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.