Phil,
I've been listening since about 1982, when I got married. Did you
know that Dobson actually took a tape recorder in and recorded a home
birth in 83 or 84. In fact, that broadcast gave me the courage to go
ahead and have Lizzie at home with a midwife. Having had four
different birth experiences, I can tell you that our home birth was
definitely the best one. Anyway, Dobson's advice came in handy
during early child raising and, because of his influence, I was
pretty heavily involved in the Right to Life movement for a
time. Now that Greg is a pastor, we have found the Pastor to Pastor
ministry to come in handy at times as well. When I was an undergrad
at Calvin, we had to watch Dobson's first film series on the family
as part of one of our courses. I can't remember which class right
now, but I think I saw his entire film series about three times
before I graduated. You could say that I've been saturated with
Dobson. I always know when you are referring to his program, because
I've heard so many!
Kathy
At 06:15 PM 4/1/2007, you wrote:
>Kathy,
>
>when my youngest son, now 24, was 6 to 18 months, he had chronic ear
>infections. Every three weeks we would take him to the doctor. It was
>before we had insurance. Medication became more and more expensive each
>time. They were threatening to put tubes in his ears and we didn't want
>that. The only way he was happy, if you could call it that, was if you sat
>and held him upright against your chest. When Sandy would go to work, I did
>this hour after hour. I listened to the radio much of the time so Focus
>became a very regular part of my life. By the way, eventually we took our
>son to a Christian chiropractor, which I didn't believe could help, but
>figured it was worth a try. When we came home and walked in the front door,
>my son wiggled in my arms and wanted to get down. He picked up a toy and he
>played all day and I never held him once. From then on, if he acted like
>his ears bothered him, we took him in. Back then they only had low powered
>ultrasound which stimulated better blood flow. Later he purchased expensive
>low powered lasers which were nothing short of miraculous. Everett never
>had another ear infection. But because of his problem for that year, Focus
>on the Family became a daily part of my life. I never missed it.
>
>Phil.
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