S6 02: Raising Gender-Confident Kids with Kathy Koch
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
How do we help boys and girls trust that God's design of them is right and good? Dr. Kathy Koch joins me to talk about the five things kids need most and how we can be the kind of wise, loving adults they need in this gender-confused world.
Raising Gender-Confident Kids: Helping Kids Embrace Their God-Given Design by Dr. Jeff Myers and Dr. Kathy Koch
Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender by Christopher West
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, you guys, I've got a scenario for you. You walk up to the counter at Starbucks with your |
| 0:05.2 | children. To be faced with a guy, dress as a girl, with makeup and all. You have a pleasant |
| 0:11.3 | interaction, you grab your drinks, and you head back to the car. You shut the car door. What do you do |
| 0:17.0 | next? Do you let the Spotify playlist pick up where you left off? Do you hope your kids didn't notice? Or do you do next? Do you let the Spotify playlist pick up where you left off? Do you hope your kids |
| 0:22.2 | didn't notice? Or do you bring it up and have a conversation about it? The large move in our |
| 0:28.4 | cultural moment is to untether ourselves from God. The lie that is being told to us and to our kids |
| 0:34.5 | is that we can create whoever we want to be. There's not a creator who created us |
| 0:40.2 | on purpose with a purpose, as Dr. Kathy Cook likes to say. It is one of the big assumed ideas of our |
| 0:47.5 | moment. And you know what CS Lewis said about this. The most dangerous ideas in a society |
| 0:52.9 | are not the ones that are being argued, but the ones |
| 0:56.5 | that are assumed. So with all this in mind, a few questions come up for me. How do we expose the lie? |
| 1:04.5 | How do we love those who've been taken captive by it? And what if the lie has taken our own |
| 1:09.8 | children captive? How do we speak life and truth |
| 1:13.2 | into this next generation, especially our own children? Well, my guest today is a returning guest, |
| 1:21.3 | Dr. Kathy Cook, the founder and president of Celebrate Kids. She delights in following Jesus' example of celebrating children. |
| 1:30.7 | Kathy is a Christian psychologist who has a burning in her heart to equip parents |
| 1:35.1 | and communicate to kids the value, design, and identity of each child. |
| 1:41.2 | She's a favorite speaker with people of every age, wherever she goes, mostly because |
| 1:45.6 | she strikes at the core question we all have. Why am I here? Am I valuable? Do I have a purpose? |
| 1:54.0 | She addresses this through solid theology, not the self-help fluff that we hear so often. |
| 2:00.4 | Okay, let's go on this conversation. |
| 2:06.5 | Kathy, you said yes again. |
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