Welcome to the Intentional Parents Podcast. Intentional exists to help parents in their

God-given task to raise passionate Jesus followers. We exist to bring hope, help, and healing

to families. Each week we will talk about anything from parenting, marriage, lifestyle,

and what it looks like to follow Jesus in our time. Intentional is made up of

Phil and Diane Comer and Brooke and Elizabeth Moser. I am Brooke and the funny thing is we are all

family. Elizabeth is Phil and Diane's daughter so we're a family figuring this thing out together.

We hope this podcast feels like you're sitting with us in our home talking about how to do this

thing called life together. Elizabeth and I are your host. Let's get into this week's podcast.

All right, welcome back to the Intentional Parents Podcast. Thank you everybody for rating,

subscribing, leaving comments. We so appreciate that. If you haven't had a chance to do that,

would you just take 10, 15 seconds right now to rate the podcast and even subscribe. That's a way

that you can know whenever we release new content. One of the fun things we're doing right now

and this episode is going to be an intentional essential. That idea is that we are going to just

give one quick brief thought about one idea around the idea of parenting. The thing we want to

talk about today is the bottom up instead of the top down approach in the way we correct and

teach and love our kids. So that's the topic. Diane, why don't you start us with a scripture and

then I know we have three quick points and we'll be done. So start us. Well, an example of how

God does this with us. The idea of the bottom up approach. I think Elizabeth, you're going to

explain it. Why don't you explain it first? Sorry, that was a lot of fun. I take responsibility.

Elizabeth, you go first. Often our tendency when we see our children misbehaving or there's an

outburst of anger or they disobey us. Often our tendency is to just squash the behavior. Oh no,

you will obey me or you will not scream at your sister or whatever. That's our natural like

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