By design, life with our children is about meeting their legitimate needs in the ways of love.  Life is not about our children perfectly meeting standards--because we need their goodness to establish their identity...or our own.  

Identity is from God.  Identity is something we live from--not something we live to earn or deserve.

Join Doug and Janet in this episode as they practically unpack four more specific ways we can meet our children's real needs.  Take a break from a performance-obsessed worldview, and linger in these takeaways:

• We get to intentionally build habits of engagement with our children--and let these habits take the place of shaming, blaming, fear, and control.
• In relationships we can trust, love keeps us connected to truth.  Lies get lost.  Reconciliation is real.  Fruitful lives take the place of simply successful lives.
• Life with our children is about meeting their legitimate needs in the ways of love.  We don't meet needs by manipulating and evaluating.  We meet needs by sharing the love that has met our real needs--because now we can.

Follow this link to listen now--and share the BRAVE LOVE podcast with your friends.  Let us know your real questions--and we'll include them in an upcoming episode. Email us at [email protected]  There is great hope!