Episode 6: Learning about Consequences Without Punishments
Show Notes Can You Discipline Your Child Without Using Punishments?10 Ways to Guide Children Without Punishment
Worship by Example
I’ll never forget the evening I was dressing our son, when he proved to me how attentive he is. We had seldom spent time tutoring our toddler to associate his body parts with words. Then one day, just for fun, I asked him where his ears were. He correctly identified …
Kingdom Parenting is Gentle Parenting
I was reading in my morning devotional, and spent some time in a chapter which I seldom read. These words contain a beautiful promise and I thought I would share. ”Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of …
Episode 5: The Rod in its Cultural Context with Samuel Martin
Show Notes Thy Rod and Thy Staff, They Comfort Me (Samuel Martin)Sketches of Jewish Social Life (Alfred Edersheim)Proverbs for Parenting Misapplied (Dr. Don Owsley)
Timothy and the Gentleness of Paul
Few relationships in the Bible are so tender and fascinating as that of the Apostle Paul and his student, Timothy. In the epistles to Timothy, Paul considers Timothy to be his spiritual son, to whom he bears a debt of service, love, and training. He loves Timothy dearly, as his …
Episode 4: Obedience is Not the Goal
Show Notes Obedience is Not the Goal (L.R. Knost)I Don’t Want Obedient Children (Happiness is Here)Do You Want to Raise an Obedient Child? (Aha Parenting)First Time Obedience: How’s That Working For You? (Sally Clarkson)Should We Demand Immediate Obedience? (Connected Families)Colossians 3:20-21- Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases …
Episode 3: The Differences Between Gentle and Permissive Parenting
Show Notes Respectful Parenting is NOT Passive Parenting Setting Limits is an Important Part of Life Janet Lansbury on Boundaries How to Set Effective Limits with Your Child Differences in Traditional, Permissive, and Positive Parenting The Authoritative Parenting Style Gentle Parenting FAQ Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say …
Episode 2: The Differences Between Gentle and Punitive Parenting
SHOW NOTES The focal point of your discipline and correction must be your children seeing their utter inability to do the things which God requires unless they know the help and strength of God. Your correction must hold the standard of righteousness as high as God holds it… the alternative …
It All Comes Back to the Gospel
One of the toughest realities as a parent, is our inevitable failure on the part of our child. Eventually, in one way or the other, we will let our kids down emotionally, physically, and spiritually. It will more than likely happen every day for the entirety of their childhood. How …
Episode 1: So, What is Gentle Parenting?
SHOW NOTES Your Child is Your Neighbor (Jen Wilkin) https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/your-child-is-your-neighbor/ Thy Rod and Thy Staff, They Comfort Me (Samuel Martin) http://www.biblechild.com/assets/thy-rod-and-thy-staff-they-comfort-me-mar-2013.pdf When Our Children Disagree… (Abby Alam) http://tendinglambs.com/2019/02/11/when-our-children-disagree/ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. …