Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel

Porn is targeting your kids—and most parents don’t realize how early it starts. Research shows the average age of first exposure is just 11–13, with some kids seeing it as young as 9. In this episode, Greta Eskridge—author, podcaster, speaker, and homeschooling mom of four—joins Paige Clingenpeel for a candid conversation about protecting kids from porn. Greta shares her own story of healing after her husband’s porn addiction and affair, and why she’s passionate about helping families have this conversation early. They discuss how to talk proactively, age-appropriately, and without fear. If you’re unsure where to start, this episode offers both clarity and encouragement.

Paige’s Takeaways

• Create a Digital Safety Plan 
  • Kids are growing up in a completely different world than we did. Having a plan sets clear boundaries and helps them feel safe coming to you.
    
    
• Keep Conversations Short & Ongoing 
  • Think of it as planting seeds over time, not a one-time talk.
    
    
• Talk Honestly About Temptation 
  • Help them understand natural body responses, the pull of temptation, and God’s design for our bodies and spirits.
    
    
• Disciple, Don’t Just Monitor 
  • Walk with your kids spiritually, not just behaviorally.
    
    
• Be Honest About Your Own Struggles 
  • Vulnerability builds trust.
    
    
• Be a Safe Place 
  • Above all, let your kids know they can always come to you—without shame or fear.

It's Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn: https://a.co/d/614HvVA
Learn more about Greta: https://www.gretaeskridge.com/ 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast: https://www.gretaeskridge.com/podcast
Greta’s Books: https://www.gretaeskridge.com/books
A Student’s Guide to Sexual Integrity: God’s Plan for Sex and Your Body by Dr. Jim Burns:  https://homeword.com/product/students-guide-to-sexual-integrity-gods-plan-for-sex-and-your-body/
Understanding Your Teen: Shaping Their Character, Facing Their Realities by Dr. Jim Burns: https://homeword.com/product/understanding-your-teen/ 

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“We can’t parent the way our parents parented us.” In this episode, Dr. Jim Burns—founder of HomeWord, speaker, author, and podcaster—joins the conversation to help parents of teens navigate the challenges of raising the next generation. Together, we explore topics like rebellion, entitlement, disconnection, and the overwhelming impact of social media. Dr. Burns shares practical ways parents can equip their teens with wisdom, responsibility, and a biblical worldview. From assigning meaningful tasks to setting clear boundaries, he offers tools to help teens grow in stewardship, identity, and faith. We discuss the importance of letting our kids wrestle with big questions in the safety of home, while guiding them back to truth. If you're a parent looking for practical steps and spiritual encouragement, this episode is for you.

Paige’s Takeaways

• Parenting Needs to Evolve  
  • We can’t parent the same way our parents did; today’s teens face new challenges.
    
    
    
• Equip Teens for Digital Stewardship 
  • Give them tools to navigate technology wisely and make autonomous, healthy choices.
    
    
    
• Combat Entitlement with Responsibility 
  • Assign meaningful tasks and set clear expectations to foster maturity.
    
    
    
• Support Identity in Christ 
  • Help teens stay grounded in who they are by rooting their identity in biblical truth.
    
    
    
• Foster Safe Curiosity at Home 
  • Let kids ask hard questions and explore faith in a loving, open environment.
    
    
    
• Balance Performance and Peace 
  • Provide practical strategies for managing school stress and keeping priorities aligned.

HomeWord: https://homeword.com/ 

Understanding Your Teen by Dr. Jim Burns: https://homeword.com/product/understanding-your-teen/
Grace-Based Parenting by Dr. Tim Kimmel: https://a.co/d/5J5KR9g
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Pastor, Author, and Speaker Mike Novotny joins the show to talk about why certain topics—like sex, shame, and sin—feel so “taboo,” and how parents can break the silence with Gospel-centered conversations. Drawing from his personal battle with pornography, Mike shares practical ways to create a culture of honesty, grace, and truth in the home.

He emphasizes the importance of these conversations, and encourages parents to have them early. He also reminds us that God’s design for healing is found in community. This episode offers hope, wisdom, and tools to help you talk with your kids about hard things—without shame and with the love of Christ at the center.

Paige’s Takeaways

• Share your flaws with your kids (in an age appropriate way)
  • It’ll break down the walls
  • Relationships can heal
• Create a Gospel culture in your home
  • Live out the Gospel in your home
  • Show grace when our kids come to us
  • This does not mean there are no consequences, but that 
• Continue to have dialogue
  • Taboo subjects should be talked about frequently
  • Be a safe place for your kids to talk to where they can come to to hear truth
  • Talk about what the Bible says and what having a biblical worldview looks like
• We need community
  • When we sin, confess, and pray together, it brings healing

Time of Grace: https://timeofgrace.org/ 

Taboo by Mike Novotny: https://timeofgrace.store/collections/donors-favorites/products/taboo 

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In this heartfelt and insightful episode, Paige reflects on the joys and challenges of parenting through the different seasons of a child's life—from infancy to high school. She shares personal experiences and practical wisdom on how to adapt as a parent at each stage. From building a strong support system in the early years to helping teens navigate independence and responsibility, Paige emphasizes the importance of emotional safety, intentional communication, and trusting God’s purpose in our children’s lives. Whether you’re parenting littles or guiding high schoolers, this conversation offers encouragement, perspective, and real-life tools to help you thrive through every phase.

Paige’s Takeaways

• Infancy: 
  • Invite people in to help you
  • Community and mental health are very important during this time
• Kindergarten/Elementary:
  • Delay introducing technology
  • Get your kids in activities/extracurriculars
• Middle School:
  • Allow your children to make decisions around their friendships and peers
  • Don’t allow the drama at school to impact your reaction or response as a parent
  • Be a safe place for your children to talk to
• High School:
  • Let your kids make choices for themselves but be consistent with consequences 
  • Speak life into your teens
  • Make sure they continue to feel emotionally safe at home
  • Focus on the positive and how you can push them toward correct choices and growth

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Pine Hills Church: https://pinehills.church/ 

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Mama, have you ever believed the lie that your child’s behavior defines you? Or felt like you’re the only one struggling while everyone else has it all together? In this episode, Paige exposes four common lies moms face in parenting—lies that steal our joy and keep us stuck in shame and comparison.

We’ll talk about the difference between discipline and discipleship, control and surrender, ownership and stewardship. God didn’t call us to be perfect—He called us to be faithful. Let’s tear down these lies and walk in freedom as the moms He created us to be.

Ready to breathe again? Let’s go there together.

Paige’s Takeaways

• Lie #1: Our kids’ behavior directly reflects us as their parents.
  • We don’t have to teach kids what not to do because of our sin nature, but instead, we need to teach them what to do. This is discipleship.
• Lie #2: Everyone else has it all together, I am the only one who struggles.
  • Social media does not show what is real.
  • But Jesus tells us to be counter-cultural and radical. We know we are sinners and will struggle, but He is faithful and just. 
  • We have to surrender to authenticity and model how we go through struggles for our kids.
• Lie #3: Micromanaging will produce results.
  • We tend to discipline our children more than disciple.
  • Rules and structure are love. 
  • Parents, are we praying before disciplining? 
  • Surrender control to the Lord.
• Lie #4: Our children belong to us.
  • There is a difference between responsibility and ownership. 
  • God gives our kids to us so we can raise them up and they can declare His glory. 
  • We have to surrender ownership - not only of our children but of our own lives.
  • We are not alone in our parenting. God says, ‘Come to me.’

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Pine Hills Church: https://pinehills.church/ 

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How do we raise the next generation with health, wisdom, empowerment, and encouragement in a world increasingly shaped by technology? In this episode, Paige shares her TEDx Talk and offers insights on how technology is transforming teen behavior—impacting their brains, communication, and connection. How do we ensure our kids feel loved, safe, and purposeful in this digital age? Our children are the future leaders of this world. It’s up to us to guide, equip, and love them well.

Paige’s Takeaways

The three core needs of our kids:

• To be LOVED
  • Love looks like boundaries and structure
  • Love does not look like indulgence and giving your kids everything you never had
  • Discipline (teaching) is love
• To be SAFE
  • It’s okay to make mistakes because it will add to our kids success
• To have PURPOSE
  • We are all gifted with personality, strength, and weaknesses. We need to start embracing those and sharing those. 
  • Encourage your kids, equip them, tell them they have purpose.

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#embracingyourseason #paigeclingenpeel #tedtalk #teens #teenagers #parenting #technology #mentalhealth #podcast #podcastcommunity #homeword #pfcaudiovideo 

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It’s easy for us to drown in the messy problems we’re facing each day, but if we stop and remember where God has shown up for us before, we may discover that laughter and even joy are hiding in the mud. Today, Paige welcomes Cynthia Yanof. Cynthia is a wife, mother, podcast host of the show MESSmerized, blogger, and author of Life is Messy God is Good - the topic of today’s episode. Cynthia looks at life and all its hardships with the deep understanding that God is sovereign AND He is good - and that if we take the time to look back at all the ways He has come through for us before (especially in ways we didn't expect), we can move through life’s difficulties with a little less heaviness on our shoulders and a little more laughter in our hearts. 

Paige’s Takeaways

• Value the quality of your friendships, not the quantity. Cherish the ones who point you back to Jesus.
• Stones of Remembrance: Remember where God has been in your life! Write down what God is doing in this moment and season, so you can stand against the seasons of despair where the enemy will want to come in and lie to you!
• Give “Easy Yeses” wherever you can! Let your kids have some (safe) autonomy. Allow them easy yeses so that they can learn, grow, and gain confidence. 

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Book: Life is Messy, God is Good: Sanity for the Chaos of Everyday Life

Connecting with Cynthia Yanof

https://cynthiayanof.com/

Facebook: @cynthia.yanof

Instagram: @cynthiayanof

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*Trigger Warning* This episode contains adult themes, specifically centered around suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

Today, Paige welcomes Jay Lowder. Called to full-time evangelism in 1989, Jay is the founder of Jay Lowder Harvest Ministries, an organization dedicated to reaching diverse groups of people with the message of Jesus Christ. Through his ministry, he travels the globe to football stadiums, schools, churches, and coliseums to provide a message of hope to the hurting. Jay developed the nationally acclaimed school assembly Crossroads, which has been presented to 2 million students nationwide. Jay shares his incredibly powerful testimony and challenges us that a “spiritual experience”, while potentially a catalyst for faith, isn’t a deep relationship with Jesus - that requires intention, dedication, reading His word, and living out the truth that Jesus is Lord and Savior in your life, every day. 

Paige’s Takeaways

• Trust that God is with you and that He has you (and your kids).
  • This doesn’t come quickly or necessarily naturally. This takes time in His Word, in prayer, in community with those who have walked with Him longer. Model this to your kids and provide counsel and support so they can grow in their own relationship with Him. 
• Don’t pray away the Goliaths for your kids.
  • As much as we want a smooth and happy life for them, we sometimes have to let them make their own decisions (good and bad) so they learn and build their foundation of faith and trust in Jesus. 
• Let them see the real Christ in your life.
  • What does your life with Jesus look like in the day-to-day? Are you modeling Christlike behaviors to your kids? Do they see you reading your Bible and praying? Are you showing your kids that Jesus is priority #1 in your life?
• Pray for your kids!
  • We can rest in the knowledge that God hears our prayers and loves our children more than we can.

Paige Clingenpeel

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Connecting with Jay Lowder

Jay Lowder Harvest Ministries

Facebook: @jaylowder

Instagram: @jay_lowder

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The effects of trauma can show up in weird ways throughout our lives. Maybe a certain song takes you back to when you were 12 and your parents told you they were getting a divorce, maybe there’s a smell that takes you back to your first love and first real heartbreak, or maybe, like Paige shares in todays episode, it’s watching your son break his arm and feeling utterly helpless to fix his pain. We’ve all experienced trauma in our lives and, when left unresolved - pushed down, hidden beneath distractions, masked with lies of being “fine” - it can rear its head with no warning. In this episode, Paige and producer Mike share with raw honesty some of their own traumatic experiences and encourage listeners that wherever you stand with your trauma, you can move through it towards hope and healing.

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Guest Info:

Mike Segovia - PFC Audio Video

Paige’s Takeaways

1. Your body always remembers trauma.
   1. Make sure you face it head on and get help - and be wise about who you go to!
2. Surround yourself with truth seekers and truth speakers!

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Today, Paige welcomes Matt Arnett, the Community Pastor and Director of Business on Mission & Church on Mission for The Bucket Ministry, a nonprofit organization that works to provide the love of Jesus and clean water solutions to communities in need around the world. He is also a committed husband and father with a strong heart for engaging children in missions, believing they are not just recipients of ministry, but active participants in God’s work. This is such a beautiful conversation full of reminders that we as parents have the incredible privilege of discipling our children and empowering them to go out into the world to be a light for Jesus. 

Paige’s Takeaways

• Asking: What is my daily mission?
  • I believe that we have been made on purpose, for a purpose. How are we talking to our kids about their purpose every day? How can they be the best friend they can be? How can they be the best team member? How can they be the best follower of Jesus?
• Helping our kids identify what makes them unique
  • When we ask our kids about what they love to do, we can encourage them to be a light in those arenas. Maybe your kid enjoys video games - how can they be a light and build community in that area? Perhaps they are a gifted athlete - how can they show Jesus through their actions on the team?

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Resources Mentioned:

The Bucket Ministry

Facebook: @The Bucket Ministry

Instagram: @thebucketministry

Meet Matt Arnett

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