Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Andrew Walker entitled,

Four Issues Your Children Are Facing, That You Never Had to.

Andrew is the co-author of What Do I Say When?

A Parents' Guide to Navigating Cultural Chaos for Children and and teens from Crossway.

Four issues your children are facing that you never had to.

Written and read by Andrew Walker.

Parenting in this culture is fraught with challenges that our parents did not encounter when we were kids.

Our parents took certain things for granted that our generation of parenting no longer can.

For example, the idea of pronoun preference was inconceivable 20 or 30 years ago.

Parenting in today's culture can seem like a boat headed out into uncharted waters.

The good news is that even though the culture may throw new challenges in the face of Christian parents,

we believe that scripture speaks a better, inspired, and authoritative word in which to anchor our parenting.

What's fascinating in the current cultural moment is that even non-Christians agree that many of the biggest

changes in our culture are posing massive threats to childhood well-being. This means that

parenting is growing more difficult because it requires living in a culture that actively undermines,

among other things, the innocence and mental health of children. We should also be

encouraged that despite what seems to be very strong headwinds that cause challenges for parents

today, the formula for parenting remains fairly simple, intentional engagement, tender-hearted love,

and godly authority. That raises an important question. What in America's cultural landscape

has changed that requires more intentionality on the part of Christian parents? Many topics could

be discussed related to this issue, but here are four unique pressure points that have changed

the landscape for Christian parenting in this generation, requiring us to have a strategy for how to remain faithful.

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