Resourceful: Raising Confident, Not Entitled, Kids

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to work yourself out of a job as a parent? Best selling author and educator Esther Wojcicki describes the one rule she used as a parent with her three daughters, "Don't do anything for your kids that they can do for themselves."

As we continue our series, Words that Matter for Your Family, we talk about the word "resourceful," and why training your children to accomplish tasks on their own develops confident, but not entitled, kids.

In this episode we talk about:

- The specific ways it pays off when you intentionally teach your kids resourcefulness
- The "I do, we do, you do" model of kids learning to do things on their own
- The patience it requires to let your kids try things on their own
- How to come alongside your kids and supervise when they don't do something right in a way that doesn't make them feel incompetent
- The importance of teaching your kids to bring you solutions when they present you with a problem

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Show Notes:

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0:00.0	Well, and that's the number one thing. I think that's the number one problem is we don't allow board.
0:03.6	So our kids are not becoming as creative today as they could be because we need to have a home that is designed to be creative where we're creators and not consumers.
0:14.5	I think that's important. The second problem I think that we're creating and have been creating for years. This isn't new.
0:22.3	But in order for your kids to effectively do something on their own, they have to have not had
0:30.1	someone do it for them. You are listening to the famous at home podcast with Dr. Josh and
0:36.3	Christy Straub. Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:46.7	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today we are talking about words that matter for your family.
0:52.6	Before we jump into resourcefulness, here's a word from our sponsors.
0:59.7	So today, Christy, we are talking about resourcefulness as a word for your family. By the way,
1:07.0	as we talk about resourcefulness today, before we even jump into that, let me describe what
1:12.7	resourcefulness means in the context of what we're trying to build because I, and I want to say
1:17.4	this, because we've got a new EQ curriculum that I really, really want to tell you about
1:22.3	my kids' EQ. We got a coaching workshop for parents, school administrators, teachers, church leaders, if you are any one of those things.
1:31.1	You've got a co-op. You're a homeschooling parent. Maybe you're even part of a public school and you're just looking to find ways to build EQ.
1:38.6	This is a biblically based EQ program. So that's the distinction of it. But there are so many beautiful components of it. And what
1:45.1	we're doing to launch it is we are holding a workshop, an eight week, basically workshop that goes
1:53.1	eight weeks. There'll be interactive Zoom calls with me. We're just, we just want to dump everything
1:57.2	that we know about EQ to those who are interested in this and you get the first
2:02.0	eight weeks of curriculum as part of that to start trying at your church, at your school, with your
2:06.2	kids, whatever that looks like. And you're part of an ambassador community, like just champions,
2:10.9	people early on. We love for you to go check that out at my kids' EQ.com because we are all about
2:16.4	building resourcefulness in kids, which is what
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