The Worry-Free Parent with Sissy Goff

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

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

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We're not in lack when it comes to what to worry about in today's world, especially as parents. With school approaching, we wanted to bring back one of our favorite humans and Famous at Home guests, our friend Sissy Goff, MEd, LPC-MHSP. Sissy is the director of child and adolescent counseling at Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville, Tennessee, and is here with us to talk about her new book, The Worry-Free Parent. This conversation is so rich with parenting nuggets and wisdom on raising confident, courageous kids. We talk about:

Practical ways to hold space for both worry and peace in your home
The power we have as parents over our kid's anxiety
How to model bravery and restore your kid's resourcefulness
Management strategies to gain your warmth and joy back in the midst of shame and rage

Show Notes: Order a copy of Sissy's new book, The Worry-Free Parent!Read more about Daystar Counseling Ministries Read more about Raising Boys & Girls Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

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0:00.0	The last thing I'd want to point out is that whole anxiety makes us attach future meaning to present problems.
0:05.7	I hear that from parents all the time of, well, they're not cleaning up their room at 10,
0:09.6	so they're not going to be able to drive a car at 16 and they're not going to be able to hold a job when they're 35.
0:14.2	They're going to be a failure as a parent because I haven't done a good job rather than just let's be where our feet are planted
0:21.4	now and work on what they need to work on today.
0:25.1	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Strobe.
0:30.9	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:40.4	Welcome back.
0:41.7	So we are in this little, I don't know if you want to call it a series, whatever,
0:46.1	where we are taking our family, our podcast family's questions, topics,
0:51.7	the stuff that you're wrestling with, the topics that you want to know more
0:56.4	about, you want to hear from us about, or you see us living out or you heard us talk about
1:01.7	something that you're like, hey, I want to know more about that. Last week we talked about
1:05.1	Shabbat, for example, and what that looks like and how we do it and how you can implement
1:09.7	that, what that means, and for your family.
1:12.1	And so these practical rhythms that we have created, we didn't create, but that we
1:16.9	implemented in our family that have been created and gone before us, many, many, many,
1:21.1	thousands of years before us, some of these, we want it to introduce you to.
1:27.0	But in the process of that that as we've been getting
1:29.1	your topics your questions the stuff that you guys are wrestling with or wanting us to talk about
1:34.5	there's this underlying sense i think for all of us that we are really questioning number one
1:41.1	are we doing good as parents is what we're doing is what we're doing is it
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