5 Ways to Find "the Good" for Your Family This Christmas

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why does it feel like stress always has the loudest voice during “busy” seasons? We want everyone in our family to get along, enjoy the holidays, and be truly present. Yet, it seems we all too often end up bickering, overwhelmed, and somehow wishing it could be different.

Good news! Your family doesn’t have to succumb to the stress. You can find “the good!” In this episode, we walk through 5 ways to find “the good,” not just at Christmastime, but in any busy season you find yourself in.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:22 “Experiencing” Advent as a family
5:42 Make quick decisions
11:20 Get off screens
15:00 Say yes, to the hard, but good thing
18:50 Say no to what feels disconnecting
22:02 pursue relationships
24:47 The faces of those under your roof

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0:00.0	We want to be able to be present in those moments where you soak them in.
0:05.5	You're at the Christmas parade with your family, and your mind isn't racing, and you're just looking around,
0:11.0	and you're taking in the Grinch for the 15th time, because everybody in a Christmas parade dresses as the Grinch.
0:17.0	You see Santa Claus at the end of the parade. You're smelling the, the crisp, cool air.
0:23.9	Whatever it is, like be in the moment, holding your kid's hand as they're walking down the
0:28.5	street, putting them up on your shoulders to see better over the crowd, like just soaking it in
0:34.7	and going, we're living it, we're doing it.
0:39.4	Do you have those moments?
0:40.8	Say yes to them.
0:47.4	Say yes to the things that might be hard, but they're going to be good and find the good in them. I won't lose hope in the night when the fire's growing down
0:55.0	I'll just let go and I'll try
0:59.0	Help me walk this road and find my way back home
1:05.0	Find my way back home
1:09.0	Find my way back home.
1:18.6	Welcome back to the famous and home podcast.
1:22.1	I'm so delighted to be with you once again today talking about ways to make Christmas less stressful.
1:28.5	These are some ways that we have actually made the holidays less stressful for us,
1:33.8	which is amazing.
1:35.9	By the way, last week, Brad Gray, the Lord's Prayer, I hope you enjoyed that episode.
1:42.1	You can now watch that on Angel Studios.
1:44.4	You can get that book.
1:46.1	It's been really cool for us as a family to start walking through the Lord's Prayer.
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