Allie Beth Stuckey

And I probably messed up more than I needed to have.

I know I did, but they still want to be around us.

And I think the way to do that is to make sure that, again, I've talked about this before, but to make sure that they see you as not hypocritical.

That doesn't mean you don't make mistakes and you're certainly not perfect, but make sure that you're the same person at home that you are when you leave the home.

That's what they will look at the most.

And make sure, again, just had an email related to this the other day from one of the listeners, is that you understand the difference between values, rules, and preferences.

If you understand that, okay, there are some things that are preferences, there are some things that are rules, like, okay, when you're going to come home from your date, preferences are...

you know or you're wearing blue pants or green pants okay and values are are you honest right and i think if they see that right balance with you they're going to want to have that in the future the other thing is if you'll focus on experiences as opposed to things they're going to want to continue those experiences when you uh when they're adults as well

How did your mom get her start in songwriting?

Congrats to you.

God's blessings on your family.

Well, thank you very much, Joni.

I appreciate that.

Lisa's always been creative.

She's always been a writer.

She wrote things when she was young and in high school, wrote a really cool poem that was published about her grandmother.

And then when our kids were little, she would take regular songs and write mom parody songs about them.

And some of those are just hilarious.

And we had to figure out maybe how to get a link to some of those because they are super, super funny.

And then as Allie left high school and went to college, and so we were somewhat empty nesters because Daniel was off at a program at that time, she began to get more serious about songwriting.