Kids, Fear, and Helping Your Adult Children with Max Lucado

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Epigenetics is real. In other words, there’s a trickle down effect onto our kids based on our beliefs, feelings, and the environment in which we raise them.

In this episode, Pastor Max Lucado joins the show to talk about helping parents meet children in their anxious thoughts. Having written multiple books on anxiety, Pastor Lucado has a new 90-day devotional called Calm Thoughts for Kids, and joins the show to talk about what he’s seeing as a grandparent and how parents today can help their kids with their anxious days.

Having just become a grandparent for the sixth time, and about to be the seventh time, Pastor Lucado also talks about how grandparents can come alongside their adult children in raising their grandchildren.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:51 Max Lucado talks about fear and kids
9:50 How raising kids has changed
13:40 How grandparents can support their adult kids in raising their grandkids
19:00 How parents can disciple their kids and meet them in fear
23:45 The power of story to help kids grow
28:07 What is your strategy?

Show Notes:
Get Calm Thoughts for Kids: 90 Devotions for Anxious Days by Pastor Max Lucado by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3Maf13l

Get Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear by Pastor Lucado: https://amzn.to/49YHtgp

Get What Do I Do With Worry by Dr. Josh and Christi: https://amzn.to/4k3UGJD

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0:00.0	We do live in a very anxious generation, but the fact that the banner is, it's always been an anxious world.
0:06.5	And the devil is always stirring fear. That's his tool. He loves for us to, number one, dread tomorrow, and number two, not tell anyone what we're dreading.
0:18.9	If he can convince somebody just to live in fear of tomorrow
0:22.8	and never talk about it, then he has a person imprisoned. And so we as parents can come alongside
0:29.9	and we can talk to our kids about, here's how you face tomorrow. I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down.
0:42.3	I'll just let go and I'll try help me walk this road and find my way back home. Welcome back to the famous at home. It's such a joy to be with you today. We are in a series
1:12.6	called Loving Well. And today we are talking to Pastor Max Lakato about loving our children well
1:21.4	through helping them with their anxious thoughts. How can we show up as parents in a loving way to help our
1:30.9	children with their anxious thoughts? And you know, one of the most fascinating parts about this
1:35.7	interview is that he also talks about what it's like to be a grandparent to six and soon to be
1:42.7	seven grandchildren and his interaction and his
1:45.8	relationship with his own children. And he has three daughters and just talks about that
1:54.1	because that can be an anxiety, right? Like your relationship with your parents or your in-laws
1:58.3	can be an anxiety and especially if they are influencing,
2:02.3	and if you're a grandparent as well, it's like, hey, what does it look like to serve and love
2:08.0	our adult children in how they're raising their children? Because it is incredibly different
2:13.8	raising children today than what it was in previous generations, especially because of
2:19.5	technology and screens. And that even being a source of anxiety, increasing anxiety, both among
2:29.0	adults and children. And so I just really want to encourage you, it's really cool in this loving well series that we have so many respected leaders in the faith who have gone before us in many ways and who are grandparents with Dr. Gary Chapman and now we're having Pastor Max Lakedo as just gentlemen who genuinely have loved well
2:55.0	in their own families and are loving well in their own families that we get to learn from them.
3:00.5	And so I just really want to encourage you.
3:02.6	We're going to put calm thoughts for kids, which is Pastor Likato's new devotional.
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