Should We Have Another Child, Parenting Kids With Different Personalities, and Being a Follower Instead of a Leader (Q+R)
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, all four of us respond to your questions on marriage, parenting, and discipleship. We begin with a listener who feels stuck navigating a blended family and a husband who wants another child while she feels content with their current season. We talk about honoring both present realities and future hopes, acknowledging the unique weight moms carry, communicating clearly, and seeking unity through prayer and counsel. We reference passages like 1 Corinthians and Ephesians 5 to remind couples to love well, listen well, and move forward on the same page.
We also tackle the challenge of parenting kids with very different personalities. Rather than trying to change them, we encourage learning from each other as parents, recognizing differences as gifts, and affirming each child’s place in the family.
Finally, we revisit a previous comment about being a better follower than leader and explore why followership matters deeply in your spiritual walk. Before building influence, we must learn to listen, serve, and follow Jesus faithfully. As Mark 8 reminds us, leadership grows out of surrender — those who follow well are the ones God often entrusts to lead.
It’s a concise but meaningful conversation packed with encouragement and practical wisdom.
Scripture Mentioned: 1 Corinthians 1:10, Ephesians 5:25-27, Mark 8:34-35 + Luke 18:15-17
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Brooke. Before we get into today's conversation, I want to invite you into something important. |
| 0:06.6 | We're stepping into our year-end campaign and a small group of generous donors have given $200,000 to match every gift in December. |
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| 0:35.0 | now for the intentional fatherhood retreat in Costa Mesa, |
| 0:38.2 | February 19 through 21, 2026. And last thing, my new book, Sowing a Hidden Seed, Daily |
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| 0:48.8 | So go grab a copy now. All right, let's get into this week's episode. |
| 0:56.4 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 1:01.5 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 1:05.3 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 1:08.8 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you. hope and practical hope. Enjoy this week's conversation. Welcome back to the intentional parents podcast. We've done it. We're here today. All four of us, we're going to answer your questions |
| 1:23.7 | today. We want to respond to your questions. And truth be told, I've barely seen what any of these are. So I can't give you a good teaser about what they're going to be. But I do know you all ask really good questions. So I'm going to get right to it. I want to say thank you to everyone who's rated, subscribed, left a message and left a comment. That's huge. Also, Spotify community. We're over there. We're on YouTube. If you want to watch this, you can check it all out. I do find it funny. Just the other day, |
| 1:47.6 | you sent me a voice memo from someone that was thanking us for what we do. And they had said in that voice memo, like, they're like, don't worry, I'm going to rate and I'm going to subscribe. I'm going to leave a comment. |
| 1:57.1 | I was like, |
| 1:57.5 | thank you and or don't feel like an obscene amount of pressure. |
| 2:01.3 | We ask, |
| 2:01.8 | though, |
| 2:01.9 | because sometimes clarity is kindness. |
| 2:04.4 | It's kind for you. to leave a comment. I was like, thank you and or don't feel like an obscene amount of pressure. |
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