A Child’s Longing for Safety and Presence
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.8 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Josh describes what children need, and talks about the “why” behind the new KidsRQ (Relational Intelligence) curriculum.
*Note: This is a continuation from last week's episode Cultivating Relational Intelligence in Kids
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:20 The vulnerability and dependence of a child
9:40 The presence of Jesus in our healing journey
f11:50 KidsRQ curriculum layout and experiential exercises
16:35 Get in with a free trial of KidsRQ
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| 0:00.0 | In many cases, I think as odd as this sounds, it is the safest place in the world to be, is an utter dependence. |
| 0:09.3 | But yet it feels so vulnerable. |
| 0:11.5 | And that's how I see children. |
| 0:14.0 | Vulnerable, but longing for safety. |
| 0:18.6 | And maybe in some crazy way, I'm trying to correct what I lost at 10 years old |
| 0:25.7 | as part of this journey. Fire is growing down I'll just let go |
| 0:38.3 | and I'll try |
| 0:40.3 | help me walk this road |
| 0:42.3 | and find my way back home |
| 0:45.3 | find my way back home |
| 0:48.3 | Find my way back home. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome back to the famous zone podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we are in episode two of season six, |
| 1:06.0 | and we are talking about relational intelligence in kids. |
| 1:10.0 | If you're watching on YouTube, you'll notice we are back at the intelligence in kids. If you're watching on YouTube, |
| 1:11.9 | you'll notice we are back at the arena in an airstream in Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
| 1:16.0 | My friend Kevin Wall is with me again today. Before we jump into relational intelligence and kids, |
| 1:21.4 | we're going to talk a little about the curriculum. If you haven't listened to last week's |
| 1:24.8 | episode, I would highly encourage you to go listen to that because it was the introduction to what the world, how did all this come about? |
| 1:30.7 | Where are we in this process? |
| 1:32.9 | And everything's in the show notes there. |
| 1:34.6 | We're going to walk through Crickium a little bit today. |
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