How To Raise Kids Who Want To Become Parents

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The decision to have kids - or, more commonly these days, to NOT have kids - isn't just some random decision your kids make.

It comes after years of seeing how you treat fatherhood and motherhood. Whether you value it. Whether you've taught them the importance of their gender and how God intentionally created them that gender, and that He loves certain things about that gender.

If you value family, having kids, and obeying God, then you need to actually train your kids to WANT to become parents.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:23 Raising Kids Who Want to Become Parents

3:05 ANNOUNCEMENT: Family Inc Opening Again!

6:40 Success Stories from Family Inc.

9:37 Teach Your Kids To Want Kids

12:13 Fertility Crisis and Cultural Influences

22:28 The Risk of Hyper Individualism

29:56 Idea Viruses Attacking Our Children's Desire To Be Parents

31:35 Creating A Pro-Feminine Culture

44:46 Modern Fear of Correcting Children

50:01 Modeling Thriving Parenthood

Resources Mentioned:

Family Inc: https://courses.familyteams.com/familyinc

Discipleship Program: https://1kh.org/

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0:00.0	this is a very countercultural thing to do, to raise your kids to want to be parents. We kind of
0:05.8	tend to raise our kids today with this idea that, no, you want them to be hyper individualistic
0:10.1	and like fiercely independent. And therefore, if they choose to not have kids or, you know,
0:15.1	whatever, that's totally, you know, all those paths are equally legitimate. I have a problem with
0:19.8	that biblically.
0:22.2	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast.
0:24.6	Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing
0:30.0	you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.
0:33.5	Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family.
0:39.4	Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my lovely wife, April. The spring is
0:43.8	springing. How you doing today, April? Good. It's my month now. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thank you.
0:51.0	Time to confuse people all over the place. That's right.
0:55.1	I confuse people this time of the year.
0:57.7	Yeah, because they always say April. You don't know what they're talking about year or the month.
1:01.5	Right.
1:02.3	Yeah. Yep. That's one of the costs you have to pay when your name is named after something.
1:09.0	Yep.
1:09.6	As common as the month. But this is your month.
1:12.5	Do you look forward to this time, month?
1:14.5	How do you feel about this month every year?
1:17.1	I love it.
1:18.0	I love the spring.
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