Fighting for Connection, Being Present with our Kids + Leading with Vulnerability (Interview with Ruth Chou Simons)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, we welcomed back Ruth Chou Simons — author, artist, podcaster, and mom of six(!) boys — for an inspiring conversation about nurturing relationships with our kids.
Ruth shared her wisdom on fighting for connection, especially during the teenage years, emphasizing the importance of leading with vulnerability. We explored the idea of viewing parenting as a journey rather than a destination, the importance of feeling empowered in our role as parents, the art of consistently pursuing our kids at every stage, and so much more.
We also discussed Ruth’s beautiful new children’s book, Home Is Right Where You Are, inspired by Psalm 23. Ruth shared how a personal, unexpected challenge solidified the very message of her book — that God, as our Shepherd, calls us to abide in Him. This truth has transformed how she entrusts her kids to His care, realizing that home isn’t a place but a posture of resting in God’s presence.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 0:06.3 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 0:10.0 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 0:13.5 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 0:24.4 | All right, welcome back to the show. Ruth, how are you? |
| 0:28.0 | I'm doing so well. And thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:33.6 | Oh, you're welcome. We were just talking right before we started. And these are always just the most funny. I mean, we're a very real transparent podcast. So like we have, you know, |
| 0:38.5 | you have pre-conversation. So this is the second time we're saying hi. We're saying hi to |
| 0:41.4 | everyone else for the podcast. But thank you. We were just commenting on how the last |
| 0:47.2 | conversation we had, it was, we couldn't figure out if it was 21 or 22. We could look back. |
| 0:52.1 | We'll figure it out. But it was such a rich |
| 0:54.6 | conversation. And there was a lot of encouragement, feedback just really had, for anyone that |
| 1:00.1 | was listening, it just had a lot of impact. And so thank you for taking the time again to come back |
| 1:04.9 | on and talk about some of not only life updates, which we're going to talk about, but also |
| 1:08.7 | some of the new work that you have, which we're going to talk about in our conversation. But where are you at? Tell everyone where |
| 1:13.9 | you're filming from today. Well, I am at home in Western Colorado. I don't know if you guys |
| 1:20.7 | know that I live at like 8,000 foot elevation. So it's like in the mountains. And we should be getting snow snow soon but there's no snow on the ground yet |
| 1:31.1 | wait wait wait you're 8,000 feet and you don't have snow yet not yet I mean we've had snow earlier |
| 1:36.9 | in the season already but I thought we would be dealing with a lot of snow already and there's not |
| 1:43.5 | anything yet not this week it's pretty |
| 1:45.8 | bare right now it's kind of crazy yeah do people get sick coming to your house does like |
| 1:50.5 | elevation sickness happen at that level or no well i had a really wonderful photographer |
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