Get Them In The Game: Father of 10 Jason Weening on Intentional Family Life
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy is joined by Jason Weening, husband, father of 10, homesteader, and author.
Learn the wisdom that's discovered by necessity when you've got a big family that can help you navigate your own family...whether big or small!
Jason talks about how to manage a family with 10 kids spanning 18 years, how to get your kids to sacrifice for the family without traumatizing them or creating resentment, how he navigates the creative process and successfully published a book, and why we need to get our kids into the game.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:48 Writing a kids book that includes family and mentorship themes
4:01 The inspiration for Jason to focus so much on family and building a large one
7:25 Building a family on mission for the Kingdom
9:34 How to manage a family with 10 kids across 18 years
12:42 Living situations with a big family (and why Jason picked homesteading)
16:30 How to get kids to sacrifice for your family without harming them
22:00 Creative process and output as a dad of 10
28:54 Living a life with mistakes and opting out of a culture of curated perfection
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Danger in the Jungle by Jason Weening
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| 0:00.0 | I heard a dad once say he had like eight or nine kids and they like played fiddles and danced |
| 0:05.3 | and sang and the youngness was like five doing this stuff and I was just blown away and he said |
| 0:11.1 | something during their concert that we went to. He said, you got to give your kids a chance to get |
| 0:15.9 | in the game. Like if your kids are just playing piano all the time and okay, practice piano, practice piano, |
| 0:22.2 | well, that's okay. But if you have a, if you're in a baseball team and all you're going to do |
| 0:26.7 | all summer is have a practice every week, that's not going to motivate anyone. Like even a |
| 0:31.5 | scrimmage to split the team up and let's have a game. But let's actually have a real game against, |
| 0:36.5 | you know, the enemy town on the other |
| 0:38.3 | side of the county and let's compete together. He said, we've got to give our kids opportunities |
| 0:43.0 | to get in the game. Hi, welcome to the family team's podcast. Our goal here is to help your |
| 0:50.4 | family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted |
| 0:55.7 | concepts, tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait |
| 1:01.5 | to chat about all things family. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the family teams podcast. I'm excited to |
| 1:09.5 | introduce you guys to Jason Weaning. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Jeremy. I appreciate it. Appreciate everything you guys are doing and look forward to talking with you. Yeah. So 10 kids and the span is quite remarkable. They've got one 18 year old that's off at school and a six-month-old. What life must be like in your household with that span is quite |
| 1:29.6 | remarkable. So I'd love to hear more about that. But they also were in the Dominican Republic |
| 1:34.3 | for six months doing missions. But the latest is that Jason's got a book. He's working on |
| 1:40.2 | trilogy. And so I wanted to hear a little bit more about that. So I kind of want to start with just the |
| 1:45.8 | book and then we'll end. I want to hear a little bit more about that towards the end. But yeah, |
| 1:49.2 | tell me a little bit about what brought you guys, what brought you to wanting to write a book and |
| 1:53.5 | tell us a little bit about it. Sure. Yeah, thanks, Jeremy. Yeah, we've got 10 kids. |
| 1:57.1 | Kids love reading. Like we don't have a TV, so there's lots of reading that happens around here. |
| 2:02.6 | And we're always looking for good books for our kids. We homeschool them, you know, lots of go to |
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