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Welcome back to the podcast! Today, I’m talking about a challenge every parent faces at some point - raising kids who can solve their own problems with willingness and confidence. Maybe you’ve felt the frustration of always being on call, being needed to fix everything when things don’t go your child’s way. Or perhaps you’ve wondered how to equip your child to navigate life’s bumps without you always holding their hand. That’s what we are going to talk about today - raising kids who are problem solvers.
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Do you ever catch yourself making excuses about your child’s behaviour that you know deep down just aren’t helping? It’s a common struggle. This episode might be a bit uncomfortable because I’m going to highlight 4 excuses we all make and why they might be more harmful than you think. Actually, you may not even know you make these excuses - but once you listen in and hear me say them, you’ll start hearing them in what you say throughout the day. Of course, I don’t just want to call you out on this - we all do it, I did it - but hearing ourselves, is the first step in knowing we have to make change. And as I always say - heart-focused parenting is about us the parents doing the heart work - first in us, and then in our kids. So listen in - and see if you recognise any of these excuses.
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#83: Here is something that we don’t talk about enough: forgiveness as a parent. It is important to get your heart to a place of forgiveness before you deal with any heart or behavioural issue from your child. Forgiving is hard - especially when our child keeps doing the same thing over and over - but if we have unforgiveness in our heart - we won’t be able to reach their heart.
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#82: Do you get interrupted throughout the day? Your day starts off with the best of intentions, a plan for the day, a realistic to-do list, and then life happens. I learned pretty quickly as a parent that my plans needed to be flexible. Kids seem to have their own agendas, their own needs and emotions that pop up at the most inconvenient times.
In today's episode, I want to talk about those interruptions – those moments when our kids throw a firecracker in our perfectly planned day. Because these interruptions do happen so often, we really should have a clear understanding of what is going on and how we are going to deal with them.
Blog: How to Handle Interruptions with Heart-focused Results
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#81: Ever feel like there's no time for you to grow spiritually because you're always busy with the kids? In this episode, I look at this a different way because the truth is being a parent can actually help you grow closer to God. As we deal with all the busy and all the exhaustion we can try and do it on our own, or we can press into God. The thing is - the more we depend on God the more like Christ we become - and that, as we’ll find out is God’s purpose. Tune in to find out how you can strengthen your faith and become more and more like Christ - because you are a parent, not inspite of it!
Blog: How your Parenting will Grow your Faith
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#80: We all know it – Being consistent is important as a parent. But we also know it is one of the biggest challenges we face – and it is one of the biggest guilts we deal with. But what does consistency look like? We tend to see it as being 100 percent the same – always; but, that can look like legalism or being authoritarian. Out of reaction, we swing the pendulum the other way – and find ourselves inconsistent! There has to be a balance, a middle road somewhere that makes consistency doable without the guilt of being human.
Blog: How to be Consistent without the Guilt
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#79: My goal as a Christian parent was to raise children who loved God, loved others and who were able to make wise choices as they lived in their community using their passions and talents to be a blessing to others. Sounds good on paper - but how do we raise our kids to do the right thing - to even know what the right thing is and then to have the strength of character to do it? In this episode I talk about 4 practical things we can do that will help our children do the right thing. When you start adding these heart-focused parenting strategies to your parenting toolbox you are laying the groundwork for your kids to be able to step up with integrity and responsibility.
Blog: How to Help your Child do the Right Thing
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#78: Discipline is a big topic - and one that sparks lots of intense feelings. I thought it time to address what I believe about discipline because we use a word - and it may not mean what you think it means. Or at least you may not know what I mean when I use the word. Discipline is understood to be a big part of parenting - if we do it wrong it really does hurt our children - and I don’t mean just physically but emotionally, relationally and even spiritually. This is an area you really have to think about and not just do whatever. We must be intentional when it comes to discipline.
Blog: How to Discipline Your Child And Stay Heart-focused?
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#77: If you have older teens, or young adults living at home then you want to listen in today as I talk about a key parenting strategy that will help your young adult child move into adulthood well, but it will also help you make the transitions you need to as a parent. If your young adult is living at home you need to have what I call a Rites of Passage conversation. Listen in as I explain it and give you the words to say.
Blog: Have This Important Conversation When Your Child Becomes An Adult
This conversation will help you navigate chages in parent-child dynamics when your child becomes an adult.
Further Reading/Listening:
Supporting your Teen and Young Adult Children as a Mentor: Parenting changes and becomes more like mentoring as our children grow older and become teens and young adults. Are you making the shift?
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#76: Today we're talking about three words that changed my parenting: love, mercy, and grace. As Christian parents, we are probably very familiar with those words. But do we let them change how we parent?
Blog: 3 Words that Changed my Parenting
Further Listening
What does it Mean to be a Christian Parent: The truth about Christian parenting isn’t in the things we teach our kids but rather in how we respond. Do we respond as followers of Christ?
Pursue Peace in Your Heart and Home: When we pursue the things of peace, our choices reflect Christ's righteousness and our right standing with Jesus, brings joy and peace every day.
How to be Calm, Gentle and Positive Towards your Children Every Day: 5 keys mindsets for parents to be calm, gentle and positive. When you change your beliefs you change your actions. You can be a gentle and positive parent.
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#75: Feelings of inadequacy can stop Christians from sharing gospel with children. Learn to distinguish conviction from condemnation and how to be in a place where you can confidently talk to your kids about Jesus.
Blog: I’m a Christian, but feel Inadequate to talk to my Children about Jesus
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#74: Are you tired of feeling like you have to do it all to be a "good Christian family"? We are very quick to judge ourselves as not doing the right things, or not doing enough things to be a good Christian family. This is a false standard. What is a good Christian family anyway! Our goal should be to create a space where our children grow in their faith and in their confidence to be who God made them be, our goal needs to be peace and harmony in our home - not just copying what other Christian families do. When we know what is important to us, we can find the right way to make that happen in our family. But we have to remember, every family is different. And trying to keep up with the Christian Jones’s is never going to work!
Blog: Stop Doing All the Things Good Christian Families are Doing
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#73 As Christian parents, we all want our kids to know Jesus - and Easter is a time to create meaningful spiritual moments for our children, but we often get overwhelmed by chocolate and other things. In this episode, I’m talking about the importance of planning how you will approach Easter with intentionality and faith so that your children can grow in their knowledge and faith of Jesus Christ and all He has done for them. As an intentional parent - you need to start thinking about this now.
Blog: Preparing Your Family for a Faith-Centered Easter Celebration
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#72: We all dream of a family home overflowing with love, laughter, and fun. And yet the reality is daily chaos and trying to balance all the things we have to do along with teaching and training our kids! This week I’m sharing a journaling moment that changed my heart, changed my perspective which in turn changed our family - way back when my kids were little. I don’t know about you but for me the Holy Spirit has a way of taking a Bible verse that I am very familiar with and making me really think about it, and and question whether I am living it out. That’s is what I’m talking about this week. A Bible verse that changed how I engaged with my kids. Listen in.
Blog: Parents are you Cultivating a Family Culture of Love and Caring?
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#71: Social media is here to stay so it is something that we as parents have to get our head around. To be honest, regardless of what you think about social media, there is every likelihood that your teen will think something different. How are you going to prepare them to walk wisely? This whole topic is huge and can be daunting. In this epiosode I’m talking about ways that help you navigate from a heart-focus perspective. Regardless of how old your kids are - social media is something you are going to have to think about so I hope you find this episode helpful as you establish your family guidelines for online interactions - and in particular social media.
Blog: The Most Important Thing For Parents to get Right when their Teens want Social Media
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#70: 10 practical steps for intentional, relational, heart-focused christian parenting that you can start implementing today. I know that it is hard to stay intentional in the middle of all the chaos that happens in family life - but ironically intentionality is the key to overcoming the chaos. Not aiming for perfect, but aiming to live life with purpose and in ways that honour and obey God. When we tackle one thing at a time, with intention, change can happen.
This episode is kind of like a summary of 10 things that I feel we did well and that influenced the outcomes of our family life - its a bit longer than usual, but I hope you find it helpful and find something in all this that you can start doing in your family.
Blog: 10 Things we Did as Intentional Parents, that Made our Family
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#69: It is about this time of the year that I start going through a mental wrap up. The end of the year is close, Christmas is pretty much sorted, and now my mind goes to planning next year. And we’ll start to see a whole pile of whoo-ha about setting goals on our socials. How do you feel about that? Does this make you groan, knowing everyone is going to be talking about setting goals, but they just don’t work for you - you know it - and yet it seems like they should work for you but truth be told, you’ve been setting the same goals for years and not really getting anywhere.
Something has to change! Listen in as I talk about the importance of goals (the right goals), and how to make them work for you - even when you are a busy, tired and overwhelmed Mum.
Blog: How to set goals as a Busy, Tired, Overwhelmed Mum
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#68 Thinking back over Christmases Past have you ever felt like you're juggling Christmas chaos, traditions and decorations and invitations - and your children’s behaviour! In the middle of all that chaos going on you just wish your kids had a different attitude and be making different choices. Today I’m sharing 3 character traits that could totally spoil your christmas vibes if you aren’t careful. The reason why I’m talking about these 3 character traits is so you can identify the biggest one for your family and start addressing it now - a few weeks before Christmas. Listen in…. 3 Character Issues you don’t want to spoil your Christmas.
Blog: 3 Character Issues you Don’t Want to Spoil Your Christmas
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#67: I want to end the year well - don’t you? And yet it is so busy, here in Australia we have the end of school, and with that comes concerts, and graduations, and parties. We have Christmas - and all that comes with that. A lot of people head off on holidays to catch up with family or just visit somewhere new. It is a crazy busy time of year. Oh yeah, and while all this happens, we still have to parent. We still need to be intentional, relational, and heart-focused parents. So how do we stay connected with our kids, doing the important things, doing these fun things, and these things that build memories and not be distracted? That is what I’m talking about today - how to be fully present at this time of the year.
Blog: How to be Fully Present in December as You Plan Christmas
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#66 Having time for a Christmas Bible study – that the whole family can do together is one way to keep Christmas about Jesus and to make it heart-focused. And yet ironically, or unfortunately, it is something that we often push to the side, and regret later that we didn’t do something more specific about Jesus this year! Today I’m sharing some tips on finding a bible study that will help you focus on Jesus, but also some ideas, that if you have left it to the last minute there are some things that you can do - pretty much by the seat of your pants, on the run, and yet, still focus on Jesus. Listen in!
Blog: Christmas Bible Study Ideas for the Whole Family
Ebook: Family Faith and Fun Advent Guide: These prompts help you focus on Jesus, being a blessing to others and having fun as a family.
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