Behind the Scenes of Truly "Successful" Parenting with Helen Smallbone

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to be a "successful" parent? And what does it mean to raise "successful" kids? Though the world has one definition for this term, we talk to a mom (and grandma) this week who is on the other side of the trenches, having successfully raised her seven kids in every sense of the word.

Helen Smallbone is a co-founder of MUMlife Community and a podcast host with AccessMore, as well as a mom of Grammy Award-winning artists: Rebecca St. James and FOR KING + COUNTRY. In this episode, we talk with Helen about her new book Behind the Lights: The Extraordinary Adventure of a Mum and Her Family, and what her journey looked like behind the scenes of instilling faith in seven children.

We talk to her about:

* How to go deeper in conversations with your kids and find the "why" behind their actions
* Ways to prioritize self-care and solitude as a parent
* Strategies Helen used to handle sibling rivalry in her home
* The weight of pointing our kids to Jesus
* The power of simply asking God for help

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B3Z69otsno

Show Notes

-- Order a copy of Behind the Lights: The Extraordinary Adventure of a Mum and Her Family:
https://amzn.to/3dkONd5

Learn more about the MUMlife Community:
www.mumlife.org

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:06.3	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:16.3	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:18.8	Today we have an incredible mother, grandmother,
0:23.5	and really the thing that I love is she's a Jesus follower, like to the core. And we get to learn from her today.
0:31.7	So normally we're interviewing people who are in the trenches. We're now interviewing somebody who has done this successfully.
0:41.2	It's through the trenches. It's through the trenches. Helen Smallbone, thank you so much for
0:48.0	joining the Famous at Home podcast. My pleasure. Thank you very much for inviting me.
0:53.0	Yeah. So Helen, you wrote a book called Behind the Lights is the name of the book.
0:58.0	And you talk about your incredible journey to raising all of your children.
1:04.0	I would love for you to take a moment and introduce yourself, introduce your children from your perspective.
1:13.6	Well, I've been married for 47 years. I'm now 67, so getting up there, I don't understand
1:20.7	totally why God opened or got me to write a book when I should be retiring and having the
1:25.8	time of my life. Anyway, he works in mysterious ways.
1:30.8	But we have, David and I have seven children.
1:34.2	We had six back in Australia.
1:36.4	We lived a fairly normal Christian life back in Australia.
1:40.2	Our kids were in Christian schools.
1:43.2	Yeah, we lived in a nice suburb.
1:46.0	We had our home, you know, whatever.
1:48.0	Well, my husband has been in Christian music pretty much since its inception in the late 1970s.
1:55.0	And he was a Christian concert promoter.
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