Welcome to Crages Parenting Podcast, a weekly show to quit parents with biblical truth on raising

confident Christian kids in an uncertain world. Hi, I'm Angie from Crages Mom.

And I'm Isaac from Resolute Man. We've been married for 21 years and have seen the fruit from

raising our eight kids biblically based on the raw truth found in the Bible. We can no longer let

the culture win the hearts of children. Too many children from Christian families are walking

away from their faith by age 18 and it doesn't have to be this way. It should and be this way. Join us

as we start an important conversation about effective parenting and following.

Welcome back to the podcast. Hey guys. We got a quick episode for you. Four proactive decisions

parents should make right now. So these are topics that we are currently working on ourselves.

Absolutely. And we should always be thinking what is the future require of us that's not

necessary today. Meaning what decisions do we need to be making proactively even when there

is an urgency. And that's hard to do in the business of life. That's right. I mean, I'll give you

even a quick example, a little taste test before we dive fully in here. I remember 15 years ago

when we were living on the vineyard in Damascus and at the time I think we had, oh I think we had

four kids and I was pregnant with our fifth or something like that. And you know there was this

we had we were trying to do gardening. We were starting out doing that kind of stuff. But I

found that going to grocery store all the time was not really a great idea with so many little

kids. Maybe you guys can relate, right? And even though I had been training my kids to be helpful

in the grocery store going there every week took a huge chunk out of our day. It exhausted everybody.

And so being able to plan ahead knowing what I was going to be preparing for meals for example or

knowing what are staples that I can buy in bulk. So I have them on hand so I don't have to buy them

in small quantities helped me to not have to go grocery shopping as often. Now it's a really great

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