It's almost summer, so let’s talk about one of my favorite ways to pursue intentional connection with our kids and friends—having a book club! Reading books together has been one of the most connecting activities for me since I was a little girl and my mom read aloud with me. It has remained that in my life until now, as I have read books with my kids and with my friends. And then what has taken our reading together to the next level is to celebrate the books we’ve read together by having a book club meeting/celebration—you can call it what you want. These book club celebrations have been a huge part of my kids’ childhood. They have loved them! And still do. And the book club I have had with my own friends for 12 years is still going strong and bringing me so much joy!

Book clubs are a way to take reading to the next level and make it feel more special. Invite friends! Make fun snacks! Dress up! Or just gather some friends to sit around the picnic table, have some popsicles or iced tea, and talk about the book you read together. No matter how you do it, being intentional about gathering to read a book together and then celebrating it will be a gift in your life. And I am inviting you to try it this summer!

Some of the resources mentioned in this episode:

My book, Adventuring Together, that has a whole chapter with instructions for a kid or mom book club and book lists. Find it here.

My friend Ainsley’s inspiring Wild + Free book about book clubs. Find it here

Find some Instagram posts about our kids book club here, here,here, here and here, and the famous Hobbit book club here.

Find some Instagram posts about our moms book club here, here, here and here.

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

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Friends, I was on the verge of tears, or actually crying, for this whole episode. The conversation is so dear to my heart, and it is so important. I wish I never had to share this information with you, but since I do, I am so glad I get to do it with today’s guest, Rosie Makinney. I’ve wanted to have Rosie to be on my podcast before I ever even had one! That’s just how much she inspires me; how much I admire her and how deeply I appreciate the work she does. She is a mother, wife, podcaster, speaker, author, the founder of the organization, Fight for Love. And in this work that she does, Rosie is indeed a fighter for love, for marriages and for women.  

     Rosie’s work is two-fold: fighting to educate women about porn use/addiction in the lives of their partners or husbands in order to provide preventative help, and fighting to come alongside women whose partners or husband’s porn use/addiction has caused great hurt and destruction in their lives. Both aspects of her work come out of the pain of her own story with two men who had porn addictions, one who was unrepentant and didn’t see it as a problem and one who admitted a problem but needed help to break free of it. In both cases, Rosie’s compassion and love for women who are suffering greatly due to their partner or husband’s porn use grew and she knew she had to do something to help these women. She let God give her pain purpose and so many women, including myself, have benefitted from Rosie’s courage, vulnerability and wisdom.  

     You will find this episode to be so full of practical, helpful information. If you are walking through this very thing in your marriage, you will feel seen and understood. We hope you will realize you are not alone. If this is not your story, we hope you will listen anyway, because it is the story of a sister, a friend, a neighbor, a daughter, or a women that sits next to you in church, and she needs your support. Get educated and grow your compassion so you can share both with a woman who is hurting, yourself or someone else.  

     This episode is very dear to my heart, and I am so deeply honored I get to share it with you. I am so deeply honored I get to share Rosie and the incredibly important work she does with you. Please listen and share this episode. It matters so much. The freedom is worth it! 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find your 4 steps for help with a partner/spouse and their porn use/addiction  here 

Find the Fight for Love Facebook group here 

Find Pure Desire Ministries here 

Find Pure Desire groups for porn users/addicts here 

Find Pure Desire groups for betrayed spouses here 

Find Called to Peace here 

Find Greta’s book, It’s Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn, here 

“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ashes.” Elisabeth Elliot 

Where you can find Rosie: 

Find Rosie’s website here 

Find Rosie’s book here 

Find Rosie’s podcast here 

Find Rosie on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

My guest today is Eryn Lynum: master naturalist, author, bible teacher, home schooling mom, and podcast host. Friends, she’s incredible! And this episode with her is just so fun! We had the best time talking about nature and seeing God at work there. 

Eryn’s love of nature and God’s word have taught her much about the importance of pursuing rest. But this learning actually began when Eryn was a young teen.   At the age of 14, Eryn learned that she had a potentially life-threatening disease that required rest to keep her alive. This started Eryn on a journey of learning to manage the stress and anxieties of life in a way that was healthy and holy.  

In this episode, Eryn talks about her new book, The Nature of Rest: What the Bible and Creation Teach Us About Sabbath Living, and how it is the story of all she’s learned about rest from her own life journey, to studying creation and God’s word. Eryn is a joy to talk to. She is a wealth of fun and fascinating nature knowledge, as well as a wise guide to biblical living. I love this episode, and I know you will too! 

Be sure to get Eryn’s new book today! You can find it right here. 

Resources mentioned in this podcast: 

Find Eryn’s new book here 

Find Eryn’s first book here 

Find Eryn’s website here 

Find Eryn’s podcast here 

Find Eryn on Instagram here 

Find more about Awana programs for kids here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Today’s guest, Josh Thurman, has a pretty remarkable bio—from being a dad to 6 to a Navy Seal, he’s one amazing guy. But one of the things he’s very proud of and we can all be very grateful for, is his involvement as a co-founder in a brand-new company called Angel Q. 

Angel Q exists to keep kids safer online by using AI as a buffer and guide while kids are online. Unlike other browsers that have no built in safety features, and that are constantly serving up more and more content for kids, Angel Q curates a child’s time online to not just keep them safe from problematic and dangerous content, but also to bring their time online to a natural end after a reasonable amount of time. 

This episode is full of a lot of really important information for parents to be aware of. From the predatory nature of the tech industry, the growing rates of depression for teen girls, and the ways AI can be used for good to keep our kids safe, even though that felt confusing to me at first. I came away from my first, and now my second, conversation with Josh feeling so incredibly impressed by what Angel Q is doing to protect my kids and yours.  

And listen to this! Angel Q has given my listeners the incredible opportunity to get an entire year subscription for free! Just use the code : FOUNDERSFREEYEAR 

This is a limited time offer so take advantage! I can’t stress enough how important this tool could be for your family. 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Learn more about Angel Q here 

Sign up for Angel Q here  (don’t forget to use the free code!) 

Learn more about Josh here 

Find Angel Q on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

It's time for another episode where it’s just me and you chatting about all kinds of things—from my favorite dish to bring to a potluck, the one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read to my kids and all sorts of things in between! 

This is a fun and insightful episode, albeit kind of random. And I can’t decide if my ability to talk about practically any subject at length is my superpower, or just one of my most annoying traits. If it’s the former, break it to my gently, OK? 

I hope you’ll get some helpful insight from this episode and be sure to check out the links below as I have included all the things mentioned in the episode. I know you’ll get a lot out of them. 

Last thing, please remember to order my new book, It’s Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn, if you haven’t already. Or if you have read it, to leave a rating and review on Amazon. You can do that right here and it is wildly helpful when you do! 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find Greta’s favorite stove top espresso maker here 

Find Greta’s favorite milk frother here 

Find copies of The Hiding place here (original version) here (young readers) and here (youngest readers)  

Find Instagram post about visiting Corrie ten Boom’s grave here 

Find my Home School 101 highlight here 

Find Greta: 

Find Greta’s books here, here and here 

Find Greta on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Home schooling mom of 10, podcaster, author of 2 beloved books and pickleball champion.  

One of the things I love about Abbie is that she is vocal about her how much she loves spending time with her teens. Like me, she really enjoys the teen years and has made it a bit of her personal mission to remind the mamas with littles that the goodness doesn’t stop the moment their kids hit puberty. 

So in this episode Abbie and I talk about all things having teens. We talk about parenting with expectant hope. That means determining that we’ll love our kids through their whole life, not just when they are cute and cuddly babies. We discuss ways to connect with our teens and how that starts by enjoying being with our kids when they are little and then continuing that as they grow. 

One of the things our kids will face as they grow up, and especially in the teen years is exposure to pornography. Abbie and I talk about how we can prepare our kids for growing up in a porn saturated world and also share with them about God’s good plan for sex. This part of our conversation was really helpful and honestly so powerful. I just know you’ll get a lot from it! And friends, if you are looking for more information on this topic, and still haven’t gotten my new book, It’s Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn, this is your sign to get the book! It’s time! Get your copy right here. 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find the Parenting and Pornography video here 

Where to find Abbie: 

Find Abbie’s books here and here 

Find Abbie’s website here 

Find Abbie’s podcast here 

Find Abbie on Instagram here 

Friends! Have you gotten my new book It’s Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn yet? If not, listen to today’s guest give a review of the book at the end of the podcast and be inspired to get your copy right here today! 

I met today’s guest, Aubrey McGowan, at a home school mom conference called Wild and Free! What a fun way to meet this guy. Aubrey and his wife Jen are tremendous musicians, and they have performed at many of the Wild and Free conferences I have been a part of. Aubrey is also creative in other ways: he’s a passionate communicator and a gifted writer. 

In today’s episode we are talking about Aubrey’s new book, Filter the Noise: how to Hear God’s Voice in a Culture of Chaos. 

We have so much noise in our life--the noise of the physical world, the noise of the digital world and the inner noise—those voices in our head that so often tell us things that aren’t true. 

Aubrey asks the question: what does Christ say to this?  

While the world tells us we always need more, Christ tells us He is enough. 

Aubrey shares with us the practice he outlines in the book that can help us filter the noise we don’t want or need in this life. But Aubrey reminds us: “The power is in Jesus, not in the practice” 

This practice is a way to point people to Jesus 

Friends, this is a longer than usual episode, but when Aubrey gets fired up he brings the wisdom and the fire and I don’t want to stop him! So sit down, grab a cup of coffee and be inspired by what Aubrey shares here. Let’s go! 

Resources from this episode: 

Quote from Gordon Hempton: "We have an epidemic of extinction of quiet places in our world." 

Pray Psalm 23 every morning 

Find the book God’s Smuggler here 

Quote by Corrie ten Boom “If the devil can’t make you sin he’ll make you busy” 

Where to find Aubrey: 

Find Aubrey’s book here 

Find Aubrey’s website here 

Find Aubrey on Instagram here 

Find Aubrey’s Family Field Guide ministry here 

Find Aubrey’s men’s ministry Whetstone here 

Listen to Aubrey and Jen’s music here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Oh friends, this episode is a dream come true! The incredible and dear, the epic, the lovely, the legend, the truly wonderful Sally Clarkson is on my show! 

I “met” Sally when I was 19 years old, through one of the books she wrote about homeschooling. I was babysitting a homeschooling family and found one of Sally’s books on their bookshelf. After the kids went to bed, I began to read and I’ve been the biggest Sally fan ever since. 

Unbelievably, Sally has become a real-life friend. And today she joined me on my podcast. It is just beyond what I could have imagined all those years ago. 

In this episode Sally shares that she is wild at heart! She likes to shake things up , have adventures and live outside the box. 

We talked about how God made us out of the box women and mothers and that He made our children that way too.  

And Sally reminds us that letting our children be out of the box is such a gift to them! 

We also talked about feeling alone in mothering kids who are different and finding the freedom to let our kids be themselves rather than worry about what other people think about us or them. Sally reminds us that life isn’t about being the perfect mom, but getting to know the perfect God and living in His perfect plan for your life. 

Sally is just amazing and you’ll love hearing from her in this episode.  

Find Sally: 

Find her book Different here 

Find her book Uniquely You here 

Find her book Well Lived here 

Find Sally’s website here 

Find Sally on Instagram here 

Find Sally’s podcast here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

I am so glad to introduce my friend Lori Beth Auldridge to you on the podcast today! Lori Beth is such an interesting person and I knew a lot of the interesting parts of her story already. But on the podcast today, I learned even more. We talked about everything from how Lori Beth collects heritage breed animals, heritage seeds from the incredible children’s artist Tasha Tudor, was a home schooler for 11 years before she ever home schooled her own kids, her gift for hospitality, and about her business that focuses on supporting mothers and elevating motherhood.  

You will walk away from this episode feeling excited and inspired about how important it is that we nurture our kids and their learning, that we nurture ourselves as mothers and also that we nurture each other in our motherhood journey. I know you’re going to love it! 

And since you do love this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on iTunes? Just a sentence or two about how The Greta Eskridge Podcast is meaningful to you will help other people find it and learn from it. You can also give it a quick 5 star rating and that helps too. Than you friends! 

Where to find Lori Beth: 

Find Lori Beth’s website here 

Find Lori Beth’s podcast here 

Find Lori Beth on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Friends, there is so much great information in this episode! I am thrilled to share it with you. Today I get to talk with Parker Hymas of Fight the New Drug. I didn’t think I could be a bigger fan of this organization but after this episode, I am!! 

They are not fighting porn in a timid and embarrassed way. 

They are bold and brave in their message. But also speak with compassion and true care for anyone caught in the web of porn consumption. What they really want is to inspire change by educating people about the harm porn does. This episode is extra helpful if you have older teens or young adutls. 

In this episode we talk about how porn harms everyone and no one is immune to it, that many teens and young adults turn to porn for their sex education and that no one has ever told them that porn is not real but also that it is harmful. Fight the New Drug is all about education so they remind us that the best thing we parents can do is talk to our kids about porn. 

And I know a book that will give you all the help you need for that! I wrote It’s Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn and you can purchase it right here. You don’t have to have those conversations alone. 

Where to find Fight the New Drug: 

Find their website here 

Find their info for parents here 

Get Fast Facts to share with your teens/young adults here 

Find out about the live events here 

Listen to their podcast here 

Watch their videos on You Tube here 

Find them on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org