Raise Confident Kids in a Confusing World with Ed Drew | 353
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Jerrad talks with Ed Drew about how to help kids find their identity in Christ. Ed shares how the church can support families, why identity matters more than behavior, and how to respond when kids feel lost, anxious, or confused. This is a practical and gospel-rooted conversation for every parent who wants to raise secure kids in an insecure world.
What You’ll Hear:
- Why your child’s identity matters more than their behavior
- How the church can help raise confident, Christ-rooted kids
- Ways to shift your language from correction to connection
- How to respond when kids are confused about gender or worth
- Why calm, honest conversations matter more than perfect answers
- The danger of finding value in achievement or image
- How to prepare kids for real-world questions with gospel truth
- What it means to be “God’s Plan A” for your family
Episode Resources:
- Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World by Ed Drew
- Faith in Kids – https://www.faithinkids.org
- Dad Tired Family Leadership Program – https://www.dadtired.com
- Invite Jerrad to speak – https://www.jerradlopes.com
- Read The Dad Tired Book – https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. I want to thank my friends over at Classical Conversations for sponsoring today's episode. |
| 0:07.3 | Interested in homeschooling? Classical conversations can help you lead your child to a world of possibilities by equipping you with a proven curriculum and support from a local community of homeschool families. |
| 0:18.8 | You're their first teacher. Be their best teacher. Learn how to make |
| 0:22.7 | homeschooling doable. Visit classicalconversations.com slash dad tired. Ed, I am so excited to be |
| 0:31.5 | sitting down with you today, man. I want to talk about your new book called Raising Confident Kids in a |
| 0:36.1 | confusing world, which man, do we need |
| 0:38.2 | more resources on that topic. But before we jump into that, maybe just tell us who you are and what |
| 0:42.8 | you're up to these days. It's a pleasure to be with you. My name is Ed Drew, and I'm speaking to you |
| 0:48.0 | from Southwest London in the UK. I'm married to Mary. We have three kids who are aged between |
| 0:53.9 | eight and 15. And I lead an |
| 0:57.4 | organization called Faith in Kids, which is trying to help parents and churches work together |
| 1:03.1 | to raise children to know Christ. The old story, the good story of parents getting help and |
| 1:09.6 | churches being at the heart of the story. |
| 1:11.8 | Man, even that introduction piqued my interest. That's really fascinating. |
| 1:15.7 | That's a, those thoughts, the way you just articulated that is very, very rare. |
| 1:22.7 | The thought of that we would as a church community think about raising our kids. I love that because it kind |
| 1:29.5 | of brings up the idea of a village, which we say that often takes a village, but really we're |
| 1:35.6 | pretty isolated as parents. Most of us don't feel like we have a village raising our kids. |
| 1:40.5 | We feel like we're on our own on this. I would love to, I know this isn't maybe necessarily |
| 1:46.7 | explicitly what the book is talking about, but what does that even start to look like for a church |
| 1:52.1 | community to say these are the kids that God has given to us as a community and how do we raise |
| 1:57.3 | them up? Well, firstly, I want to say it is in the book. There's a chapter in there where we look at what it means that we are not alone in this. |
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