Giving Kids Permission for Joy [Cultivating Spiritual Growth in Your Home 4 of 5]
Description
Parenting struggles are real. Screentime. Discipline. Anxiety.
But what if we’re focused on the wrong things?
Instead of trying to fix and manage the problems, what if we lived out the solution?
What if the environment we cultivate is the very thing our children need?
Welcome to episode 4 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home.
In this episode, Josh talks about their current parenting journey, the two competing worldviews that influence how kids experience joy, and how we can give our kids permission to experience joy!
Here are some highlights:
How two competing worldviews influence the amount of joy in our homeWhy we need permission to experience joyWhy resourcefulness is a cheat code for helping kids live joyful livesThe one way to step into joy this week as a family, no matter how difficult the season you find yourself in right nowThis series comes with a pdf workbook / discussion guide to go along with all five episodes (found in show notes below). You can use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.
Show Notes:
Interested in the most joyful men's discipleship coaching journey?! Join the interest list! https://www.famousathome.com/mensinterestform
Download the free workbook / discussion guide for the Summer Series. https://www.famousathome.com/summerseriessignup
Focus on the Family Broadcast: Click here to listen to Encouraging Your Kids to Discuss Their Feelings
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/episodes/broadcast/encouraging-your-kids-to-discuss-their-feelings/
Listen to Jamie Winship talk about abundance versus scarcity worldviews.
Click here.
https://youtu.be/2s3KWZFCH0A?si=YNR6bAF7ZW8xsZq_
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. Click here.
https://amzn.to/3vWdgie
Time Stamps:
1:04 Introduction
3:30 Coming out of survival seasons of parenting
6:30 Why “becoming” is a better than “parenting” for how our kids turn out
8:42 How kids experience joy
11:15 How the scarcity and abundance mindset influences joy
16:34 How the fruit of joy is cultivated in our lives
23:00 Giving our kids permission to experience joy
23:55 Resourcefulness as a cheat code for joy
26:55 Screen time and joy
28:00 Discipling our kids’ to find their strengths and gifts
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