Parenting with Hope with Melissa Kruger
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
- Will you share the story of wanting to write “Parenting with Hope”?
- As your kids changed into teenagers what changed about you as a parent?
- Why is that so foundational for parenting that parents are rooted in God’s word?
- What are some of the things you learned about God through parenting?
- What are some family habits that you think we could invite our kids into more ownership as they grow older?
- Can you give us a bit of a window into what your mornings look like and what role that plays in the discipleship of your family?
- Can you tell us more about prayer cards and what they look like?
- What critical role do you see the church and parents playing in the teenage stage that’s full of so much change?
- How would you advise a family who is making a church decision based on where their child wants to go? What’s great about that and do you see any reason to be cautious about letting a teenager’s preference drive a family church decision?
- How is idolatry a core battle to be in alongside your teenager? Can you explain the difference between a source idol, a surface idol, and a cultural idol for us?
- How can a parent discern when it’s time to let them fail and when it’s time to step in?
- Why is listening so important in this stage of parenting?Â
- Can you share what you mean when you say “My response is my responsibility” and why it is important for Christian parents to understand?
- How does that difference between correction and criticism impact how you respond to something your child did?
- “Parenting with Hope” by Melissa Kruger
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:13.8 | Hey, this is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my wonderful co-hosts, first Mrs. Cassie Bryant. |
| 0:19.5 | How are you doing today, Cassie? |
| 0:22.9 | I'm so good. Ready for spring break. |
| 0:29.5 | Oh, yeah. Yeah, me too. And speaking of my spring breaker, no regrets. I'm here with my wife, |
| 0:34.5 | Chelsea Griffin. How you doing today, Chelsea? I'm happy to be here. Yeah. Even though this is, |
| 0:54.8 | this is my 2 a.m., but I'm happy to be here. That's true. Chelsea just woke up for this. This is, and short, short sleep. Really, not enough. And I'm going right back. Yeah. Not to sleep. I'm into the hospital. Okay. Yeah. It's like, we're going to keep this conversation at a nice nap-level hum and then said, you're right back to sleep listeners to sleep yeah speaking of a lot to stay awake for guys today we're honored by the presence |
| 0:59.9 | of author and bible teacher gospel coalition extraordinaire melissa kruger everybody |
| 1:05.1 | how you doing today melissa doing well thanks this is like the most welcome i've ever had on a podcast, clapping and cheering. Wow. When there's three of us, we can have the effect of like a crowd, you know. That's fun. I'm going to stay around. Y'all are fun. Yeah. Well, stick around. Let's keep talking. What do you think? Let's keep going. Melissa, for anybody who doesn't know you and all that you do, could you tell us about you and your ministry and maybe just a little bit about your family too? |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah, yeah. Melissa, for anybody who doesn't know you and all that you do, could you tell us about you and your |
| 1:28.1 | ministry and maybe just a little bit about your family too? Yeah, yeah. I work for the gospel |
| 1:32.2 | coalition. I'm VP of Discipleship programming there. I'm married to Mike. He works at Reform |
| 1:39.4 | Theological Seminary, and we have three kids, a 23-year-old, a 20-year-old, and a 17-year-old. And I'm really |
| 1:47.7 | thankful. They're so much fun at this age. So it's a good season. I love it. Okay, so you've got a |
| 1:53.8 | new book out called Parenting with Hope. Will you share with us the story of wanting to write |
| 1:59.6 | this particular book for parents of teenagers? |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah. I mean, the story is I actually didn't want to write it. So there's that. I really found this topic to be super hard to even think about writing on because I'm the parent of some kids who've just moved out of the teen years. |
| 2:19.9 | And I'm walking with a lot of friends who were having a lot of different experiences of the |
| 2:24.9 | teen years. And so I am very sobered to know that these years can be really difficult and |
| 2:30.9 | really hard at different points. And so I, but what I also realize is there's not a lot of |
| 2:37.5 | books from women on the teen years. So part of what I wanted to write was hopefully to give some |
| 2:44.6 | encouragement in these years. I was a high school math teacher in my other life. Yeah, my mom |
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