Stop Parenting Your Children

As For Me And My House

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

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Hey friends! This week’s episode is probably going to be a spicy one, but necessary. We want to encourage our listeners who have children how important your role as a mother or a father are in your child’s life. Confusion around the specific roles and identity of mother and father in our world today has caused a ripple effect to our children. It’s our desire to revert to an ancient, Biblical model of raising children and have a discussion around just how vital fathers and mothers are. If you’ve ever felt inconsequential to your child in your role, think again! God has made you (and no one else) the mother or father of your children for a specific purpose. Please do not take that fact for granted. If you are not yet a mom or a dad, there are many ways you can spiritually father or mother others who are younger than you who desperately need your encouragement and fellowship. If you are a single mom or dad who is seeking to honor the Lord in the way you raise your children, please know the Lord has a very special place for you in His heart. Your ability to live in such a super-human way ought to be celebrated, never shamed! Let us know your thoughts in the comments and how the Lord has called you to care for your children either biological, adopted, fostered, or spiritual.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to As for me in my house. I'm Jordan and I'm
0:15.5	Elena and we got a spicy one for you today. You probably tell by the title
0:21.2	that it's actually not clickbait. There's a deliberate
0:25.2	intentionality on how we titled this episode. And I want to frame our conversation by starting
0:30.7	with an article that my friend Jeremy Pryor wrote and it's entitled
0:35.3	Why I Don't Believe in Parenting. Jeremy says this, ideas matter.
0:40.8	Ideas are carried into our consciousness by words and few things shape the way
0:45.8	we think more than the words we choose to use. These words create categories and
0:51.1	these categories shape the way we think. The modern world has
0:54.4	created a new category by using the word parenting. It seems like a good category,
0:59.6	even a necessary one, but I no longer believe the category of parenting is useful.
1:04.7	It has caused widespread confusion and has worked to redefine the process of family building.
1:10.4	We can see the impact of this category mistake in the movement today to put all the activity done by mothers and fathers into the genderless category of parenting.
1:20.0	But did you know that the word parenting, even the word parent, does not exist in the Hebrew Bible?
1:26.0	How could a culture that loved family so much not have a word for parenting?
1:31.0	Because no one parents a child. There's no such thing. You either father
1:35.2	children or you mother children. Both are essential for a child's proper
1:40.3	development. The introduction of the third concept of parenting is not only confusing, but damaging.
1:46.0	It carries with it the suggestion that healthy child rearing is something done in a gender neutral fashion,
1:51.0	be that one man or one woman or two men or two women or
1:54.5	by a group of guardians. This is why governments have removed the words father and
1:59.2	mother from official documents in favor of parent one and parent two.
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