Life Parenting Podcast

Mar 09 2025 12 ep. 44 mins 2

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Welcome to the Life Parenting podcast (hosted by Growing Families) where our desire is to help you, as parents create a life-giving home environment in which to guide, nurture, and train your children in a God honoring way.

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011 - No Room for Weeds: Nurturing a Healthy Lawn in Your Parenting

Mar 09 2025 36 mins

As a parent do you ever feel like you are doing more and more correcting, but seeing fewer results? Are you at the point in your thinking that nothing seems to be working, so why try at all? If you’ve ever tried to nurture a healthy lawn then you realize that to cut down on weeds, you need to give your lawn the nutrients it needs to become healthy. Healthy lawns prevent weeds fro

010 - Parenting in the Digital Age: Responsibility & Boundaries with Technology

Feb 23 2025 57 mins

The digital era we are living in has created all sorts of parenting challenges that previous generations could not have even imagined. But are they really new challenges? Or might they be something closer to home - the same basic parenting challenges but now with a digital “look”. If there is any character weakness flagged, it will not be because a digital device caused it; rat

009 - Stepping Stones to Success: Shaping Your Child's Future

Feb 09 2025 47 mins

Want to raise kids with Christ-like virtues like self-control and gentleness? It starts earlier than you think. This podcast explores the crucial stepping stones of effective parenting, revealing how simple activities like sitting, focusing, and concentrating lay the foundation for logic, discipline, and future success. Join us as we uncover the often-overlooked steps to achieving

008 - Parenting in God’s Kingdom: the Theology of the Family

Jan 26 2025 48 mins

God is love – a foundational truth. But how does this impact our parenting? Christian theology, an understanding of God's nature and purpose, guides us. Past generations often relied on 'because I said so' parenting due to a lack of theological framework. With traditional values fading, understanding God's love and purpose for families is crucial. The Ezzos pionee

007 - Wait for the second marshmallow. (Vision part 2)

Jan 13 2025 36 mins

Continuing the discussion of the importance of having vision as we raise our children and shooting at the right targets, we discuss the importance of delayed gratification and how to instill that value into our children. As our children gain the skill of being able to look beyond the “here and now” to the future, they gain a greater understanding of the power of a vision based

006 - Hit the right target. (Vision part 1)

Dec 29 2024 36 mins

As parents we desire to have “success” as we raise our children. So we choose some parenting targets, and “ready, aim, fire.” But are we even aiming at the right target? How do we know? And once we determine the right targets, how do we go about staying focused to shoot straight? Rich & Julie Young, hostsThe Growing Families Website // https://growingfamilies.life/Regis

005 - Addressing Fears in the Past, Present, & Future of Parenting

Dec 15 2024 49 mins

The Ezzos and Youngs talk a variety of subjects relating to parenting in the past, present, and future and acknowledge that, unfortunately, one thing has been constant in every generation of parents is fear. Are we doing a good job? Will my children like me? Will they turn out ok? Or am I ruining them? We can become easily confused and this confusion only fuels our fear which can p

004 - Ministry in Brazil, changing the home environment, & vision worldwide (an interview with Dinart Barradas)

Dec 01 2024 55 mins

Dinart Barradas, Growing Families Brazil Ministry Director, joins the podcast and shares how parenting is different in Brazil (it’s not), when we have regrets as parents and how to redeem them, and what it means to have vision for our family using intentionality, diligence, and humility. Dinart wants to prevent pain coming to parents’ hearts and Gary warns us of the dangers of

003 - What's in your atmosphere? (The Life-Giving Home Environment)

Nov 17 2024 45 mins

For most of us, the word home carries more than just casual memories of a time and place where we spent our childhood; it was the first society from which we learned about life itself. The home is where love is first defined by the care and attention we receive, and becomes the place where security is gained, lost, or possibly never obtained. The word home is so laden with signific

002 - A matter of life and death (Speaking Life)

Nov 03 2024 64 mins

The words echoing around our homes have profound influence on the emotional and relational health of our children, echoing either a message of life or death. Speaking Life flows from the virtuous character of Christ and communicates worth and potential, promoting beauty and encouragement to our children. The life message is one of the most compelling forces in the universe. The pat