Uninvited Guests - How to Raise Positive Kids in a Negative World, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Conflicts with our kids are inevitable. And one of the most intimidating things about parenting is the fear of losing our kids when these conflicts present themselves. Join Chip has he lays out 8 keys that’ll help you build securely bonded relationships with your kids. If you want to learn how you and your child can weather the storms ahead, this message is for you.
Four principles for positive parenting
- Effective parenting begins with positive CLEAR-CUT OBJECTIVES! -Ephesians 6:4
- Effective parenting demands we PRACTICE what we PREACH. -1 Corinthians 4:14-16
- Effective parents build relationships that BOND. -1 Thessalonians 2:7-8, 11-12
8 “Keys” that build relationships that bond
- UNCONDITIONAL love
- Scheduled TIME
- FOCUSED attention
- EYE contact
- ONGOING communication
- Meaningful TOUCH
- Have FUN together
- PRAY together often
- Effective parenting requires CONSTANT REPAIR and ONGOING MAINTENANCE. -1 John 1:9
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| 0:00.0 | Conflicts with kids are inevitable. |
| 0:05.0 | And I think one of the most intimidating things about parenting is the fear of losing our kids |
| 0:10.0 | when these conflicts present themselves. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, today I'm going to share eight specific key things that you can do that will build |
| 0:18.0 | the kind of relationship so that you can weather just about any conflict. |
| 0:22.6 | Stay with me. |
| 0:23.6 | Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.6 | Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry helping Christians develop an authentic faith. |
| 0:38.8 | While we're in the middle of our series, uninvited guests, and right now we're diving |
| 0:42.7 | back into the second half of Chip's Talk, How to Raise Positive Kids in a Negative World. |
| 0:48.1 | So if you have your notes and Bible ready, here again is Chip. |
| 0:52.3 | First, Thessalonians chapter two, he says, but we were gentle among you. |
| 0:55.4 | How? |
| 0:55.9 | Like a mother, circle the word mother, caring for her little children. |
| 1:00.6 | He says, this is how we treated you. |
| 1:03.0 | We loved you so much that we're delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God. |
| 1:07.7 | I mean, not just the content, not the truth, but our own lives as well. Why? Because you had |
| 1:14.2 | become so dear to us. Would you underline the word gentle, caring, loved, share, dear to us? |
| 1:22.9 | He's saying, we loved you, and this is how a child needs a mother's love, there's a tenderness, |
| 1:28.8 | there's a nurturing, there's a commitment, there's a pouring out your life that builds relationships |
| 1:34.3 | that bond. But kids need a father's love. Now, both do both, but he says, for you know that we |
| 1:41.6 | dealt with each of you as a father, a circle of father. |
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