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Good day, good day, I am Aaron Michael Brewster, your host and friend. This month marks our eighth year podcasting, and this is our 560th show.
I and TeamTLP are consumed by the mission of glorifying God in your home by equipping you to worship Him with your parenting. If you are new to the show, I hope you will subscribe and share, but—more than that—I hope you will learn and grow right along with me as we consider the biblical truths that need to be impacting our lives. So far this season, we’ve been doing some overview episodes where’s we’ve been quickly discussing the big pictures concerning learning and education and thinking and feeling. We’ve talked about discipleship and the consequences of discipling our kids the wrong way. But the key thing we’ve been doing is overviewing these concepts in light of the hundreds of episodes’ worth of content we’ve created over the past eight years. So, if you’re new, I hope you’ll listen to those episodes but then follow the bread crumbs as I point you to other stand alone episodes and series that will go beyond the overview and really consider the nitty-gritty details we see in Scripture. Topic
But for Season 30 we’re going to go back to our previous format of taking a little more time with each topic and—more importantly—discussing far more Scripture than we have been of late.
I hope that excites you. I hope you don’t listen to this podcast because I’m a family counselor. I hope you don’t listen to this podcast because I share what sounds like good opinions. I hope you’re here to learn from the Bible, because that’s why I’m here. My parenting would be a dumpster fire if I weren’t rooting it in the Bible. And that doesn’t mean that I’m simply using the Bible like a baseball bat on my kids or lobbing verses at them. I want to do the right things in the right ways for the right reasons in order to please the Lord. Yes, that will affect the content of my parenting, but it will dictate so much more than just the content. So, I’m looking forward to discussing two very important topics over the course of Season 30, and they’re each going to be about 6-7 episodes long. I want to take the time to build a biblical case for how we need to approach these realities in our homes. So, the first series we’re going to do is called . . . 1. Parenting Your Kids to Adulthood. Now, please understand that this series is going to be absolutely necessary and extremely foundational regardless of the age of your kids. In fact, I’m going to suggest that the sooner you start working through this material the better. The younger your kids are, the better suited they will be to thrive into their adult years. My point is, don’t wait to listen to a series like this until your kids are “older” lest you miss out on some important building blocks that will help your “older” kids be more successful if you lay them early. Almost 5 years ago I talked about my son’s Adulthood Ceremony, and about 2 years ago I told you about my daughter’s Adulthood Ceremony. But I hadn’t spoken much about the events leading up that ceremony or make any significant application to you and your home. Since then a number of you have asked me to provide more information about this process, the whys and hows of what we did, and the biblical principles and commands that influenced our decisions. It’s my desire to talk about the very important mindset you need to have in order to parent your kids to godly adulthood. Then we’re going to define our terms by categorically identifying what it means to be a Christ-honoring adult. From there we’re going to move into the expectations. We’ve talked a lot about expectations recently with our Expectational Education series that started off Season 29, and we’re going to talk a lot more about expectations because they are so foundational to our lives and godliness, and though I’ve talked a lot about them, I haven’t really used that word as often as I should. Anyway, we’re going to identify the necessary and potential expectations we need to parent our kids to adulthood. Then we’re going to talk about the process—the whats, the hows, and the whys—of parenting your kids to adulthood. Then I plan to discuss the absolute importance of onboarding your family’s community into the process. I’ll give you a framework from which to build your own Adulthood Ceremony for your kids, and then we’re going to end that series talking about how to transition your kids from childhood to adulthood. That’s our first series of Season 30. Our second series will be . . . 2. Parenting Sorrowing Children In a couple weeks I’ll be teaching a workshop at the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors annual conference called Counseling Sorrowing Children. These two concepts are very closely related, and I want to take a number of episodes to go into deeper detail on the subject. If you have access to the Doctrine of Emotions on the Evermind App, then you will be able to listen to the workshop I’m going to do for ACBC. You’ll also get access to the notes as well as my previous workshops and teaching on the topic of emotion. In case you didn’t know, the Doctrine of Emotion resource in the Evermind App includes some key elements of the Suffering Well online course also available on the Evermind App. Both of those resources are priceless, and the two together will give you the most well-rounded understanding of emotions, as well as how to interpret and handle them in yourself and your kids. But this particular series will be available on Truth.Love.Parent. for a limited time before it’s moved exclusively to the Evermind App, so be sure to consume it as it comes out. We’re going to start that series talking about the importance of identifying the cause of the sorrow. Too many dads and moms whip out the exact same tools and tactics the moment they see tears without identifying why the tears are there. But identifying the source of the sorrow is absolutely integral to being able to help your kids navigate it correctly. So, not only will we talk about why it’s important to identify the actual source—as differentiated from the perceived source—but we’ll also talk about how you can do that. But recognizing the root of sadness isn’t the only detail necessary. We also have to identify the flavor of sorrow. What kind of sorrow are our kids experiencing. The type of sorrow also will require different parenting techniques and truths. So, the next 5 episodes are going to work through each of the Bible’s 5 different sorrows. We’ll learn what they are and how to parent our kids through each. By the way, as you can imagine, the truths we’re going to discuss should also help you with understanding your sorrow and navigating it to God’s honor and glory. Conclusion
So, that is what you have to look forward to for Season 30 of the Truth.Love.Parent. podcast.
I hope you’ll subscribe and join us each week and share the episodes with your friends. In fact, you can start by sharing this episode so your friends can join you in learning how to parent their children to adulthood and guiding their kids through sorrow. And if you need personalized assistance with your parenting, please email us at [email protected] or leave a voicemail at (828) 423-0894. We would love to open God’s Word to help you become the biblical parent God called and created you to be. So, I’ll see you next time as we discuss the mindset you’ll need to parent your children to adulthood.
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