Parenting in the Midst of a Pandemic
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
“There are broken parts in every one of us that need a good parent.” Dr. Dan Allender
Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender have a conversation with Meredith Dancause—a pastor, writer, and parenting expert—about the complexity of being a parent during a pandemic. Not only parenting young children, but how to be a good parent to ourselves. With both humor and honesty, Meredith speaks to positive discipline and grace, the unique opportunity this season affords us, and the need to pause and be curious about our children’s behavior.
Resources:
- Learn more about Meredith by visiting her website.
Read a blog post “Good Enough Parenting in a Time of Crisis” by Jay Stringer
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:08.5 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn. |
| 0:10.7 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 0:14.5 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 0:17.4 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.4 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that parenting in this COVID-19 era sucks. |
| 0:44.8 | It's difficult. And we have a privilege today, and I'll let Rachel you in a moment introduce. But just to say, look, we know that the complexity and the madness of this era |
| 0:51.6 | shows itself sometimes most desperately and painfully in the context of parenting. |
| 0:59.0 | And there are so many possibilities of this season, but also so many presumptions that need to |
| 1:06.1 | be addressed for people to be able to parent well. And I know there are people who don't have children. |
| 1:12.3 | And before you turn off, let me just say, we need to be parented in this period. |
| 1:20.0 | There are broken parts in every one of us that need a good parent. |
| 1:25.7 | So what we're talking about is not just how to parent young people, |
| 1:30.1 | how to parent even our own hearts and others. So we not only need to be parented, we need to |
| 1:37.5 | parent others well. And so our topic today really is an invitation to deal with the |
| 1:43.9 | particularities with regard to dealing with children, |
| 1:47.0 | but also what it really means for us to understand the presence of our father, God, in the context of |
| 1:54.3 | this season. So I am so thrilled that Meredith is with us, but Rachel, please introduce our guest. |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.9 | Well, we're very thrilled today and so delighted and honored to have Meredith Dan Kaus with us. |
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