House or Home - Parenting Edition - What's a Parent to Do?, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
Living on the Edge
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
You want your kids to turn out well. You want to have a great relationship with them when they’re grown. You want them to love God and others. So how do you get there? In this message, Chip looks at God’s design for successful parenting.
Main Points
God's prescription for child development - Hebrews 12:4-11
How to parent with love and limits:
- Actions = Consistent consequences - Proberbs 13:24; 22:15
- Words = Clear instructions - Proverbs 1:8; 2:1-2; 3:1; 7:1-2
Practical tips for balanced parenting:
- Have a few, clear rules/responsibilities.
- Develop written contracts.
- Negotiate consequences.
- Be consistent!
- The older they get, the fewer the rules.
- Train them to be on their own.
Broadcast Resource
Additional Resource Mentions
- Free Parenting Resources
- Book - Parenting with Love and Logic by Kevin Lema
- Book - Dare to Discipline by James Dobson
About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
Connect
Partner With Us
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Let's face it. We all want our kids to turn out right. We want to have a great |
| 0:06.0 | relationship with them when they grow up and we want them to love God and others. |
| 0:10.2 | It's pretty simple. Here's the question. What do we exactly do to see that happen? |
| 0:16.0 | If you're interested, stay with me. That's today. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:26.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians |
| 0:30.0 | through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:32.0 | And in just a minute, he'll continue our series, |
| 0:34.4 | House or Home, Parenting Edition, |
| 0:37.1 | highlighting some specific roles |
| 0:38.8 | and responsibilities of moms and dads laid out for us |
| 0:41.7 | in God's word. |
| 0:43.2 | Well, there's a lot of helpful advice and wisdom to get to. |
| 0:45.8 | So if you're ready, go in your Bible to Ephesians chapter 6 |
| 0:48.9 | for Chip's Talk, what's a parent to do? |
| 0:52.6 | It was about, oh, I'd have to say, |
| 0:56.3 | my kids were all pretty small. |
| 0:58.4 | Even my oldest were probably maybe 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 years old, right in there. |
| 1:03.8 | And we had some younger ones, and I was like many parents |
| 1:06.2 | reading a lot of books on how to be a good parent. |
| 1:09.2 | I was overwhelmed, didn't know what I was doing. |
| 1:11.4 | They seemed to be doing okay, but what I knew was I had not a clue. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Living on the Edge, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Living on the Edge and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.