How To Not Raise Entitled Kids (No Matter How Much you Bless Them)

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

One of the most common questions I get is, "how do we raise our kids who aren't entitled...especially if we've had success in some aspects of life?"

And it makes sense.

Most of us are who we are because of the struggles we've had to endure to get here. We value what we have, we aren't entitled. But...so many kids (and adults) these days are. Why?

It turns out there's one very basic (but countercultural) thing you can do that will allow you to bless your kids to the moon and back without them becoming entitled.

Listen in as Jeremy and April teach us how to make sure our kids turn out like the Sea of Galilee (abundant, full of life), not the Dead Sea (salty and dead!).

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

3:23 The one move that ensures your kids will not become entitled, no matter how much you bless them

11:43 Answering the biggest critique

23:49 What it's like having your daughters embrace motherhood right away

32:21 "It is as it should be."

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How To Raise Kids Who Want To Be Parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqiY6WkKH7U

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0:00.0	My point is that when you're pouring all this entitlement, all these blessings on your kids,
0:05.2	financial blessings and entertainment, all these things, and then on top of that, you say,
0:09.5	and spend your 20s and maybe half your 30s, all focused on you. You have, congratulations,
0:14.5	created an incredibly entitled person. They're going to be so self-centered. And imagine
0:19.7	marrying somebody like that. You know? It's like,
0:22.5	this is how you sterilize an entire generation. Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here
0:30.9	is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically
0:36.5	rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.
0:39.0	Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all
0:43.6	things family.
0:45.2	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
0:47.3	Babe, what's up?
0:48.2	How are you doing today?
0:49.8	Hey, I'm good.
0:52.0	Yeah?
0:52.2	It is, uh, yes, the height of summer. It's almost 4th of July. Very good. Yeah. It is, uh, yes, the height of summer.
0:55.7	It's almost 4th of July.
0:56.9	Very exciting.
0:58.4	Yes.
0:59.2	Our town does it up with the parade and fireworks and things like that.
1:04.5	So it'll be really fun.
1:06.2	And people are already putting their chairs out on the parade route, even though it's like on, so in July 1st, this weird thing happens. Our town is so safe. You can just put all your chairs out. Apparently, nobody takes them. Days and days ahead of time. So it's, it's an epic Fourth of July parade. People from all over Cincinnati come to our little town of Fort Thomas to check it out.
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