. I thought the key was: \u201cJust get all the information from the right sources. Have your tick lists ready. Have your bags packed. Have everything the baby will physically need and then you will be ready.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut it's the <em>emotional<\/em> readiness and that readiness to unselfishly look away from yourself for the next however many years that I was not ready for, because I was ambitious\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014I had qualified as a speech therapist \/ I wanted to build a practice. I had an outreach center in a poor part of our city, where I looked after 45 kids every day after school, inputting into their lives. I had all these things that I wanted to <em>do<\/em> for God \/ for other people. It\u2019s a lot easier than caring for a little bitty baby who was mine, and that <em>shamed<\/em> me\u2014because I looked in the mirror, after each day, and said: \u201cI did a lot for those kids today;\u201d\u2014[previously] other people\u2019s kids\u2014\u201cbut now, I just don\u2019t know what to do with my own baby.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: \u201cThis baby\u2019s all yours.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe just need to clarify here, on the frontend, that Pretoria, South Africa, is a whole lot like America. I mean, it\u2019s on the other side of the world \/ it is south of the equator. While it\u2019s winter here, it\u2019s summer there; but the same western values and media just kind of saturate the culture, which undoubtedly, you\u2019d absorbed\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014all these high expectations of yourself, as a woman, moving toward being a mom. I mean, you had to have these unrealistic expectations built, not only from yourself, but from the Christian community\u2014but also the culture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; absolutely. I started dreading Mother\u2019s Day above every other day on the calendar; because you walk into church on Mother\u2019s Day Sunday, and you get a rose. Then you get read Proverbs 31. The checklist personality that I have\u2014immediately starts scoring myself\u2014I get: \u201cShe can sew,\u201d \/ \u201cI can\u2019t,\u201d\u2014\u201cShe cooks,\u201d \/ \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u201cShe\u2019s in the marketplace.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> \u201cShe is a night owl and a morning person.\u201d I mean, that is just not fair! [Laughter] She stays up all night and she gets up before the chickens do\u2014it\u2019s just overwhelming.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Her husband speaks well of her \/ her children speak well of her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; and my kids want to give me up for adoption. [Laughter] I need to listen to all of that and feel like I\u2019ve been honored today, but I was shamed and embarrassed and felt more and more inadequate the more I looked into this mirror\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014because I could do that part where she does business or where she goes out and works \/ I could do <em>that<\/em>\u2014but the family part\u2014the relationship part \/ the <em>nurturing<\/em> of kids was what was tough.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> There is one other thing you\u2019ve left out\u2014that\u2019s the home you came from. What kind of mom did you have, growing up? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Oh, I had the most thoughtful mom one can ever have\u2014but at the same time\u2014a mom who made the right decisions that the culture and what she understood to be biblical standards expected of her. She gave up her career to raise us; but I always felt the tension of: \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for these four kids, I could have done more with my life.\u201d She never found, I guess, the <em>permission<\/em> to do both. It was always an either\/or.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was a sense of dissatisfaction with her life that I think I inherited in a certain way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I think the question is\u2014a question of: \u201cIn the face of competing priorities\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cwhere does first allegiance lie?\u201d That\u2019s where you have to look to passages\u2014like Titus 2\u2014that say to be a lover of your husband and a lover of your children, and keeper at home. When you\u2019re doing those things\u2014and there is margin\u2014I don\u2019t think there is any prohibition, on God\u2019s part, to say: \u201cWell, you can\u2019t\u2019 use your margin for anything other than husband\/home.\u201d I do think you have to come back to\u2014if something\u2019s got to give, at the end of the day\u2014it can\u2019t be that what gives\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> It can\u2019t be the family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014is your marriage and your kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> No; absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: I\u2019m thinking of the passage that Paul wrote to Timothy too\u2014it says \u201c\u2026for godliness is actually a means of great gain when accompanied with contentment.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Being able to exhale and say: \u201cThis is the call on my life for today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIt\u2019s a season. There will be another season someday.\u201d Undoubtedly, we\u2019re speaking to moms today\u2014or maybe future moms\u2014who are wondering, \u201cCan I have it all?\u201d The answer is: \u201cYou really can\u2019t\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> No.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: \u2014\u201chave everything.\u201d That\u2019s one of the lies of the culture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> I couldn\u2019t agree more. What I would love for a mom to understand is that it\u2019s not her spiritual immaturity that is making that phase difficult for her\u2014it\u2019s her personality\u2014our personality is our flesh. It is what we are supposed to rise above by the power of the Holy Spirit. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf my mom had had permission to say to herself: \u201cI am not a bad Christian \/ I am not an unspiritual woman. I am probably a workaholic that needs to get a lot done; because at the end of the day, all I have to show for the day is dirty dishes, dirty diapers, and a dirty home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIt gets to me, but this does not mean I am a bad person. This means some of what is my assignment right now goes against what I would love to do, just in my flesh. I am going to tap into the Lord for this specific thing. I\u2019m going to ask Him to give me the grace to be myself but be that godly mom that my children need.\u201d I think my mom did it to a large degree.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You put your finger right on what I think a lot of moms feel, which is they look at the end of the day and they go \u201cWhat did I accomplish today?\u201d You look around and you go: \u201cWell let\u2019s see, my children are still alive. That\u2019s a good thing; right?\u201d But not much else happened that they can point to and say: \u201cI moved the ball forward in this direction. I accomplished this.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is where I think\u2014as moms and dads\u2014we have to look at the fact that the raising of the next generation is not done in days\u2014it\u2019s done in years. It\u2019s faithfulness in the days that leads to healthy years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes; and there\u2019s the whole process of raising kids. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat does wonders for our humility\u2014to be given the assignment of taking little human beings, who are related to us and our tendencies. Here you are\u2014struggling with your identity, as a mom, and being content in that\u2014and your daughter starts having a little bit more aggressive play with her brother\u2014I assume younger brother; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> [Laughter] Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You go to a counselor\/therapist to kind of work this out\u2014figure out what it is. You get another message back\u2014that you\u2019re inferior.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; because I thought that something was wrong with my daughter\u2014I mean, to not want her brother to breathe another breath\u2014[Laughter]\u2014seems like some sort of diagnosis. After the evaluation, the play therapist pulls me back into her room\u2014she says \u201cYou have an uncertain ambivalent bond with your child.\u201d I asked for normal words and she said\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014\u201can uncertain ambivalent bond.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie: <\/strong>Yes; that was the diagnosis, and it was <em>mine<\/em>\u2014[Laughter]\u2014it wasn\u2019t my daughter\u2019s. She looked at me and she said: \u201cIt means your daughter isn\u2019t sure who you want to be in her life. She\u2019s not sure if you want to be her mom. Do you?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt took the breath out of me; because it was the confrontation of: \u201cDo you really want this assignment? Do really want to get up in the middle of the night? Do you want to be the one who gets up for her when she screams at 1 am? Do you want to change the diapers? Do you want to do the hard work it will take for you to have a relationship with her?\u2014because you did not bond with her because there were things that she <em>needed<\/em> that you just didn\u2019t do.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I asked her how this had happened\u2014if I waited for her \/ we struggled to be pregnant with her\u2014there was great anticipation \/ <em>immense<\/em> joy when she came\u2014so: \u201cHow is it possible that I didn\u2019t bond with her if I wanted her that badly?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd she said: \u201cIt\u2019s because she is your opposite. Everything that comes <em>naturally<\/em> for you to do with a baby, she doesn\u2019t need. What she truly needs\u2014the way she experiences love and nurturing is what you can\u2019t do unless you are going to <em>intentionally<\/em> love her the way she needs to be loved.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, tell me what I need to do.\u201d She said: \u201cYou need to slow down. You need to get into the bathtub with her, for half an hour, at least, every day. You need to wash her slowly.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI could bathe her in five minutes flat and have her dressed so I could go on with my life, which was pretty much all I wanted to really do, which was my big mistake. She said: \u201cYou need to take half an hour. You need to do this slowly, and you need to dry her whole body\u2014put lotion on her little arms and legs and <em>hold<\/em> her until she lets go.\u201d My first response was: \u201cLord! I can\u2019t do this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI don\u2019t know that I can do this, but help me because I know I <em>need<\/em> to do this.\u201d The reward from that has just been <em>immense<\/em>; because she is still, at age 17, the one who regularly slows me down. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know that Scripture that says women will be saved through childbirth? To me, this is what it means\u2014it means that your children, who are not like you, will save you from yourself. They will be the ones through whom the Lord says: \u201cIs this really important? Is this really godly? Is this really who you want to be?\u201d\u00a0 She\u2019s been that person <em>many<\/em> times\u2014and so have the other two. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Hettie, I have to believe that we\u2019ve got moms, listening today, who are relating with what you\u2019ve described\u2014life is busy: \u201cThirty minutes to bathe a child. You\u2019ve got to be kidding me! How do you take that much time to spend bathing a child when life is a blur around you, and there are places to go, and there are things to do?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019re feeling under-appreciated \/ they\u2019re feeling overwhelmed. They are looking at the pace and they\u2019re saying, \u201cI\u2019m not sure I was made for this.\u201d What would you say to them?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> I\u2019d let them go and read Ephesians 1\u2014that space, where it says\u2014I\u2019m quoting from The Message loosely\u2014it says: \u201cLong before we saw Christ and had our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living.\u201d If we can, for a moment, zoom out and get the big picture of what\u2019s going on, we can trust that this is all part of a godly and glorious design. What that means, practically\u2014because that\u2019s a spiritual concept\u2014practically, that means who you are, and who your children are, and what your life is\u2014none of that is a mistake. All of that is part of a design; and ultimately, Christ will be written into your family story through who you are, even through the mistakes you will make, as He wrote His story into my life through the mistake I made with my daughter.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat visit to that therapist was the beginning of my parenting ministry; because that day, I said, \u201cIt should not be this hard for a Christian mom to raise her children in a godly way. Once I\u2019ve figured out what I\u2019ve done wrong and have gotten wisdom from God to fix this, I\u2019m going to share this with other people.\u201d That\u2019s how my journey began\u2014even the hard stuff is part of what God is doing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHave you ever thought of how necessary it is for some kids to grow up a little tougher than others?\u2014because God knows what\u2019s ahead for them. Maybe I\u2019m the one who is going to make them tough, even with the parts of me that God is sorting out as He goes along, writing a glorious salvation story into our family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You\u2019re saying: \u201cGod gave imperfect, flawed children to imperfect, flawed parents,\u201d and then said: \u201cI have a plan here; and that plan is a redemptive plan for them, and for you, and I know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> That\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m saying.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And I can\u2019t help but think, Hettie, that Proverbs 31\u2014how we started the broadcast\u2014has worked its way out in your life. It says \u201cstrength and dignity are her clothing and she laughs at the time to come,\u201d\u2014because you\u2019re smiling right now. You\u2019re not gritting your teeth, as a mom. You\u2019re in the process\u2014you\u2019re not perfect \/ you haven\u2019t raised perfect kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got three teenagers right now; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Two and a ten-year-old.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay; alright [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> \u2014who probably thinks she is a teenager.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You\u2019re able to look at the future and smile.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> Yes; I trust the Lord much more with my kids than I do myself. I know that He\u2019s got their future in His hands in a way where I cannot wreck it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And He has your future, as a mom\u2014and the moms, who are listening to us today\u2014in His hand, going forward as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is a faith journey: \u201cIt is impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).\u201d You have to expect that God is going to reward you along the way; and he <em>does<\/em>, as we raise these children to adulthood. They will become adults\u2014[Laughter}\u2014I <em>promise<\/em> you \/ they really will!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Hettie:<\/strong> That\u2019s good to know. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Part of what you discovered in your journey, as a mom, is that there are different styles\u2014different moms have different styles. In fact, some of it can be mapped out. There is, online, an assessment that our listeners can take if they want to. They can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com. They can answer a few questions, and it will help them map out what style of mother they are. Once you understand what style you are, you can make adjustments as necessary so that you raise kids who thrive. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to our website, FamilyLife Today.com, for information about the assessment you can take, online, and for information about Hettie Brittz\u2019 book <em>(un)Natural Mom: Why You Are the Perfect Mom for Your Kids<\/em>. Again, the website is FamilyLife Today.com. You can order a copy of Hettie\u2019s book from us, online, or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to request your copy. Again, the toll-free number is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life and then the word, \u201cTODAY,\u201d\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014or go online at FamilyLife Today.com. We\u2019ve got a link on our website, as well, to Hettie\u2019s website. If you want to find out more about the work that she\u2019s doing\u2014about her husband\u2019s ministry as a worship leader\u00a0 \/ about what\u2019s going on in South Africa\u2014you\u2019ll find the link at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the things that we\u2019ve observed, over the years, is that, when things are going well at home, that usually gives us a platform \/ a foundation from which the rest of life can do well. But if couples are struggling in their marriage, if kids are struggling at home, if there\u2019s conflict between moms and dads and the kids, that spills into every other area of our lives. It\u2019s one of the reasons why, at FamilyLife, we\u2019re committed to providing you with practical biblical help and hope for your marriage and your family so that it can be all that God designed it to be so that, from that foundation, you can be an effective ambassador for Jesus Christ in your workplace, in your school, in your neighborhood, with your friends and family. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur goal is to see every home become a godly home. I want to take a minute to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d to those who share that goal with us, our Legacy Partners and those of you who donate to support this ministry. You are making it possible for the work of this ministry to be expanded to more and more people, month in and month out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re reaching more people all around the world than ever before; and it\u2019s because folks, like you, believe in this mission and help make that expansion possible. Thanks for your support of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re a long-time listener\u2014and you\u2019ve never joined us, as a monthly Legacy Partner, you can do that easily today. Go to FamilyLife Today.com to make an online donation. Information about becoming a Legacy Partner is available there as well. You can either give one time or make this the first of your regular monthly giving. You can also donate by calling 1-800-FL-TODAY; or you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at PO Box 7111 Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy the way, when you make a donation, we\u2019d love to send you, as a thank-you gift this month, a resource that will help you share the Easter story with your children or your grandchildren. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s FamilyLIfe\u2019s<em> Resurrection Eggs<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em><sup>.<\/sup> It\u2019s our gift to you when you support the ministry this month with a donation. Again, we want to say, \u201cThanks for your partnership and for helping us reach even more people with God\u2019s design for marriage and family.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you can be back with us again tomorrow. Hettie Brittz is going to be here again, and we\u2019re going to talk more about how you can be the mom that God has called and created you to be. Hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHelp for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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