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The Family Teams Podcast

Are Our Kids "Good Inside"? Christian Moms React To Dr. Becky Kennedy's Parenting Advice

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy is joined by his wife April, Kristin Netting, and Jess Gonyea to talk motherhood and parenting advice, specifically in reaction to some of the ultra-popular mainstream parenting influencers giving their opinions out there.

Can the advice of parenting "experts" like Dr. Becky Kennedy be reconciled with a Biblical worldview? Is it helpful? How do we know what parts are helpful and which are harmful?

On this episode, we talk about:

0:49 Processing Dr. Becky's parenting advice through a Biblical lens

2:18 The difference between making a request and setting a boundary

11:00 Women react to "turning up the volume" when there's an issue in the family and both spouses need to get on board

17:41 The framework issue between modern, Western marriages and Family Teams

21:13 Parenting from the belief that your child is innately good

36:57 Are our kids destined for shame and failure if we don't believe they're "good inside"?

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Resources Mentioned:

Dr. Becky Kennedy on The Knowledge Project Podcast

Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor

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0:00.0

Diving into secular descriptions of parenting and then trying to just tease apart good tactics

0:06.6

and bad theology is really an important exercise. I don't expect a secular psychologist to have

0:11.6

biblical theology, but I think this is really confusing for Christians when they're consuming

0:15.6

content like this. How do we discern like, wow, those tactics really work that they sound really

0:20.1

good, but all of a sudden you're building your entire life on bad theology.

0:23.6

Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and

0:38.5

Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family. Hey, everybody. Welcome

0:44.3

back to the Family Team's podcast. We're going to do another episode around motherhood. And so I have,

0:51.2

I love, of course, looking around the internet for various influencers and trying to understand how we have family teams can interact with a lot of the popular content around parenting in general.

1:04.7

So there is Dr. Becky Kennedy. She might be one of the most popular parenting experts right now that I see on

1:11.9

YouTube. And that is through a scientific study of who tends to pop up on my feed more frequently

1:17.4

than others, since she's up there a lot. I think she gave really famous TED Talk back of the day.

1:21.6

So she says things very, like very clearly. She has some really interesting advice. And a lot of it,

1:27.2

I found like, wow, that's,

1:28.5

I can see how I got to be super helpful. But it is important to kind of like process these

1:33.0

things through a biblical lens. That's kind of what I want to do in this video. So I am joined

1:39.4

by my partner in crime, my wife, April. She's, she's zooming in all the way from the other side of

1:46.8

the second floor. And then we've got Kristen Netting from the very, very center of Ohio. And then

1:53.9

Jess Gagne, who I think Minnesota. Yeah? Yes. Awesome. Thank you all for for joining us. So we're going to, I'm going to play a couple

2:02.9

videos here. We're going to look at what she's recommending. So there's been a lot of,

2:09.5

of course, great content she's put out in a lot of places. And one of the things she says in

2:14.3

this, I found really interesting, just really interesting framing. So this first video is about the difference between making a request and setting a boundary.

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