Hey you guys, this is Heidi C. John. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the busy mom podcast today is Wednesday, February 28th.

It's the last day of February. You guys, moment of silence.

Where did February go? Well, I am, I'm excited today because Monday you guys heard my friend and done again back on the podcast with me, which would normally have been

mailbox Monday, but because my family's been wrestling through the flu, I decided to go ahead and just push that one forward. So it'd give me another day to sort of recuperate and get my kids on the mend.

And we're doing a whole lot better over here. So I'm going to go ahead and tackle some of your questions here at mailbox Wednesday.

So if if you've been needing some encouragement with parenting, particularly where it comes to engaging with your children and the culture, stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

So I have been going through some of my letters about that come into me at podcast at the busy mom. So if you're not familiar with mailbox Monday, typically I realize this is Wednesday, but typically how that works is that I go through.

I go through and I categorize your emails as they come to me. So if you have a question that you would like to see answered over at the busy mom podcast, shoot me an email podcast at the busy mom.com. I also want to point out before I tackle your questions. And I'm going to try to get to three of them today.

So, but they all kind of have to do the same thing. But I wanted to let you know that today is the last day of February. And that means that tomorrow is the first day of March.

And that means that we have a brand new scripture writing challenge coming up for you. And I, if you're already a member of mom, starting a national. It's already there. You can already see it.

But I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be changing a little bit of the format over at mom, strong international. So we've been doing weekly studies for you that correspond with the scripture writing challenge.

But because of the questions I'm getting at the podcast, I decided to go ahead and change the format of that a little bit. And so you're going to get this time. You're going to get the whole month in one fell swoop. So you'll get the whole month of study along with your scripture writing challenge. And we're going to be focusing for the month of March on the traits, five traits in particular of false teachers.

This is something we've been, we talk about quite a bit at mom, strong international and certainly when I'm speaking out on the speaker circuit and at the mom, strong conference.

And I wanted to let you know we were here. We're hearing you. And so we're taking you a little bit deeper into the study of how can we determine what's false teaching and what isn't. So if you haven't joined mom, strong international yet. Now is a phenomenal time to do that.

And I just want to encourage you. If you're encouraged by what we do here at the podcast and you want to go a little a little bit deeper into God's word of this. Not only is it going to be really good for your soul and your spirit and encouragement as you raise your children to love and fall the Lord.

But it also is a great way that you can support the ministry.

That is the Heidi St. John podcast and mom, strong international just by becoming a subscriber either monthly or annually.

That will be a huge blessing to us. The the scripture writing challenge remains free of charge and all you got to do is register for free account at mom, strong international.com.

So here are just a few of the questions that I've been getting lately at the busy mom podcast. How do you support a child when they're not doing the right thing. What are the guidelines for tough love. So that's one.

There's the next one. When you as parents are on the threshold of the next realm of parenting. In other words, middle school or adolescence. What are some practical guidelines that we can follow in regards to how far we let the rope go and how much freedom and dependence we start off with.

That's a great question that came from a listener in New York. This says, what was the best way or what is the best way to equip our teens to interact with culture on gender issues and homosexuality, which really goes right into the next question.

This comes from another listener in New Jersey and she says my child age 13 feels there's nothing wrong with homosexuality and gay marriage and has a soft spot for this transgender thing because she knows people who are gay and has two friends who are quote questioning.

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