#102: Becoming a Spiritually and Emotionally Healthy Parent for our Kids

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a discussion about what we describe as the "art of becoming." Too often we get so focused on the day-to-day sleep, discipline, or behavioral issues with our kids that we lose sight of what really influences who they become.

Don't get us wrong, it's not that these day-to-day issues don't matter. However, it's easy to get so lost in the day-to-day, that we neglect who we're becoming.

In this episode, we talk about a recent research study that connected more parenting information to increased parenting anxiety and decreased self-confidence. As one article suggests, we get more anxious when we think there is one answer to our parenting problem, and we don't have it.

Our hope is that this discussion encourages you to create the spiritual and emotional environment you and your kids need to thrive.

Show Notes:

Click here to learn more about Homegrown, to watch the video trailer (a must see!) and to receive free downloads for your kids.

Click here to purchase the new children's book, What Am I Feeling?

Articles mentioned in the podcast:

The Diabolical Genius of the Baby Advice Industry by Oliver Burkeman

Becoming Human by Jean Vanier

Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well by Joshua Straub

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0:00.0	Do you think our grandparents were really that concerned about crying it out and sleeping and how much we were eating?
0:08.6	Like they just survived. It's like, kid, welcome to the world. Here's the fam.
0:13.7	Yeah.
0:14.2	Slide on in line. It's like we have information overload today. Yeah. In a lot of ways. And that
0:19.0	information overload is actually increasing our anxiety, not decreasing it.
0:21.9	That's it.
0:22.2	Because you're looking for this specific answer, assuming that there is one.
0:26.5	You're listening to the In This Together podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub,
0:30.7	a podcast dedicated to helping you live, love, and lead well as a spouse, a parent, and a human.
0:37.8	Because no matter where you're at in a parent, and a human being.
0:43.0	Because no matter where you're at in your journey, you're not alone. We're in this together.
0:53.8	Welcome back to the Endus Together podcast. Today we are talking about the art of becoming.
0:55.0	Is that an art?
0:56.0	It's an art of becoming a human being.
0:59.0	I feel like you just made up a thing.
1:01.0	I did make up a thing.
1:03.0	So a number of episodes back, we talked about why parenting is the wrong term.
1:08.0	And in that episode we talked about the word becoming becoming why the word becoming we feel is a better
1:13.9	term for it and although it doesn't describe at all in relationship with the child so people
1:21.8	wouldn't know it has any reference to being a parent right or having small people So let's just talk about that today.
1:29.4	In light of, in light of a Bible study we have coming out called Homegrown,
1:35.2	cultivating kids in the Fruit of the Spirit, which I'm super pumped about because
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