A Child’s Longing for Safety and Presence

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Kids are vulnerable, and vulnerability longs for safety. Perhaps it’s no wonder Jesus tells us to become like little children. Over time, our hearts grow hardened.

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

Show Notes:
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Transcript

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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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