Key Moments of 2025: Highlights from Our Most-Loved Episodes (Staying Calm, Emotional Intelligence, Shielding Our Kids, Tools of Discipline + Daily Habits)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This episode features five of our most-listened-to moments from 2025. These conversations clearly resonated with listeners and sparked meaningful reflection for parents trying to follow Jesus in everyday family life. We reflect on how pride shows up when we’re corrected and how parenting gives us daily opportunities to model humility, drawing from Scripture to show why God consistently meets humility with grace and makes it the starting point of a usable life. We also talk about emotional intelligence, learning to name what’s happening inside us without letting emotions rule us, and how many of us are developing these skills in adulthood because they weren’t modeled for us growing up.
We explore the tension between wanting to shield our kids from pain and learning to trust God with their formation, emphasizing the importance of repair, helping our kids make sense of emotional pain, and trusting that God is present and purposeful even in what we can’t control. We unpack the biblical call to discipline as loving training rather than punishment, why passivity and harshness both exasperate our children, and how rupture and repair are central to healthy parent-child relationships. Finally, we reflect on daily spiritual habits, letting go of legalism, and forming simple, life-giving rhythms with God — following Jesus’ example of regularly withdrawing to meet with the Father, not out of obligation, but out of relationship.
These clips are taken from our five most-loved episodes of 2025. To hear the full episodes, click on your podcast platform of choice below.
5 Necessities to Being a Calm, Regulated Parent in the Midst of Chaos + the Power of Meekness and Humility (Spotify, Apple Podcasts + YouTube)
Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence In Ourselves and In Our Kids (Spotify, Apple Podcasts + YouTube)
Being Emotionally Present with Toddlers Amidst Responsibilities, Dealing with Overstimulation as a Parent + Shielding Kids from Emotional Pain (Q+R) (Spotify, Apple Podcasts + YouTube)
Tools of Discipline: Gentle Correction, A Loving Rebuke, Patient Instruction and Encouragement (Spotify, Apple Podcasts + YouTube)
Daily Habits, Formation, Why Did God Create My Kids, and Authority (Spotify, Apple Podcasts + YouTube)
Scripture Mentioned: Ephesians 4:2, Matthew 11:28-30, Numbers 12:3, 1 Peter 5:5, Genesis 50:20, Genesis 39:21, Romans 8 + Psalm 91, Ephesians 6:4, Proverbs 29:17, Hebrews 12:11 + Ephesians 1:15-20
Books Mentioned: Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon, Streams in the Desert by L. B. Cowman and James Reimann + Edges of His Ways by Amy Carmichael
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| 0:00.0 | Attention mothers. We have the intentional motherhood retreat in Franklin, Tennessee in April, April 23rd, through the 25th to be exact. And if you haven't gotten tickets yet, we want to remind you, grab some tickets. We have group rates. We also have volunteer tickets. So if you're looking for a discounted ticket and want to come help a little bit, go to our website, Intentionalparents.org, get your tickets. Megan Fait Marshman's going to be there. Correta Eskridge is going to be there. Elizabeth and Diana sharing and other guests that you don't even know about. Plus, incredible worship. Can't wait to have you all there. And also, for the fathers, we have our first ever intentional fatherhood retreat in Costa Mesa, February 19 through 21. So, you have not gotten your tickets for that, we also have group rates. |
| 0:39.8 | We also have volunteer tickets. |
| 0:41.4 | All you need to do is go to intentional fatherhood.org, grab your tickets. |
| 0:44.6 | Can't wait to see you all in Costa Mesa or Nashville. |
| 0:47.9 | See you soon. |
| 0:53.0 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 0:58.1 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 1:01.8 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 1:05.4 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 1:15.1 | Welcome back to the Intentional Parents Podcast. |
| 1:19.9 | Hey, just want to say thank you so much for everyone who has been on this journey with us. |
| 1:28.7 | And for everyone that has just taken a second to rate and subscribe and leave a comment on Spotify, Apple, Google Play, anywhere you like to listen, has just been such a gift. And if you haven't had a chance to do that, again, just a reminder |
| 1:32.0 | that is so helpful. It gets the word out. And we're very grateful. Today you're going to hear |
| 1:37.4 | a collection, a collaboration of some of our favorite moments of 2025. In 2025, we had |
| 1:44.1 | the most conversations that we've had on |
| 1:47.1 | this podcast to date. And we had a lot of really wonderful key moments. And today, you're simply |
| 1:52.6 | just going to hear some of our favorite conversations and also most downloaded episodes and parts |
| 1:58.7 | of the most downloaded episodes. And so here's what this |
| 2:01.7 | will look like. We're going to start the episode, but this is like a combination of a bunch of |
| 2:06.7 | different episodes. So here's what we're going to do. Every time we switch between one episode to |
| 2:12.5 | another, you are going to hear this noise. |
| 2:23.0 | So you can know after you hear that noise that it is switching between some of our most downloaded and favorite conversations. |
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