In the Wilkin Home with Jen Wilkin

The Family Discipleship Podcast

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

5.0 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the fourth episode of the Family Discipleship Podcast the hosts (Adam Griffin, Cassie Bryant, and Chelsea Griffin) talk with their friend and special guest Jen Wilkin. Jen is an author and bible teacher from Dallas Texas. To learn more about Jen you can follow her on instagram @jenwilkin and find out more about her ministry at jenwilkin.net. Questions we asked Jen in this episode:

Who is Jen the mom? What is the Wilkin family like?
What is it like for your family now entering into grandparent phase?
What kind of intentionality went into being available to your kids to talk about hard things?
None of us are perfect parents. Can you think of a time that things did not go “according to plan” in the Wilkin home?
What was some of the best wisdom you received from someone else about leading your family spiritually?
How did the attributes of God come up for you in conversations with your kids?
If you could go back to when your first child was born and give yourself one piece of advice about the Wilkin family’s spiritual life, what would you say?
Did y’all have formal time in the word together? Was everyone on their own? How did it change as your kids got older?
What are the prayers you prayed for your kids that you saw the Lord answer?
What role has the church played in coming alongside your family as you’ve discipled them?
Is there any scripture that you or your family can point to that has been a guide to you in how you’ve led your home?
What are the prayers you have for your kids right now?

Some of our favorite quotes from Jen Wilkin in this episode:

I did not want them to leave our home and find out we were human after they left. We wanted to work through some of that while they were still at home and we could parent through it.
I prayed that they could encounter real challenges that we could work through while they were still with us.
People want your kids to be something and they want you to be something. They want you to be a perfect parent and they want to know that doing the right things will yield the right outcomes. We prayed that our children would have the freedom to fail, even if it was a public failure, in a way that would build character in them and not bitterness.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.
0:12.9	This is Adam Griffin, and before I introduce you to our distinguished guests, let me first introduce
0:17.7	you to my two lovely co-host.
0:19.7	First, the president of the Wilkin family
0:21.6	fam club, Cassie Bryant. Cassie, how you doing today? I'm so good. I think you missed a word there.
0:26.4	It was the president of the Wilkin family Pugs fan club. Oh, oh, you just love the dogs.
0:32.0	It's mostly the Pugs. Jen, how many dogs do you have in your house? Is it 10 to 20, 20 to 30?
0:40.6	You would think based on my Instagram account that there is a whole herd, but it's just two, just a nice moderate number of pugs.
0:47.4	Modern number of bugs. Well, we already jumped to Jen, but first let me introduce my other co-host, a true woman of the word.
0:53.3	Ms. Chelsea Griffin, how are you doing today?
0:55.2	I'm good and I'm disappointed that when I ran for president of the Wilkins Family Fan Club,
1:01.0	I lost to Cassie Bryant.
1:04.0	I'm sorry.
1:05.2	I would accept the vice president.
1:06.8	I need a historian, actually, and I need you to run AV for the Wilkin Family Fan Club, if that's all right. I'm not good at either of those. Well, it's a distinct honor to have with us today. One of Family Discipleship Podcasts, top 10, most influential guests we've ever had, Miss Jen Wilkin. Hi, guys. Jen, how are you? I'm good. How's everybody? Oh, so good. It's Friday. Yeah. It's Friday here. Yeah. Oh, man. We're so happy to have you on, Jen. I know we could probably spend the episode talking about pugs, but before we jump in, let me just give a personal encouragement. When we were first becoming parents, Chelsea and I, Chelsea took you out for coffee.
1:44.8	You may remember, although you've taken, you've been out to coffee with probably one million
1:49.3	women in the DFW area, but Chelsea took you out for coffee. That's a good rough estimate, yeah.
1:54.8	But Chelsea asked you about disciplining our kids and it made such a huge impact on our family
1:59.6	from the very beginning. And so getting to talk with you about this topic is really special. You may remember, well, let me say it like this. Do you remember the question she was most concerned about? I think it was, I don't want to say it if I'm wrong. You can say it. Was it about work? Was it about work? No. We had like a six-month-old baby. So this was almost 10 years ago. And the most important thing I wanted to ask you is how do we make sure our kids are funny? Oh, that's right. Because I was like, I'm so sanctified now. I don't want to show them all this garbage on the stuff that helped me become funny. but I would like them to be funny and get sanctified now. I don't want to show them all this garbage on the stuff that helped me become funny.
2:35.3	But I would like them to be funny and get sanctified. And now I don't know how to do that.
2:40.2	Yeah, it's tough. Because we love that ironic humor that sometimes wanders into sarcasm. And it's like,
2:47.2	oh gosh, I don't want to raise mean, funny kids. I want to just raise funny, funny kids. But a lot of my humor historically has walked the line. Oh, yes. Yeah, it's tricky. Are your kids funny? Yeah, our littlest one's real funny. But, yeah, some of them struggle with the when and how to use sarcasm. Oh, yeah, the little one's funny. Yeah. But the when and how of sarcasm is still real tough for the kids.
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