What do you say when your child is hurting over something that can’t be changed?

In this episode of the Foundation Worldview Podcast, Elizabeth Urbanowicz answers a heartfelt question from a parent whose six-year-old daughter feels lonely as an only child. While Scripture like Isaiah 41:10 offers comfort, this episode explores a more robust, biblical framework for walking children through suffering, disappointment, and unmet longings.

Elizabeth shares five practical, Scripture-rooted steps parents can use to help their children process pain without minimizing it—teaching them to trust God, grow in gratitude, and love others even in hard circumstances. While this episode focuses on loneliness, the principles apply to many forms of childhood suffering.

What should you do when your young child starts pointing out inappropriate or sinful behavior in public? In this episode of the Foundation Worldview Podcast, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks parents through a simple, biblical framework for helping kids recognize sin without developing pride or a sense of superiority. Learn how to guide children, especially ages 3–8, to discern God’s good design, remember biblical truth, and respond with kindness and humility.

What do you do when your kids constantly ask for sugar, and you don’t want to swing between indulgence and restriction? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz shares a simple, biblical framework to help parents guide children when good things begin to take too important a place. Using sugar and media as examples, you’ll learn how to teach gratitude, set wise boundaries, and help your kids recognize when something good is drifting toward idolatry.

KPop Demon Hunters has become unexpectedly popular—even among Christian families. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks parents through a thoughtful, spoiler-filled review of the movie and offers four biblically grounded conversations to help kids think critically about spiritual warfare, identity, love, and salvation. If your child is encountering this movie, or feeling pressure to, this episode will equip you to guide them with clarity and biblical truth.

Words shape how our children think. In this episode, we explore how to biblically teach kids to think carefully about words—using basketball, baseball, and everyday language to help them discern meaning, truth, and cultural distortion through a biblical worldview.

What’s the difference between innocent pretend play and adopting an identity that denies God’s design? In this episode of the Foundation Worldview Podcast, Elizabeth Urbanowicz offers a biblical perspective on furry culture while equipping parents to help their children discern the difference between God-given imagination and suppressing the truth. Parents will walk away with practical, age-appropriate tools to guide kids in thinking clearly, compassionately, and biblically.

What do you do when your child keeps sinning, especially when it’s become a pattern? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks parents through a biblical approach to discipline that goes beyond stopping behavior and aims at the heart: confession, repentance, putting off sin, putting on what’s right, and implementing wise consequences that train children toward godliness.

Is the David movie a helpful way to introduce children to Scripture, or does it blur important biblical truths? In this special movie review episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks parents through the key positives and concerns in the David film and shares three biblically grounded questions to help kids think critically and biblically after watching. Whether you’re deciding if your family should watch or already have, this episode equips you to disciple your children with wisdom and discernment.

Many children struggle with fears that seem to spiral out of control—whether it’s natural disasters, illness, or other “what if” worries. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz explores how parents can help young children respond to fear and anxiety in ways that align with God’s design. Drawing from both Scripture and research, she explains how addressing both the physical and spiritual aspects of anxiety equips children to rest in what is true and grow in confidence and trust in God.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
• Let Grow Parent Kit
• Foundation Worldview’s Attributes of God Curriculum -
• Foundation Worldview Podcast episodes on The Anxious Generation

Every Christmas, Christian parents face the same question: How should we handle Santa? In today’s episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz takes a thoughtful, biblical look at this cultural tradition and explores what Scripture has to say as we seek to shepherd our children well.

Whether your family already has established Christmas rhythms or you’re still deciding how to approach the season, this episode will equip you to think wisely, intentionally, and biblically about Santa, and how to keep your family’s focus rooted in the true hope of Christmas.

Join us for a gentle, Scripture-anchored conversation designed to help you make the best decision for your home this season.