House of Roberts Podcast

You love your kids. So why does parenthood feel so much harder than you expected?

In this episode of House of Roberts, we’re talking honestly about becoming parents—the overwhelm, the changing routines, the pressure to know what you’re doing, and the moments when it doesn’t come naturally.

Gabrielle shares why stepping into motherhood was harder than she expected and how God met her in the middle of that transition. Michael opens up about the adjustments fatherhood required and why raising children has to be a team effort.

As parents of four, we’re sharing what helped us through those early years, what we would tell our younger selves, and how parenting can become an opportunity to grow closer in marriage.

In this conversation:
• Learning to ask God for help in the everyday moments
• Finding community that understands without minimizing your struggles
• Navigating ambition and the limits of a new season
• Adjusting expectations and sharing responsibility as a couple
• Accepting help while learning to lean on each other
• Continuing to date your spouse while raising children

Whether you’re expecting your first baby, raising little ones, or adjusting to another new season, our hope is that you leave encouraged and ready to take one practical step with your family.

What surprised you most about becoming a parent? Tell us in the comments—and let us know what parenting questions you’d like us to talk about next.

Share this episode with a parent who could use some encouragement, and subscribe or follow House of Roberts for more conversations about faith, marriage, parenting, home, and everyday rhythms.

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What if one of the most important things you could do for your family happened around the dinner table?

In this episode of the House of Roberts Podcast, we're talking about why we believe the table is one of the most important places in the home — a place to connect, laugh, tell stories, build family culture, disciple your kids, and simply be together.

But meaningful family dinners don't happen automatically.

Busy schedules, sports, technology, work, and the everyday chaos of raising kids can slowly pull families in different directions. And even when everyone does make it to the table, it can be easy to sit together without actually connecting.

We're talking about how to change that.

In this episode:
• Why the table has spiritual significance
• What our own family dinners looked like growing up
• Why you don't need a perfect dinner to create a meaningful moment
• How to start small if your family rarely eats together
• Why consistency matters more than creating a “perfect” family dinner
• How sharing stories can help build faith and family culture
• Getting your kids involved in cooking and serving
• Why we've chosen to make the dinner table a priority in our own home

We also share the story behind House Cards — something that actually began during one of the chaotic seasons of raising our four kids.

One little stack of conversation cards completely changed a meal for us. The kids stopped squirming, everyone started talking and laughing, and dinner went from something we were enduring to something we were actually enjoying.

That moment eventually became House Cards: 200 family conversation cards and riddles designed to help families connect around the table.

Designed for your table. Made for your family.

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Because dinnertime is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.

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Have you spent your whole life being told you’re too sensitive?

Do you pick up on what’s happening around you, carry other people’s pain, or feel responsible for making everything better?

After our conversation about raising a sensitive child, so many adults told us, “That’s me.” This week, we’re continuing that conversation for the grown-up who feels deeply and wants to know what to do with it.

We talk about sensitivity, discernment, and learning to bring what we feel into prayer. Gabrielle shares a vulnerable story from an overwhelming season of motherhood, and we open up about how we’ve learned to value each other’s gifts through 17 years of marriage.

In this episode, we discuss:

· Bringing what you notice and feel to God before rushing to fix it.

· Letting Scripture shape your response to your emotions.

· Supporting a sensitive spouse through listening, prayer, and practical help.

· Starting with small, sincere prayers in the middle of everyday life.

Whether you see yourself in this conversation or love someone who feels deeply, we hope it helps you take a practical next step with God.

Share this episode with someone who would connect with it, subscribe to House of Roberts, and tell us: What part of this conversation sounded like your life?

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Related episode: How to Parent a Sensitive Child

What happens when a wife is spiritually ahead of her husband? How can a husband begin leading his family when he still feels like he’s figuring out his own faith?

In this episode of the House of Roberts Podcast, we answer two questions from our audience.

First, we talk honestly about spiritual leadership in marriage: why some husbands hesitate to lead, the simple ways a husband can begin, and how a wife can encourage him without comparing, criticizing, or trying to force the process.

Then we get into a parenting question every family eventually faces: What should you do when another child begins negatively influencing yours? We talk about believing the best, helping children work through conflict, knowing when to involve the other parents, and recognizing when protecting your child may require changing a friendship.

In this episode:

• Why spiritual authority begins with submission to God
• The simplest way a husband can begin leading
• Why a husband doesn’t need to be 50 steps ahead
• How wives can create room for their husbands to grow
• When to step into your child’s friendship problems
• Why we don’t immediately “go nuclear”
• Choosing the stewardship of your children over protecting every friendship

If this episode encouraged you, send it to a husband, wife, or parent who needs it.

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What happens when you love your spouse, love your kids… but somewhere along the way your marriage starts feeling more like a partnership for managing life than an actual marriage?

In this episode of House of Roberts, we’re answering questions from you — starting with one we think a lot of couples experience after having kids: How do you keep from becoming roommates?

We talk about why good things can still get out of order, how easily a marriage can become kid-centered, why continuing to date each other matters, and some of the simple rhythms we use to stay connected even when life is busy or money is tight.

We also talk about something our kids are learning every time they watch our marriage: what it looks like for a husband and wife to actually enjoy, prioritize, pursue, and make room for one another.

Then we tackle another big question: How do you stay faith-filled when you're walking through a hard season?

Sometimes the answer isn't another five-step plan. Sometimes it's doing what you already know to do when you don't know what else to do — getting in the Word, praying, keeping your head, enduring, refusing isolation, and surrounding yourself with people who will truly pray for you.

We also talk about:

• Why your spouse should still come before your kids
• Simple ways to keep dating when life is full
• Why your schedule reveals what you actually value
• Talking to your spouse instead of expecting them to read your mind
• The marriage your kids are learning by watching you
• Why feelings sometimes follow faithfulness
• How to keep your head in difficult seasons
• Why hard seasons don't get the final word
• The power of having real intercessors praying for you
• Why isolation gives the enemy room to work

If your marriage has felt disconnected lately, you're walking through something difficult, or you simply need some encouragement to keep going, this conversation is for you.

Welcome to our loud, crazy Christian home. We hope it encourages, equips, and inspires yours.

Your home already has a culture.

The question is: Are you intentionally creating it, or simply allowing it to form?

Recently, we started noticing more disrespect, harsh words, sibling conflict, and dishonor showing up in our own home. Instead of trying to fix everything at once, we decided to identify one thing and intentionally go after it.

For our family, that thing is honor.

In this episode, we're bringing you into what we're implementing in real time—from defining what honor looks like, to connecting it to Scripture, establishing clear consequences, and helping our kids learn to speak life over one another.

We also talk about why family culture can't simply be imposed on our children. If we want them to live out a value, we have to be willing to ask whether we're modeling it first.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why prayer changes the way we discipline our children
• Why correction and consequences are still necessary
• How unity impacts the culture of a home
• Why you shouldn't try to fix ten parenting issues at once
• How we're currently teaching honor through words and actions
• The practical consequences we're putting around dishonor
• Why we use Scripture as part of both correction and formation
• Why the values we want in our kids have to begin with us
• How to build a home founded on the Word of God

We're not sharing a perfect system or a finished formula. We're inviting you into something we're still working through in our own home.

Our hope is that this episode helps you slow down and ask:

What is the one thing God may be asking us to strengthen in our home right now?

Welcome to the House of Roberts Podcast—a podcast where we bring you into our loud, crazy Christian home to encourage, equip, and inspire yours.

Psalm 133:1–3
Ephesians 6:1–3
Romans 12:10
Psalm 19:14
Proverbs 29:11
Matthew 5:9
Matthew 7:24–27
Matthew 12:34
Luke 6:45
James 1:22

We were pulling a few verses from memory in this episode and mixed up a couple references along the way 😅

The verses we were referring to are Matthew 12:34 / Luke 6:45 for “out of the abundance of the heart…,” Matthew 5:9for “blessed are the peacemakers…,” and Psalm 19:14 for “may the words of my mouth…”

We wanted to make sure you had the correct references as you listen and study along.

The school year can bring helpful structure—but if we aren’t intentional, school, sports, homework, and activities can quickly begin controlling the rhythm of our homes.

In this episode, Michael and Gabrielle talk honestly about navigating the transition back to school and protecting the things that matter most in the middle of a busy season. They share their family’s back-to-school tradition of worship, communion, prayer, and blessing their children—and why parents don’t need to be pastors or spiritual experts to create meaningful moments like these at home.

They also challenge families to examine whether every opportunity is actually beneficial. Are our schedules strengthening our children, marriages, and family culture—or are they keeping everyone moving too quickly to stay connected?

From protecting family dinners and creating regular check-ins with your spouse to evaluating what each individual child actually needs, this conversation is an invitation to stop letting the calendar make your family’s decisions.

Michael and Gabrielle also share how they discern God-given ideas through time and prayer, why they are continuing to rethink what education could look like for their family, and how to recognize when God may be preparing you to make a change.

You don’t have to overhaul your entire life this week. Ask the Holy Spirit to highlight one adjustment that could bring greater health, connection, and purpose into your home.

God can do a lot with a little when that little is submitted to Him.

What if your address isn’t accidental?

We often think of purpose and ministry as something that happens somewhere else—at church, on a mission trip, or through a major calling. But what if God wants to use you right where you already live?

In this episode, Michael and Gabrielle talk about the lost art of knowing your neighbors and why they believe God intentionally places us around particular people. Through stories from their own neighborhoods, they share practical ways to build genuine relationships: spending more time in the front yard, being willing to make the first move, asking meaningful questions, sharing meals, and opening your home.

This isn’t about treating people like projects or forcing spiritual conversations. It’s about becoming genuinely friendly, loving people well, and trusting God to create opportunities for your life and faith to make an impact.

Whether you live in a house, apartment, condo, or community complex, there are people around you for a reason—and ministry may be waiting right outside your front door.

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If you have a “baby” of the family, you know how easy it is to treat them a little differently.

Maybe the rules aren't quite as strict. Maybe you do things for them that their older siblings had to do for themselves. Maybe you still look at them and think, But they're my baby.

We get it — because we're living it too.

In this episode of the House of Roberts Podcast, we're talking about how to intentionally parent the youngest child in your family without accidentally keeping them dependent, underdeveloped, or simply “along for the ride.”

We share some of the adjustments we're making with our own youngest — from giving him real responsibility and a place on the family team, to teaching independence, raising expectations, and using our words to call him toward who God created him to become.

Because the goal isn't just to enjoy who our children are today. It's also to have a God-given vision for who they're becoming.

If you're raising the baby of the family — whether they're 5, 10, or already a teenager — this conversation will encourage you to love them deeply without being afraid to require something of them.

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Some kids argue about everything. Others feel everything.

If you're raising a child who is emotional, deeply sensitive, compassionate, or easily overwhelmed, this episode is for you.

As parents, it's easy to mistake sensitivity for weakness or assume our job is to toughen our children up. But what if God designed some children to experience the world differently? What if their sensitivity is actually one of their greatest strengths?

In this episode, Michael and Gabrielle share what they're learning from raising one of their own children who is naturally sensitive, emotionally aware, and deeply discerning. They discuss how to help these kids process their emotions without being controlled by them, why Scripture and prayer are essential anchors, and how parents can cultivate the unique gifts God has placed inside their children instead of accidentally shutting them down.

Whether your child cries easily, notices everything, carries the burdens of others, or simply feels life more deeply than their siblings, you'll leave this conversation with practical encouragement and biblical wisdom to help them flourish.

In this episode you'll learn:
• How to recognize the difference between emotional immaturity and God-given sensitivity.
• Why emotions should inform us—but never lead us.
• How discernment and sensitivity often go hand in hand.
• Why sensitive children need to be taught to pray, not just process.
• Practical ways to parent without crushing your child's unique design.

Your child's sensitivity may not be something to fix—it may be something God wants you to faithfully develop.

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