Worry Free Kids with Sissy Goff
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
- Could you tell us a little about your family and your ministry?
- Is there a reason that this generation of kids and adults is dealing with so much pervasive anxiety?
- Could you give us a basic definition of worry or anxiety?
- What kinds of things are kids afraid of that are making them anxious?
- How do we help a kid to develop a sense of perspective that is more accurate and how is that going to help?
- How does what we as Christians believe about worry and anxiety play into how we parent an anxious child?
- Why do you think that is so hard for people to be free enough to laugh at their own mistakes?
- How are kids coping with stress and are there healthy ways to help them cope?
- What is the balance between letting my kid face some failures and providing a hurt-free environment when possible?
- How do we, as parents, navigate that the bottom line of worry is that our anxious kids care so much?
- How does a parent identify profound anxiety in a child or in themselves? Like, when would we know if it’s the right time to go seek help for our child?
- For the parent who right now is overwhelmed, maybe they are anxious about their kids own anxiety, what encouragement or compassion do you have to offer them today?
- Are there any scriptures that have been especially precious to you as you’ve counseled people through anxiety?
- What are some ways that we can be praying for you?
- John 16:33, 1 John 3:18-20
- “Raising Worry-Free Girls” by Sissy Goff
- “The Worry Free Parent” by Sissy Goff
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of training the church. |
| 0:14.1 | Anxiety is an overestimation of the problem and an underestimation of themselves. |
| 0:18.9 | So it's too hard. I'm too small, I can't do it. |
| 0:22.3 | Rather than it's tiny and I can handle it, which is awesome. |
| 0:29.2 | You know, we don't want kids who know how to skate through life. |
| 0:33.5 | We want kids who know how to handle when the hard things come, |
| 0:36.2 | and the hard things are going to come. |
| 0:37.5 | And so if we're not equipping them when they're younger, they're going to fall apart when they're older. |
| 0:45.4 | I would say giving yourself grace, this is one of the things I talk about in the new book, giving yourself grace is more important than trying harder. |
| 0:52.1 | I think when we try harder, we just drive ourselves into the ground and we get more tense |
| 0:55.8 | and more anxious and more angry. |
| 1:02.8 | This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my co-host, as usual, Mrs. Cassie Bryant. |
| 1:07.4 | How are you doing today, Cassie? |
| 1:08.7 | I'm good. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm not going to tell you what I had to eat before this because as we discussed in a previous episode, we talk about, I talk about food too much. Oh, well, how did you? Wave my coffee mug at you. Oh, there you did it. So you're having coffee. Well, yeah, but that's not food. Doesn't count. It's a consumable. I'm counting. Next time I won't even mention coffee. |
| 1:45.7 | Oh, promise? No, you can talk about whatever you're eating and drink at any time. Anytime. Okay. Okay. And of course, my lovely wife, Mrs. Chelsea, how are you doing today, Chelsea? On top of the world. Yes, you are. You really are on top of the world. Thank you. Happy to be here. Yeah. Well, today we have with us a special guest, author, counselor extraordinaire, taco expert. Miss Sissy Gough, everybody. |
| 1:52.9 | Party time. Wow, that's my favorite part of my title. I've never heard that. Taco X. You like |
| 1:58.2 | tacos. Taco expert. I do like tacos. We can talk about food, Cassie. Yes. Okay, so if Cassie's landing in Nashville |
| 2:05.9 | today, let's just say she gets out of the airport and she's got two hours to kill and she needs |
| 2:09.8 | to get the best taco in town. Where is she going, Sissy? Who, Lady Bird Tacos, probably my favorite. |
| 2:15.8 | It's just a little local spot. Actually, there's now one in Birmingham, too. |
| 2:19.4 | Okay. And also Superika. It would be both of those. Superika is very good. So she got to stop by both do a little round robin taco bunch. Two tacos. I love that. I like bar taco there too. I love bar taco. I love a chain, I think. and there's one in Fort Worth here, |
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