Welcome to the Aspester John Podcast this week we are joined by guest Ted Tripp, probably

best known for his two best-selling parenting books, Shepherding a Child's Heart and Instructing

a Child's Heart.

Dr. Tripp, thank you for joining us this week.

We have a big week ahead so let's get right into it and let's start big picture.

Parenting is hard and demanding work and I think every parent would agree with that.

But are the aims and goals of parenthood really all that complicated?

In other words, do Christian parents seem to oversimplify parenting or make it too complex?

What do you say?

Well, I think that you know as you said parenting is hard work and it requires time and

focus and intentionality but I don't think that necessarily has to be terribly complicated

either.

You know one of the problems we have I think in modern culture is that people want to

have children but they don't necessarily want to be parents.

You know we almost view children sometimes as possessions.

You know I've got these kids on the cute, especially when they're real young and everyone

oozing eyes over your children but the calling of being a parent is really a full-time

focus.

It's got to be one of the primary things that you're involved in when you're raising

children.

So I think Tony that knowing God, modeling God's ways for children is really the big picture

idea that I'm a Christian and I love God and I want to draw my children into that

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