You're listening to episode 140 of the God Center Mom Podcast with me. Heather McFallon

and today I'm chatting with Sean Tell Brewer here a few of her wise words.

I think no matter what and no matter how much we try to keep our motives great, we want

our kids to perform and I know that sounds really awful but we do. We have this idea that

our kids are going to behave in a certain way in public and really sometimes they just

need to be kids. We have these ideas or ideals of how it's going to go and when it doesn't

go that way, are we prideful and we get really embarrassed and so we yell at our kids

and we fly at the handle because I find for me when I get upset with my kids in public,

it almost is always because I feel like somebody else isn't approving of my parenting

and has nothing to do with my kids in their actions at that time.

So much wisdom that Sean Tell has for us, if only I had learned that lesson, I mean that's

basically the heart of God Center Mom, not letting my pride get in the way so I parent

differently when I'm in public and they're basically humbling me or humanly eating me.

So much more wisdom is about to hit your ears in this episode. Sean Tell and I talk about

parenting and ministering small. She is the mom to five kids ages 10 to 18 and after

my conversation with her, I felt convicted in the good kind of way. I don't want you

to feel convicted and oh man I'm a terrible mom. No, like she sets examples of maybe getting

rid of some things or pulling it in but for me it was as simple as changing the direction

of our dinner conversation. At dinner I wanted to talk less now about highlights and low

lights and what's happening to my kids and more about how they're impacting, how did they

help someone else? How did they make someone else's day better? I also love her family's

example of Taco Tuesday and when I shared it with my boys they wanted to invite everybody

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