Everyday Realities of Parenting: Constant Demands & Interruptions

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we address listener submitted questions, each of them around the constant demands and interruptions that come with raising children. Christi also walks us through an exercise to help calm nervous system dysregulation.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
4:15 Costco trips, homeschooling, and the evolution of a marriage and family
8:48 A practical exercise for nervous system regulation in the moment
15:55 Listener question: Mom of 4 littles trying to find a soul at rest with all the demands
26:36 Listener question: How to prioritize our sanity when constantly interrupted

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What if God wants to do something else in our life to celebrate the good that day?
0:04.6	And oftentimes what I find is that he's asking me to pursue a relationship.
0:09.9	So I might start my day by sitting down at my desk, right on the other side of this camera that you're watching.
0:15.3	And I'll say, Lord, silence the enemy, quiet my thoughts, give me the mind of Christ, and show me what you need me to know for today. And I would say 90% of the enemy, quiet my thoughts, give me the mind of Christ and show me what you need me to
0:20.9	know for today. And I would say 90% of the time, it is, has to do with a relationship, it doesn't
0:28.4	have to do with a task. He's showing me something. He might highlight Christy. He might highlight
0:33.3	one of my kids specifically. He might highlight, hey, I want you to go and I want you to make breakfast to everybody.
0:39.5	I might, and I'm going, okay, God, but that's interrupting my work schedule that I had planned.
0:44.5	But I always find that when I say yes to those things, there is a much more joyful part of my day.
0:52.5	It just goes differently.
0:54.1	I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down.
1:02.6	I'll just let go and I'll try.
1:06.7	Help me walk this road and find my way back home.
1:12.6	Find my way back home.
1:22.6	Welcome back to the Famous Sit Home podcast.
1:29.0	We are delighted to be with you.
1:31.0	I've got my wife, Christy, back with me this week.
1:33.5	I'm so glad to be back.
1:35.5	I'm refreshed.
1:36.8	Thanks for letting me go.
1:38.3	You're welcome.
1:39.0	I had such a great trip.
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