Differing Parenting Styles, Distinguishing Your Pain From Your Child’s + Supporting Your Spouse Through Growth (Q+R)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week, all four of us sit down to respond to your thoughtful questions about parenting and marriage.
We start by exploring what to do when your parenting style differs from your spouse’s. Differences don’t have to be a problem — in fact, they can be a gift. But what about when the stakes are high, like deciding on the best schooling option for your child? We share how to find unity in your approach without erasing your unique perspectives.
Next, we wrestle with this challenge: when your child is hurting, how do you tell the difference between their pain and your own emotional response? And more importantly, how do you carry both with grace? This leads to a conversation on communication, repairing relationships, and allowing spiritual formation to shape the way we respond in the moment — offering the same comfort God gives us.
Finally, we talk about the beauty and challenge of change in marriage. Over a lifetime together, you will inevitably be married to different versions of your spouse — and they to you. How do you support each other’s growth, let go of the past, and move forward together?
Parenting and marriage are both marathons, not sprints — and we hope this conversation encourages you to lean into the differences, tend to the pain with compassion, and keep choosing each other in every season.
Scripture Mentioned: 1 Corinthians 1:10, 2 Corinthians 1:3-7, Exodus 34:5-7, Colossians 3:12, 1 Peter 3, Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 15:7, Ecclesiastes 4:9 + 1 John 3:2
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| 0:48.7 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 0:52.6 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 0:56.1 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 1:03.5 | Welcome back to the Intentional Parents' Podcast. |
| 1:05.8 | Your questions, we're answering them today. |
| 1:09.2 | We're very transparent. |
| 1:12.6 | We're a very honest group of people. Would you guys all agree? Yeah. We try to be. So yeah, there's some tension right now because Elizabeth |
| 1:17.9 | had to finish up a text and I'm trying to get this started and just like normal, I cannot get |
| 1:21.9 | this train going. So I'm happy we're all in all fairness on the intentional parents podcast, |
| 1:26.9 | I was texting one of our kids. Yeah, I know. That's right. That's right. And I mean, it's all good. It's a good thing. It's just hard when you have to do something. So, as you all know, we have a whole array of questions that get sent to us all the time. And I think it's really important |
| 1:44.6 | to highlight that we do not do Q&As. We do Q&Rs. We have questions and responses. So we're |
| 1:50.0 | going to respond to your questions. Also, you've been hearing the last couple weeks, and we |
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| 2:17.8 | know and Phil you were the one that told me I said this on a couple episodes ago but trust God and |
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