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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Modern parenting experts are saying some pretty bizarre things.
Is it truly good for children to get a sense that they're not in charge?
Or does parental authority somehow limit their freedom of expression?
Is the chief aim of parenting to create a "safe" environment for our kids?
Should we force our kids to create their own version of good and evil?
We answer these questions and more on today's podcast.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
0:45 How does authority interact with children?
1:41 Dr. Becky Talks Authority
11:55 Gabor Mate on 3 Modes of Parenting
20:10 The Issue With Parenting As An American
24:27 The Collapse of Parenting
31:24 Feeling-Driven Parenting
34:21 Parenting Prosperity Gospel?
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Gabor Mate Reel: https://www.instagram.com/p/DES_PqEoYv9/
Dr. Leonard Sax on Andrew Klavan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6BFgkdIcy0
Adam Lane Smith Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrSuMeck9hI
Family Revision by Jeremy Pryor: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YHJ62F
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0:00.0 | And then the statement that she's making in this New York Times article, basically, like, you need to set your child free to determine for themselves what is right and what is wrong. Have we tried that before? Was there ever a time where God was saying, I want to tell you guys what right and wrong is and humanity said, no, like we would like to figure that out on our own. I don't know. |
0:21.2 | Maybe like the garden or... |
0:22.9 | Yeah, I remember that. |
0:23.9 | That's like, that's kind of how everything fell apart in the world. |
0:28.1 | It's like, it's at the root of all evil. |
0:31.4 | Oh, it's not funny, but if we don't laugh, what are we going to do? |
0:35.5 | Hi, welcome to the family team's podcast. |
0:39.8 | Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, |
0:45.5 | tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat |
0:51.0 | about all things family. Everybody, welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my wife April and with our friend |
0:57.1 | Justine Sorillo. Thank you, Justine, and April for jumping in here today. Hello? Yeah, |
1:03.1 | it's fun to be here. Yeah. So, yeah, we're going to dive into a topic that I think is kind of like |
1:09.4 | getting more, I think, understanding. There was like, |
1:13.6 | I feel like we went into a season where this was really confusing. And that is like, how exactly |
1:18.2 | does authority interact with children? Is that a good thing? Is it good for them to sense that |
1:24.0 | they're not in charge or does that really limit their freedom of expression? |
1:29.2 | And I think there's just been like kind of a wide range of thoughts about this. |
1:32.9 | There's sort of like a Christian version of this conversation. |
1:35.3 | There's sort of like a secular version of this conversation. |
1:37.3 | But there is a convergence happening, I would say. |
1:39.7 | I mean, I'm just finding more and more people saying very similar things. |
1:43.2 | And so I think it would be really helpful to like look at some of these clips and get y'all's take on this. |
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