Motherhood, Joy, and the Preschool Debate
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Family Teams Podcast (Motherhood Edition!), Jeremy and April are joined by Annalisa Barraza and Miranda Foust to discuss the countercultural idea of women actually enjoying motherhood. Then, the group reacts to a short clip from The Spillover podcast and discuss whether we should be sending our kids to preschool.
We hope you notice that, yes, our ideas are often counterintuitive, but it's because something is desperately wrong with the way our culture is doing family. Our goal is to have honest and challenging conversations so that you as a listener can consider things from a new, and hopefully Biblical and multigenerational light. It's not always easy to have these conversations, but it's so worth it if we're going to raise up families that glorify God.
On this episode, we talk about:
00:00 Intro
01:43 Celebrating Kyra's Birthday
03:56 Annalisa's Unexpected Response on Motherhood
06:54 The Struggle Against The Flesh as a Mother
14:26 Maintaining A Joyous Perspective in Motherhood When Things Are Hard
18:12 Encouraging Other Mothers
25:21 The Lifelong Joy of Motherhood
28:45 Should We Be Sending Our Kids To Preschool?
31:02 Debating the Role of Preschool
42:11 Bonus Clip: The Lies of Feminism
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Resources Mentioned:
You Are Because He Is by Annalisa Barraza
"How To Raise A Securely Attached Child." With Attachment Specialist Adam Lane Smith | The Spillover
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| 0:00.0 | And by the way, we are definitely waiting into more controversial waters. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm always trying to understand how to make, you know, our community really think deeply |
| 0:10.0 | and not just go about thinking about family the way the culture assumes. |
| 0:15.3 | And so I think people are surprised sometimes. |
| 0:17.6 | We have a counterintuitive take on things. |
| 0:22.0 | Please get used to that. |
| 0:25.6 | There's something desperately wrong with the way that our culture is doing family. |
| 0:33.3 | 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. |
| 0:39.0 | Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all |
| 0:43.5 | things family. |
| 0:46.7 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the family team's podcast, Motherhood Edition. We have today, |
| 0:53.1 | of course, my lovely wife, April, who is in a very unusual |
| 0:56.9 | spot. Are those audiobooks behind you, April? Where are you at? They are. Yes. I'm in the |
| 1:02.5 | audiobook section of the library. Okay. Well, that must be like the most archaic, like, |
| 1:09.2 | those like CDs or... |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, they are. |
| 1:13.2 | I remember I used to live in the audio section of the library. |
| 1:16.8 | That was like my favorite section. |
| 1:18.8 | I had the entire thing memorized, one of the places we lived, |
| 1:21.9 | because every time I walked, I was... |
| 1:23.8 | And then, of course, Audible came out and I never looked back. |
| 1:26.6 | Of course, there is Libby. |
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