What if the way that you've been taught to parent in Christian circles has also been

leading to damaging relationships with your kids, with your spouse, and even with God.

That's what we are going to talk about on today's Bear Marriage Podcast.

Hello and welcome, I'm Sheila Ray Gregmar Marriage.com where we like to talk about healthy,

evidence-based, biblical advice for your sex life and your marriage.

But you know what?

The same trends that can so often make our marriage advice toxic in Christian circles also

makes our parenting advice toxic and so today we're going to have an interview with

a couple who has written just an amazing

amazing new book on parenting that I hope will become the standard

for what we use so I'm excited to bring that to you in just a minute.

But first we have a couple of announcements.

Our new book, The Marriage You Want,

is now available for pre-order.

Last winter, we asked as many of you as possible to take our marriage our

marriage survey or matched pair survey and that is all done. The book is all

written and it is coming out in March and when you pre-order it early you help Amazon know hey

this book is going to sell really well so they order more so they don't run out on

launch day which is really crucial and also the more people who order it the more Amazon tends to lower the price and

other platforms lower the price too if you don't want to buy through Amazon.

And when it rises up the ranks in ratings, bookstores other retailers tend to order it in as well

because they know oh this is the book that's going to do well so by

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