Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is a conversation on practical help for parenting in the early years. It was recorded at our

2004 women's conference and features Emily Jensen, Laura Wifler, Ginger Blomberg, and Betsy Childs Howard.

Welcome to Big Little Lives, Practical Help, for parenting in the early years.

We're so happy you're here.

We're happy you're here in Indianapolis.

We're happy you're here at this panel.

And I'm hoping that we'll get some really practical ideas.

My children are younger than the other panelists, so it just feels like an opportunity to ask them all my questions.

Let me introduce them, and then we will get

right down to practical ideas. Emily Jensen has five children. They range in age from six to 11,

and she co-founded with Laura, risen motherhood. They also, I'll, your your intros are going to overlap because you've done so much together.

But Emily has written, he is strong, a devotional book, and also is co-author with Laura of a new

book called Gospel Mom, which will be out in October.

I'll do Laura next.

Laura and Emily are sisters-in-law.

Laura has three kids, ages 6 to 11,

co-founder of risen motherhood and founder of Kid Lit Lab.

If you're interested in writing children's books, you should check it out.

She's also the author of Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer,

which is a book for children, and co-author of Gospel Mom.

And then Ginger has five kids,

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