Marriage In Sickness and In Health, Parenting Neurodiverse Children Alongside Neurotypical Children + Handling Parenting Differences (Q+R)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, all four of us (Brook, Elizabeth, Phil and Diane) sat down to respond to some questions centered on avoiding bitterness in your marriage while dealing with sickness and the unique challenges of parenting neurodiverse children alongside neurotypical children.
We discussed the reality of living out the marriage vow, “in sickness and in health,” and how it requires a deep loyalty to one another, a shared sense of suffering and oneness, and a desperate dependence on God. We addressed how to avoid bitterness towards your spouse suffering from sickness, which demands honesty about the situation, acceptance that this is your reality, and understanding that faith is not a “fix-it” system.
We also responded to two related questions about parenting children with neurodiversity — 1) How do you parent both neurodiverse and neurotypical children in a way that is God-honoring and full of compassion, grace and truth towards each individual child and their needs? And 2) How do you work through disagreements and differences with your spouse in how you parent neurodiverse children? Drawing from our own experiences happening in real time, we talked about our unrelenting reliance on God, our larger family system, our community, and each other — as well as many other helpful strategies, such as getting on the same page AND staying on the same page.
This episode is packed with scripture references, personal examples, and lots of light and hope — even amidst some heavy, complex questions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 0:06.2 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 0:09.9 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 0:13.5 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 0:20.7 | All right, welcome back to the intentional podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | Today, we're going to respond to some of your questions. |
| 0:27.2 | We have such a wonderful group of people that are very consistent about sending in questions, |
| 0:32.2 | email, social media, even the podcast, you'll drop questions. |
| 0:40.3 | And we just so appreciate you asking questions. And we find that these particular conversations are not only fun, but we get a lot of feedback from you, |
| 0:47.2 | the listener, that this is helpful. So we're going to continue to do these until they're not helpful. |
| 0:51.4 | I think is the idea. So Elizabeth and Phil and Diana, we're all here. And thank you everybody again for rating and subscribing. If you |
| 0:58.1 | haven't had a chance to do that, please do. And we have a growing community on YouTube. |
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| 1:16.3 | You get notified that we're actually releasing stuff. |
| 1:20.0 | So did something fun today. |
| 1:22.1 | I browsed the questions for two seconds, which Elizabeth originally picked out for this episode. And I said, honey, why don't |
| 1:28.9 | you be the one today to like take all those questions and host us through these questions? |
| 1:34.0 | So I hope you don't fail. He'll be great. So would you mind walking us through the questions |
| 1:41.9 | today as we jump in. |
| 1:45.5 | Okay, you gave me control. |
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