Episode 111: When You’ve Tried Everything in Parenting: Taking a Leap of Faith
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Parenting is hard work, and sometimes we wish there was a perfect formula we could use to make it easier. We seek parenting hacks and different tips to help streamline our lives, and while some of those things are helpful, most of the time, we still feel there’s something missing. We’re left wondering, “What’s the formula for success in parenting?”
My guest, Julie Lowe, is here to tell us that there isn’t a formula for successful parenting. But don’t be discouraged. God has already given us everything we need to parent well in his Word. Julie explores this topic in her book, Child Proof: Parenting by Faith, Not Formula. In this episode, Julie shares with us what it means to parent by faith, describes how this can play out in our homes, and explains why parenting methods based on biblical principles always work.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I can look at your family and say, wow, what you are doing really seems to be working. |
| 0:15.0 | And then I tried a cookie cutter it to my home and all of a sudden it's not working. |
| 0:19.0 | Why? I'd argue it's not because the biblical |
| 0:21.5 | principle is not working. It's because I'm trying to apply it in ways that aren't helpful |
| 0:25.1 | or productive to my kids or my home. |
| 0:34.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast and a very happy new year to you. |
| 0:41.8 | As always, if you are part of the foster care community, passionate about serving or simply |
| 0:47.1 | interested in learning more, we are here for you. We are starting 2021 off with an incredible conversation about parenthood with my guest |
| 0:57.9 | Julie Lowe. Julie is a licensed professional counselor with over 15 years of counseling experience |
| 1:04.0 | and she loves Jesus. Parenting, it's hard work, isn't it? And it gets especially difficult when we allow perfectionism |
| 1:13.4 | to settle into our hearts. I can struggle with this. I so deeply want to do it right and well |
| 1:19.8 | that I can put this unhelpful pressure on myself. And then when I mess up, because I do, I'm human, |
| 1:27.3 | I deal with guilt and even shame can try to |
| 1:30.3 | creep in. Do you relate to this? There are times when we want this perfect formula that we can just |
| 1:36.8 | copy and paste onto our lives to make it all easier. But at one point or another, the parenting |
| 1:42.7 | hacks, the tips, the tricks, they just don't work. |
| 1:47.3 | Today, Julie shares with us what it means to parent by faith. |
| 1:51.4 | And she describes how this can play out in our homes. |
| 1:54.4 | And she even explains why parenting methods based on biblical principles always work, no matter what the makeup of your family is. |
| 2:02.9 | Before we head to the show, I want to ask you something. |
| 2:06.1 | If you've been encouraged by this podcast in the past, will you share it today with a friend? |
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