"When Parenting Feels Hopeless: 3 Mistakes Discouraging Christian Parents"
COURAGEOUS PARENTING
Isaac & Angie Tolpin - CourageousParenting.com
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel like your parenting just isn't working — no matter how hard you try?
For Christian parents today, conviction erodes quietly. Consistency breaks down across the areas that matter most: discipline, discipleship, screen time, peer and family influences, reaching your kids' hearts, and handling bad attitudes. And the pressure of an increasingly hostile culture only makes it harder.
In this episode, Isaac and Angie Tolpin identify the 3 core mistakes fueling discouragement in Christian parents right now — and give practical wisdom and personal stories on how to overcome them. They also share content from their new book Courageous Parenting, releasing June 2nd, 2026.
If you're a Christian mom or dad who's tired of feeling like you're failing, or want to sharpen your focus, marriage alignment and follow through, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Courageous Parenting Podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey guys, we're so excited to be here with you. |
| 0:04.1 | We're going to be sharing some of the inside scoop on the new book that is coming out in a few weeks, Courageous Parenting. |
| 0:10.2 | But here's three huge mistakes parents make that are causing discouragement. |
| 0:14.7 | And I think once you listen to them, you'll probably identify with them. |
| 0:18.1 | I think most Christian parents will. |
| 0:20.1 | It's so important to pinpoint |
| 0:21.9 | these, work through these, have marriage conversations about these. And by the way, hey, join |
| 0:27.1 | the launch team for the Courageous Parenting Book. There's already 320 people to have the book |
| 0:31.9 | early release because they were at the Teach them Diligently Conference and they purchased them |
| 0:35.1 | for $20. And a lot of those people are now on our launch team as well and others as well. |
| 0:40.5 | Everybody can join the launch team and get some of the book early for free actually. |
| 0:45.1 | Just go to be courageous ministry.org forward slash book. |
| 0:48.8 | That's be courageous ministry.org forward slash book. |
| 0:51.8 | Just sign up for that and we're going to give a $298 worth of free courses |
| 0:55.7 | away we're going to have some fun you're going to be in private group and access we're |
| 0:59.4 | going to do some lives I mean this is such we believe that this is such an impactful resource |
| 1:05.2 | that churches need to be using that parents need across the board would you help us us? Would you join in us? This is a new |
| 1:12.8 | tip of the spear for the 10 million legacies movement to impact people with biblical resources |
| 1:17.4 | around the world. There is a need for parents to take the baton and parent biblically in these |
| 1:22.7 | unprecedented times. That's right. So thanks for joining us and hope we are encouraged by today's |
| 1:27.1 | podcast. Hey, everyone. It's so good to be home from our two weeks of speaking at the teach them diligently conferences. |
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