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Summer of Mentorship 2018 Kristen Hatton Wk 4

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🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Teens. Toddlers. Moms.

No matter the age. We all struggle to remember (or know) the truth about who God says we are. And our position in Christ.

When we forget, we let friends, circumstances, or lies feed our souls with identity. And that takes us down the path of uncertainty,  harmful activities and a broken path.

Thankfully, today’s guest, Kristen Hatton, helps “Get Your Story Straight”.

When her daughter was in 6th grade, Kristen started teaching her and a group of friends truth from the Bible. Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of great resources available for preteens/teens. So she used notes from her husband’s sermons and wrote her own Bible study. (click here to check it out)**

In this episode, Kristen and I talk about the struggle for our kids to know how “justification” applies to daily life. (And define what ‘justification’ means).

We also chat about how to help teens navigate the challenges of social media. And Kristen vulnerably shares her daughter’s battle with an eating disorder (which began with internalizing social media posts).

Lastly, Kristen helps us start to keep communication open with our kids. So when they are teens they will keep talking. I’m in the stage with lots of little people all trying to be with me and talk to me (at the same time). But after three blinks I’ll have a home full of teen boys. The time I spend listening now will impact how much they talk to me in the future.

Very thankful for the help, perspective and wisdom from Kristen. Now I can see the teenage years as an age of opportunity not a season to be feared.

What we chat about:
  • How quickly our kiddos grow into teenagers.
  • How Kristen saw a need for good bible study materials for teens.
  • Helping our kids be anchored in who God says we are (not who their friends on social media says they are).
  • Importance of teaching our kids the concept of justification.
  • When the world is measuring perfection and performance but we know we are only perfect in Christ.
  • How to communicate worth and identity to our kids.
  • Why teens stop talking to their parents.
  • Listening and asking probing questions.
  • Responding with grace instead of condemnation.
  • How internalizing social media posts led to her daughter’s eating disorder.
  • How boys struggle with social media.
  • How Kristen talks to her kids about the impact of social media.
  • Talking to your sons & daughters about pornography. Keeping an open conversation.
  • Reorienting your kids to the message of the gospel, moment-to-moment
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, yo, welcome back to the God Center Mom podcast. I'm your host, Heather McFadian.

0:09.5

And this is the place where we remind you through mentorship, friendship, and discipleship

0:13.6

that you don't mom alone. You're listening to week four of the summer of mentorship

0:18.9

with this week's mentor, Kristen Hatton.

0:23.2

Justification is to be made right. So Christ lives the perfect life for us. And then he

0:28.8

died, that's a official death. And then he gave us his righteous robes. I mean, upon

0:33.6

us becoming believers, he closed us in his righteousness. But I think such a key pair

0:40.0

of that is understanding that it's not just that he died for us. He lived that perfect life

0:44.1

for us. And that is what he then gives to us and views us accordingly. And so all the

0:50.3

time, I mean, it's just so practical that when we feel like we're not enough or that we

0:55.5

know have to be something more that we send. And he may be the project as he still views

1:00.9

us according to who he says we are in his righteous robes that were wholly imperfect.

1:08.4

And it's just amazing, really. I mean, I speak it to my daughter, my kids, all the time.

1:15.6

They have to know that who they are. They're standing in Christ based on what he did for

1:21.2

them, not where they failed or how they think they don't measure up. This episode of

1:26.3

Originally aired in May of 2016. And I chose to have Christen be a part of our summer

1:31.5

of mentorship series because of her great work with teenagers. If you have a teen, you're

1:37.6

definitely going to check out the show notes because I've linked her book we talk about,

1:41.4

which is Get Your Story Straight, A Teen's Guide to Learning and Living the Gospel. And

1:45.4

then some newer resources she has. It's called FaceTime is One, Your Identity in a Selfie

1:50.3

World for Teen Girls. And it deals with identity worth social media and other teen issues.

1:55.9

And then another one that's coming out in July called the Gospel-centered Life in Exodus

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