COURAGEOUS PARENTING

Would you like to be a fly on the wall in Angie’s home as she tends to the needs of her family’s health naturally and cleans without harsh chemicals? Tune into part-two of this series on the vital topic of keeping healthy homes in these uncertain times and get her tips.

Health matters, but how do you do it well enough while managing all the other aspects of life? Tune in to find out how Angie tends to the health needs of her home of eight kids and marriage of 20 years. In this episode, which is part one of a two-part series, she shares her tips and we encourage what it looks like to fully embrace the health of your family while also discussing the power and importance of nurturing your child's needs and how to utilize house plants.

There’s no family like yours, so never try to be just like someone else's. Get ready to be encouraged to embrace and further discover the unique plan God has for your family. Isaac and Angie share their 20-year marriage journey as they wrestled many times on whether to have another child or not, how they came to be a large family, and why they don’t believe everyone should have a large family.

Often foolishness is disguised as wisdom today and there’s an unending number of people that will try and sway you one way or another. We must teach and model for our kids how to detect and only pursue Biblically sound wisdom. It can become so easy to embrace the wisdom that supports how we feel about something, but what happens when how we feel is wrong? We have to have good mentors in our lives that we can bounce things off of and know we will get sound advice.

Part-one of a two-part series: We live in a noisy world with too many people trying to influence us with their advice. That’s why it’s more important than ever to be careful about who we glean wisdom from. Often foolishness is disguised as wisdom, and we need to know how to detect it quickly. If you don’t know how to do this well, you won’t model or teach it to your kids. This is perhaps one of the most important things they learn from you.

If you want your kids to be wise decision-makers in the midst of increasing uncertainty, we must model and teach them critical skills in conjunction with how to seek God’s wisdom through the Scriptures. Check your decision-making and critical thinking skills and habits against these 6 biblical principles. Remember, all people naturally pursue the paths of least resistance, but if you make decisions that get you back to comfort as soon as possible, it’s likely not the best decision.

We live in the freest country in the world, with rights, but if you don’t know them, you won’t know when to stand strong in the face of persecution. Christians are warned in God’s word about the persecution that they will experience for following His ways. As we are all raising children for an uncertain world it is vital that we teach our children what their rights are as well as to give honor where honor is due by living in a way that brings honor to those who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms, liberties, and rights. This is a must-listen episode for every parent as we share personal stories, an overview of the constitution, and practical tips for living in an uncertain world.

In this episode, we give you seven practical tips to help equip your kids to stand strong in their faith in an uncertain world. We must model and teach assuming virtue in others, especially when in conflict. If our kids are going to be effective for the Gospel when they are older, they must experience loving others well in your home first. This is a must-listen for parents with kids of all ages.

In this episode, you will learn how to influence your children to become better students by adjusting to what provides an optimal learning environment. There’s a lot you can do to accelerate their learning. In this second part series, we give you the next four disciplines that can help accelerate learning. If you follow these eight disciplines in this two-part series it will have a dramatic impact on the pace your children will learn but also make the journey much more enjoyable and productive.

Whether you homeschool or not, you are your child’s most important teacher. In this two-part series, we teach eight disciplines that will forever boost your ability to educate them and fuel their lifelong love for learning. This is part one, where we talk about how to teach towards their interests, thoughts about curriculum, how to grow a love of learning, and the importance of experiential learning. Tune in for practical insights and ideas.