The Single Greatest Thing to Being a Better Parent [On Becoming Great Parents 3 of 5]
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.8 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about the single greatest thing to being a better parent. Part of it may have to do with how we greet one another coming in the door, a conversation you don’t want to miss! Through the lens of Christi’s own healing journey, she shares in-depth about what makes her a better mom and what she now sees as the goal of parenting.
Some highlights include:
- The single greatest thing that’s made Christi a better mom
- What the primary goal of parenting really is (and it’s not what you think)
- Why less is more when it comes to parenting
(3:38) What we can learn (and not learn) by how our dogs greet us as we come through the door
(10:45) Why teachability matters, especially when looking for a spouse
(13:28) The art of giving an appropriate apology
(16:17) Christi discusses what she found to be the single greatest thing to be a better mom
(20:18) Christi discusses how she views time with the Lord when it's all hands-on deck with the kids
(21:30) Fighting the religious spirit
(22:35) Practical ways to get time with God in the mundane moments of the day
(28:41) Conversation related to therapy, coaching, and spiritual direction
(30:03) Why does it feel like everyone else talks about Jesus but I don't feel like He's with me?
(31:53) What Christi knows now that she wishes she knew when she first became a mom
Show Notes:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | I want to start off by saying happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. |
| 0:06.6 | We are releasing this on the weekend leading up to Father's Day. |
| 0:10.2 | So just if you're a father, you're a dad, we want to honor you today. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | We are in a five-part series right now. |
| 0:19.2 | This is part three. |
| 0:20.3 | Today's episode is Part 3 of a five-part series right now. This is part three. Today's episode is part three of a five-part |
| 0:22.1 | series on becoming great parents. And so we're talking today about the single greatest thing |
| 0:29.6 | to become a better parent. It is a follow-up to last week's episode where I was interviewing |
| 0:34.7 | Christy on becoming a calmer parent. And this week, she |
| 0:38.0 | discusses that single greatest thing. And I'm not going to give it away in the introduction. |
| 0:43.5 | You'll have to jump into the episode to listen. I genuinely believe this is the single greatest |
| 0:48.0 | thing that's helping me become a better parent. Single greatest thing is helping her become a |
| 0:50.8 | better parent. And we believe the same for you as well. We'd love for you to listen to this episode. Also, I just want to say this too, |
| 0:57.8 | Tender and Fierce is coming up August 7th. It's a Wednesday night, 7 p.m. Central Standard Time. |
| 1:03.8 | We would love ladies for you to join. This is the second cohort of this. The first cohort was |
| 1:08.5 | unbelievable. We have testimonies on the website that you can |
| 1:11.9 | check out. I also want to just jump in and say the men's community that we are developing is so |
| 1:19.4 | exciting. I can't wait for that to launch as well. If you are a father, you're a husband, |
| 1:24.7 | you want to jump in on this discipleship journey that we are |
| 1:28.3 | developing to becoming better husbands, better fathers, better sons of our heavenly father, |
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