From Toddlers to Teens: Motherhood in Every Season
The Live Out Loud Show
Brooke Thomas
5.0 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this heartfelt episode, Brooke Thomas welcomes guest Heather Torres for an honest and uplifting conversation on motherhood, just in time for Mother's Day. Together, they share wisdom from their personal journeys as mothers of daughters, touching on the power of intentional prayer, speaking life over children, and fostering family culture rooted in honor and respect. Brooke and Heather offer practical tips for navigating parenting challenges at every stage—from toddlers to teens to young adults—including how to champion your kids' individuality, set healthy boundaries, and rely on faith when answers aren't clear. With relatable stories, actionable advice, and encouragement for moms in every season, this episode reminds listeners to cherish each moment and trust God's guidance in the parenting journey.
Show Notes:
Timestamps:
💕 01:44 – Power of Prayer: Brooke shares how praying over her daughters—at every stage, from babies to young adults—has shaped their lives and relationships.
💕 03:27 – Parenting with Positivity: Rejecting negative labels like "terrible twos" or "horrible teenage years" in favor of speaking life and positivity into every season.
💕 07:55 – Encouraging Responsibility: Brooke explains how she and Brett empowered their daughters to research and present their case for what they wanted, fostering responsibility and independent thinking.
💕 10:54 – Honoring with Respect: Discussing the importance of treating children with honor and respect, and how the family works as a team, emphasizing "family contributions" over traditional chores.
💕 13:49 – Supporting Their Dreams: Brooke recalls navigating her daughter's choice to attend college across the country, honoring her voice and supporting her dreams despite personal hesitation.
💕 23:56 – Handling Challenges with Prayer: When unsure how to parent through difficult seasons, Brooke and Brett turn to dedicated prayer, witnessing breakthroughs and guidance beyond their own understanding.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Live Out Loud Show. I'm your host, Brooke Thomas. And I'm so excited because I'm |
| 0:09.5 | actually doing this podcast in my home today with one of my best girlfriends, Heather Torres, |
| 0:15.3 | and we're talking all things motherhood. So lean in. This is going to be a good one. Oh, I'm so excited, Brooke, to be able to talk to you about this. Mother's Day is right around the corner. So I thought, okay, if I'm coming in and we're going to hang out and do podcasts together, we have to talk about motherhood. We're both mothers of daughters. I have sons also, but I think there's something special about having a daughter. And as we approach Mother's Day, |
| 0:39.0 | I thought, what a great conversation to have because, you know, from being in your home, |
| 0:43.4 | seeing how for years now, seeing how you and Brett parents, it's just such an eye-opener to me |
| 0:49.9 | of how to actually live that out and raise incredible girls. |
| 0:54.4 | Your girls are incredible. They're how old now? Thank you. 17 and 20. I can't believe it. 17 and 20. That's insane. Baby adults, I call them. They are, but they're such good girls. I mean, such good women. You know, they're turning into women, Brooke. I know. Yeah. I know. Yeah. So I want to talk to you a little bit. |
| 1:11.5 | You and I had a discussion in the kitchen ahead of time because I was like, Brooke, my daughter's 16 now. We're stepping into all the things 16. So please, as my big sister, help me with this a little bit. And what are some things that you and Brett do that have created such incredible young women? I think there's a couple things that you talked about. And I think the first one was the power of prayer over your kids. So we're going to give you listener a couple things to take notes on. But that I think was one of the biggest things a couple of years ago that you were like, that for me was an aha. Like, of course the power of prayer over my kids. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah, I'm so glad that somebody told me this when the girls were really little. But I just want to tell you no matter what stage that your kids are at, like, no matter what age they're at, you can start this at any time. So even if you have adult children and you're listening to this, start it now if you haven't been doing this. But I'm so glad that somebody came into our life when they were babies. And they said, |
| 2:05.0 | listen, start praying over your kids when they're sleeping. Start praying over them when they're at |
| 2:09.8 | school. Start praying over their future husbands. And I remember thinking praying over their future |
| 2:14.8 | husbands. This is really weird when they're like two and five. But we have been praying over their purity over their future husbands, this is really weird when they're like two in five. |
| 2:17.8 | Yeah. But we have been praying over their purity, over their future husbands, over the way that they would be as teenagers since they were babies. |
| 2:26.6 | And it did feel a little awkward, but I just believed in it. I would pray things like, God, these are your daughters. |
| 2:33.5 | And this is what we desire, |
| 2:35.5 | but we don't always know what to do. So we're asking you for help. We're asking you for support. |
| 2:41.2 | You're our father and you're their father too. I know it sounds, again, if you're new to this, |
| 2:45.4 | it sounds a little awkward and it does feel a little awkward at first. I'm not going to lie. |
| 2:50.4 | But listen, |
| 2:51.1 | they're 17 and 20. And I can honestly tell you every stage we have enjoyed because it has |
| 2:57.7 | been a challenge sometimes, but we have given everything to God at every stage. And we always |
| 3:03.5 | said when they were little, I'm like, I don't want to be the parent that says things like |
| 3:07.8 | terrible twos or the horrible teenage years. We decided early on to say the terrific twos, |
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