Raising Kids Outside the Matrix

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Make no mistake, we live in a matrix. And the bar set by Western culture for raising children is deceptively low. As parents, we do everything we can to give our kids an advantage. But is more parenting “knowledge“ really what we need? Are child outcomes really better today than they were 10 to 20 years ago?

In this episode, we continue season 6 on Relational Intelligence in Kids by offering a new, yet ancient, paradigm for raising our children -- a paradigm that removes shame, grants God-given purpose, and breaks us free from the matrix.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:13 What is the bar we’re setting for our kids?
3:02 Is more parenting “knowledge” really what we’re missing?
8:00 What makes KidsRQ unique
11:43 Why thinking, feeling, and relating at the same time is where growth happens
14:50 A vision for kids beyond the Western matrix
18:20 Raising “living letters” to the world
25:00 How life and fruit can grow from our emotions

Show Notes:
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0:00.0	We are a living letter to the world around us.
0:04.0	And here's my question as families.
0:06.4	Do we genuinely look different than the rest of the world around us?
0:11.5	Or are we running as frantic and ragged and anxious as everyone else?
0:16.4	Do we carry a glimpse?
0:18.1	Do we carry the light on a hill which cannot be hidden?
0:22.2	Have we lost our saltiness on the earth?
0:25.8	I pray not.
0:27.5	Kids RQ is about supporting families, helping families,
0:30.5	and raising a next generation of children
0:32.7	who have the ability to be salt and light
0:36.6	in this dark and tasteless world.
0:40.4	I won't lose hope in the night when the fire is growing down.
0:48.9	I'll just let go and I'll try.
0:53.3	Help me walk this road and find my way back home. Welcome back to the famous at home. It is such a joy to be with you. We, as you realized over the last
1:21.0	couple weeks, have launched KidsRQ.com. That is Kids Relational Intelligence. What is RQ? It is relational intelligence. Why are we
1:30.0	launching now? What is this all about? I am so excited to talk more about it here today,
1:38.4	cast some vision for it, and given details. But also today, what I would love to do is begin to give you an understanding
1:46.5	of why we're doing this. Like what is the whole purpose of relational intelligence in kids
1:51.6	and why does this matter? You know, because a lot of times what ends up happening is, is we as
1:59.3	parents, tend to jump in to raising our kids, and we want them
2:04.6	to behave, right? We want them to make sure that they're listening to us, that they're disciplined,
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