Foundation Worldview Podcast

A mom writes in: her 10-year-old daughter compared weights with classmates and now says she's "so fat," though she's at a perfectly healthy weight. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz offers a biblical way to help a child struggling with body image, showing why simply boosting self-esteem falls short and how to get to the real root. She then widens the lens to comparison and coveting in any area of a child's life, from weight to talents to belongings, and walks through how to repent of comparison and replace it with genuine gratitude.

What do you do when your child loves to argue, especially about the Bible? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz answers a parent whose 12-year-old insists Jesus sinned by staying in the temple and by clearing out the money changers. Elizabeth unpacks a question-first approach that keeps a child's genuine questions welcome instead of shutting them down, shows how to take a child back to the text of Scripture, and helps parents discern the heart behind the argument: real curiosity, anger, or pride. She then turns to a second, everyday kind of arguing, rebellion against a parent's instructions, and walks through practical, gospel-centered steps drawn from Ginger Hubbard's "Wise Words for Moms" chart for addressing both complaining and defiance. A hopeful, practical episode for any parent raising a strong-willed, question-asking child.

The new Netflix "Little House on the Prairie" series has arrived, and Christian parents are asking whether it's a good fit for their families. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz rereads the original Laura Ingalls Wilder book and watches all eight episodes to walk you through where the series follows the story and where it veers off. She highlights the positive elements, the content cautions worth knowing ahead of time (including darker themes the book never explores), and the way the series views 19th century pioneers through a modern lens. Most importantly, she offers four biblically grounded worldview questions you can use after any episode to help your children think critically and biblically about the stories they take in.

Disney's live-action Moana is in theaters, and it offers Christian families more than a decision about ticket prices. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz reviews the 2026 film and walks parents through four biblically grounded questions to discuss with their children: how God as Creator differs from Te Fiti, what Scripture says about a human's relationship to the ocean, what our true identity as image bearers is, and where the film's themes of self-sacrificial love point to the true story of Christ. Along the way she notes the content parents should be aware of and offers a framework for using film to train kids to evaluate every idea they encounter through a biblical worldview. Whether or not your family sees the movie, this conversation will help you turn a popular film into an opportunity for discipleship.

Is Montessori a good fit for a Christian family? If you're weighing a Montessori school against a Christian one, this episode gives you a careful, fair place to start.

Elizabeth Urbanowicz evaluates pure Montessori philosophy point by point, using the American Montessori Society's own description, and holds each part up to Scripture. You'll hear where Montessori genuinely reflects how God designed children, their curiosity, the value of mixed-age classrooms, and learning at an individual pace, and where its underlying view of human nature falls short of a biblical understanding. Along the way, Elizabeth shares the specific questions every parent should ask before enrolling a child in any Montessori school.

How do you teach kids to honor authority while also recognizing when an adult is asking them to do something wrong? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz takes the question to Scripture. She walks through what the Bible says about submitting to parents, government, husbands, and the church, then turns to two examples of righteous disobedience, the Hebrew midwives who defied Pharaoh (Exodus 1) and Peter and John before the Sanhedrin (Acts 4). The dividing line in every case is God's Word, which is why teaching kids to read and understand Scripture for themselves is the real goal.

Should you take your kids to Toy Story 5, and what should you talk about afterward?

In this biblical worldview movie review, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks through Pixar's "toy meets tech" story, where 8-year-old Bonnie gets a tablet and slowly drifts from imaginative play, real friendship, and even the people right in front of her. It's a fun film with surprising depth, and it opens the door to real conversations with your children.

In this episode:

1. Why do humans long for friendship, and what does Genesis reveal about it?
2. What makes in-person friendship different from online friendship?
3. Why is imaginative play so good for children?
4. How can technology isolate us, even from the people in the same room?
5. Where do we see true love modeled in the film, and how does it echo the gospel?

Plus two bonus questions about what the movie's wedding scene gets backward, and the beautiful symbolism behind a Christian wedding ceremony.

Whether or not you choose to see the film, you'll walk away with seven biblically grounded questions to help your kids think critically and biblically about screens, friendship, and what they were made for.

At what age is a child ready to participate in the Lord's Supper? And what questions should parents even be asking to find out?

In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz works through four biblical questions that can help you think through this as a family. Should a child be baptized first? Does the age matter? If so, why? And how can parents include younger children in the rhythm of communion even before they take the elements themselves?

If you have been wondering how to handle this question in your own home, this episode gives you a framework to start.

You and your daughter hear a pro-choice argument that catches you off guard: if a building were on fire and you could only save the newborns in the nursery or the frozen embryos in the freezer, everyone would save the newborns, so embryos must not be as valuable. How do you respond?

In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz uses that exact argument to teach a simple, repeatable way to evaluate any objection that gives you pause. You'll learn how to:

1. Pin down what an argument is really claiming, premise by premise.
2. Pressure-test each premise to see whether it actually holds up.
3. Respond wisely, with disarming questions that open a real conversation instead of a debate.

You'll also hear why the gut instinct that an embryo is "less human" than a born baby falls apart under examination, and how a single well-placed question can expose the hidden flaw in the burning-building scenario. It is a conversation that will sharpen your own thinking and give you the tools to train your children to do the same.

Resources mentioned: What Is Truth? (a picture book for ages 4 to 7) and the Careful Thinking curriculum (ages 10 and up), both available at foundationworldview.com.

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When a nine-year-old asks whether his agnostic dad is going to hell, how do you answer honestly without making him afraid of God? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks parents through a Scripture-anchored way to respond: starting with what the Bible says rather than your own opinion, and giving children the fuller picture of who needs rescue, what God has done in Christ, and how deeply God desires the salvation of the very person they're worried about. Along the way, she offers practical encouragement for loving and praying for an unbelieving spouse, and for helping a child reflect Christ at home without carrying a weight that was never theirs to bear.