Using Life-Giving Words To Love Our Children | Ep. 29
Risen Motherhood
Risen Motherhood
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🗓️ 24 August 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Especially under stress, it's easy to get caught in a pattern of using critical words with our children. Can you relate? Instead of tearing down, God's word encourages us to harness the tongue for building-up, giving grace, and pointing our children towards their ultimate source of life. In this episode, Emily and Laura discuss the importance of practicing this skill with our children, and share practical ways to get started. We won't be perfect, but we can keep choosing words that speak truth, along with a heaping dose of love.
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet. Which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:36.8 | Well, hey guys, welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. We are so glad all of you guys |
| 0:41.2 | are tuning in today. I have got, of course, my sister-in-law Emily Jensen with me. Hey guys. |
| 0:46.4 | And let's see, today we're talking about just kind of a fun, feel-good topic. We're talking about |
| 0:52.8 | using life-giving words with our kids, honoring our children with our words, being gracious and |
| 0:58.6 | kind and I don't know, affirming to them. It's one of those, sometimes a lost art these days to |
| 1:04.9 | do this thing. Yeah, it's a lost art and yet like a huge thing that I feel like our culture, you |
| 1:11.2 | know, emphasizes and talks about positivity and, you know, being kind, but it's hard to do. |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, and at that, like I feel like I'm a pretty like puppy-friendly person and I've just been |
| 1:24.2 | amazed, especially since bringing our fourth child into the world, like how under stress it can |
| 1:29.7 | be extremely difficult to control the tongue. Yeah, exactly. And I mean, we want to do a whole show |
| 1:37.6 | on just like, I don't know, saying mean things. So at some point we will do that, but today we're |
| 1:44.3 | like, let's go with the fun side of things or the, what you should do. Exactly, exactly. And it's |
| 1:50.8 | funny because our children are listening to everything, even speaking to them, isn't it funny? |
| 1:55.5 | Emily, just like how, I don't know, have you noticed like your kids picking up on things that you've |
| 2:00.4 | been saying like just to your husband or other, you know, people? Well, we're just getting into that |
| 2:04.4 | stage where like we have to be careful about saying names in front of our children because our |
| 2:08.5 | oldest now knows who people are. But it's the other day we're driving in the car and my oldest |
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