3 Faith Principles for Navigating Youth Sports, with Dr. Dave.
The Monica Swanson Podcast - boy mom, build strong families, Biblical worldview, women's wellness
Monica Swanson and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to part II of our summer series on parenting and youth sports. Be sure to catch last week’s (packed!) episode if you missed it! Today my husband Dave is with us to consider 3 important FAITH PRINCIPLES that impact our kids’ athletic endeavors.
Background: Dave played soccer through the collegiate and professional level, and we are both super competitive people. We have navigated parenting our four sons through all kinds of recreational sports, and now our son, Luke, is a professional surfer, and our youngest son, Levi, is passionate about competitive golf.
In today's episode Dave and I are passing on principles that we have learned and are constantly working on in our own family. From the purpose of sports, to helping kids remain grounded in their identity (apart from sports), to keeping our family's priorities straight, I think this is all practical and relevant to all kinds of sports and other activities.
Whether your kids are highly competitive or just do sports for fun, I think we cover a lot of important ground in this conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian parenting. |
| 0:07.0 | Aloha friends and welcome to the Monica Swanson podcast powered by |
| 0:15.8 | Christian parenting I am Monica Swanson mom to four boys wife to Dr |
| 0:20.8 | Dave podcast host and author of Boy Mom, Raising Amazing, and the newly released |
| 0:27.3 | Becoming Home Schoolers. |
| 0:29.2 | Here on the podcast it is my goal to bring you practical advice and biblical wisdom for raising amazing kids and |
| 0:35.5 | building strong families. |
| 0:37.4 | You can always find show notes over at Monica Swanson.com forward slash podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm so glad you're here and I hope you'll be encouraged. |
| 0:47.0 | Aloha friends and welcome back to the podcast. I'm super excited to dive into part two in my summer three part series about navigating youth sports. If you missed last |
| 1:05.4 | week's episode I encourage you to go back. We covered so much with John O'Sullivan |
| 1:11.1 | really a great interview. |
| 1:13.2 | If you've got kids coming up in the youth sports scene, |
| 1:16.1 | whether they are just recreational athletes |
| 1:19.1 | or you've got some serious athletes |
| 1:21.4 | that you want to raise up for, you know, college |
| 1:23.9 | scholarships or something else. I think John O'Sullivan's wisdom will be |
| 1:27.4 | helpful to you and today I'm super excited that my husband Dave gets to join me |
| 1:32.4 | as we bring in a faith element to all of these |
| 1:35.8 | things talking about what it means as Christian families to raise young |
| 1:40.5 | athletes to raise kids who are participating in sports sometimes very seriously. |
| 1:45.0 | We've had some experience with that. We've had to ask ourselves a lot of questions. |
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