November 17, 2024 — Episode #46
In a rare in-studio interview — unusual for this era of the show — Jerry and Becky welcome longtime friends Vic and Joyce Winburn, married 57 years, to talk about raising children, discipline, and passing faith to the next generation.
Content note: one guest briefly describes experiencing harsh, physically abusive discipline as a child.
Vic and Joyce share their spiritual upbringings, including how a family friend and mentor helped shape Vic’s faith after a difficult childhood home, and Vic’s career as a college athletic trainer, including his years at Marshall University in the years following the school’s tragic 1970 plane crash. The couples discuss raising two daughters with different personalities and interests, one of whom homeschooled her own children and one of whom is married to a pastor now battling cancer. They talk candidly about discipline: Vic describes growing up with harsh physical punishment from his own father and intentionally choosing a gentler approach with his own children, while Joyce credits their daughters’ faith more to their own walk with the Lord than to specific parenting techniques. The conversation closes with reflections on grandparenting and letting adult children raise their own kids without interference.
Topics discussed:
- Guests Vic and Joyce Winburn’s 57-year marriage
- Mentorship from a family friend who became a father figure
- Vic’s career as an athletic trainer, including at Marshall University
- Raising daughters with different personalities and interests
- Homeschooling and its effect on family time
- Approaches to discipline across generations
- Supporting a family member through a cancer diagnosis
- Letting adult children parent their own way
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