How would you describe your home's atmosphere? Is it defined by chaos, anger,

hostility, or calmness, love, encouragement? If it's not the latter, stay with me.

That's what we'll talk about today on Living on the Edge.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a

discipleship-driven ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to

live like Christians. Thanks for joining us as we continue our series

Intentional Parenting, taught by author and speaker Doug Fields. For the last

handful of programs, Doug's been encouraging us parents by identifying specific

ways we can be exceptional moms and dads for our kids. Now, if you've missed any

part of this series along the way, catch up any time at Living on the Edge.org

or through the Chip Ingram app. Oh, with that, here's Doug with today's talk.

We are in part three of this series that we have been doing where I've been

talking about 10 actions that all kids need from carrying adults. And that

carrying adult could be a parent. That's mostly what I'm going after. But really

grandparents, aunts, uncles, mentors, coaches, teachers, anybody who's not a

hermit, whose life intersects that of a young person. What do all kids need? We've

been unpacking that. I wish I could spend a lot of time at the front end catching

you up for those of you that missed. But it's all online that you can listen to

that if you did miss it. I encourage you to do that. But basically what we've been

saying is that to have an end game in mind. What would it look like if the kids

that we were entrusted to parent and to care for and to mentor had a sense of

confidence and character and convictions and compassion. And ultimately, we're

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