Latest Parentingforward Podcast Episodes
059: Every Kid is a Revolutionary
Parenting Forward - January 20, 2020 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsToday I tackle some of the objections parents may have when we talk about raising kids to be revolutionaries. It all feels like a little much, we want our kids to be healthy and happy and kind, that’s enough, right? Do we really need them to be activists and revolutionaries? Aren’t our kids busy...
058: Talking Politics with Your Kids - Pantsuit Politics
Parenting Forward - January 06, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsYou know them as Sarah and Beth from Pantsuit Politics, a podcast hosting grace filled political conversations. I have them on the show today to engage more deeply with parenting. How do we talk about politics with our kids? How can we manage family members who have polarizing political opinions...
057: Raising Kids with Healthy Body Image
Parenting Forward - December 16, 2019 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsHonored to have Hillary McBride join Parenting Forward today to talk about raising daughters with healthy body image, cultivating critical thinking and media literacy, embodied spirituality, and how fathers can contribute to developing healthy body image for your girls. Hillary is whip smart, ki...
056: How to Parent Through Climate Anxiety
Parenting Forward - December 02, 2019 12:44 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI talk with Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics from Union Theological Seminary about climate justice, spirituality, and how to parent our children through climate anxiety. She talks beautifully about how the climate justice moment is clarifying our interconnectedness and how t...
055: The Room Nobody Wants to be in - Grief
Parenting Forward - November 18, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsTraci Loux is a mother of 7 children, one of whom died just before he turned 4 years old. She shares the story of this traumatic and tragic loss, how it impacted her family, as well as her faith. Our conversations about grief and parenting are never easy, but yet are honestly some of my favorite...
054: Child-Inclusive Intergenerational Worship
Parenting Forward - November 04, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsWorship and liturgy should be accessible to children and I’m so thankful Rebecca Stevens Walter is doing the work of creating intergenerational liturgies and educating churches to lead the world in child liberation. In this episode, you’ll hear an example of what intergenerational worship looks ...
053: 4 Year Old asks, “Is God Real?”
Parenting Forward - October 21, 2019 10:33 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsToday on the show I answer a question by one of you, a member of the Parenting Forward community. I get questions from you all on social media, or in my inbox, and some of them are such good questions that I want to share my response with a broader audience. Today, Doubting Mom asks how to respo...
052: Trauma Proofing our Kids with Brian Peck
Parenting Forward - October 07, 2019 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI feel like releasing this episode for free is cheapening the value that’s packed in here. One of my favorite episodes that helps PARENT FORWARD. Therapist Brian Peck explains what the difference is between abuse and trauma, how we can trauma proof our children, how to give our children language...
051: Unraptured with Zack Hunt
Parenting Forward - September 23, 2019 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsZack Hunt is the author of Unraptured: How End Times Theology Gets It Wrong, and in this episode we talk about growing up as evangelical teens in that subculture where rapture theology took the form of books like Left Behind and all the shenanigans that came from bubble. Of course, we also talk ...
050: Creating Brave Spaces with Colby Martin
Parenting Forward - September 09, 2019 13:25 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThis show is admittedly less about parenting and more about creating community. I am wanting to expand on some of our conversations because I find that many of you struggle with finding authentic community which impacts your parenting and family life. I invited Colby, who started a progressive c...
049: Train Up Your Child in Their Own Way
Parenting Forward - August 26, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIn this episode we get to discuss progressive parenting backed by research from child psychology. Ellen, with a child psychology background and Molly, as a progressive faith minister, show us how science and faith can support us in seeking the answers to parenting like, “How do we raise empath...
048: The Trauma of an Evangelical Upbringing with Jamie Lee Finch
Parenting Forward - August 12, 2019 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsJamie Lee Finch is a body and relationship coach and the author of You Are Your Own. She speaks articulately and precisely about the trauma of evangelical, authoritarian environments arising out of her own painful experiences. We have an insightful conversation on how trauma manifests in our bod...
047: Simplicity Parenting with Kim John Payne
Parenting Forward - July 29, 2019 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsWith the Parenting Forward Conference coming up in two months, I answer some FAQs as well as play an extended clip from the actual conference to give you a taste of what it will be like. My guest is Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, a book that was hugely influential in my own pare...
046: Grieving RHE, Fox News & Empty Nesting with Carol Howard Merritt
Parenting Forward - July 15, 2019 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI have recently returned from a month long travel in the United States, so while I’m catching up with work, I invited my friend, Carol Howard Merritt, to join me in a more casual, shoot-the- breeze conversation about my time back in the States, specifically attending Rachel Held Evans’ funeral, ...
045: The Bible, feminism, and liberation for children
Parenting Forward - July 02, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI am traveling in the U.S. for the month of June and doing one event in Denver, Colorado for my book launch. Because many of you likely could not join me in Denver, I recorded the talk I gave at the event. It’s about the Bible, feminism, and liberation for children--light topics! Hope you enjoy....
044: How the Enneagram Helps Us Parent
Parenting Forward - June 17, 2019 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsHannah Paasch is the author of Millenneagram, a witty, hilarious, and also incredibly incisive book on how to access our truest self using the tool of the Enneagram. She and I chat about her own upbringing, whether we should type our children, and how parents can use the Enneagram to become a be...
043: Conservative Christian Parenting Clash with Mainstream Parenting Research
Parenting Forward - June 03, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsDr. Joseph Lee is a mental health professional practicing in California. A while back we had a casual conversation in which he mentioned that conservative Christian parenting is often in opposition with mainstream mental health research. I latched on to that statement and asked him to come on to...
042: Art and Parenting at Intersectional Identities
Parenting Forward - May 20, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsEvery child is creative. But so often we drive creativity out of children, whether it’s religious fundamentalism, market forces, or the way institutional schooling is structured, we don’t give children permission to be who they are and let them create accordingly. Adrienne Nieves, community abst...
041: Sparkles and Sequins for Boys
Parenting Forward - May 06, 2019 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI talk to Rebecca and Eva, the founders of Boy Wonder, a campaign to create clothing for boys that feature unicorns, rainbows, sparkles and sequins. The mission is to expand the palette of expression for boys so that all children can live out loud who they authentically are inside. Rebecca an...
040: Short Term Missions Trips - Corey Pigg
Parenting Forward - April 22, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsMy conversation partner today is Corey Pigg, the creator of the podcast, Failed Missionary, and I invited him to join me in tackling the subject of Short Term Missions, as we are coming up on STM season. In full disclosure, Corey and I are actual friends, so our conversation flowed easily into s...
039: Clarity is Reasonable - George Mekhail
Parenting Forward - April 08, 2019 11:47 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsClarity is reasonable. Ambiguity is harmful. I love the mission of Church Clarity to raise the standards of clarity for churches to present their policies clearly on their websites so that those who choose to participate in these communities are not harmed by bait-and-switch ambiguity. Here’s my...
038: Social Justice Cram School for Kids - Kristina Wong
Parenting Forward - March 25, 2019 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsKristina Wong is a performance artist who has created a youtube series called Radical Cram School, a show about social justice, revolution, and how to be powerful in the body that you have. The class features Asian girls to center and empower their voices and help them understand the world they ...
037: My Exvangelical Testimony
Parenting Forward - March 11, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsIn parenting our children forward in faith, it is a good and beautiful exercise to share our faith stories with them. However, parents often struggle, especially those who have experienced spiritual trauma, in knowing how to tell our stories without passing on faith baggage. Today, I tell my ...
036: Homophobia in Faith Spaces with Trey Pearson & Susan Cottrell
Parenting Forward - February 25, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsOne of the harsh realities of parenting is that in order to teach our children about love, sometimes we have to tell them about hate. This is the truth in confronting homophobia in the world. I have on my show today, Susan Cottrell, author and speaker who works with parents of faith who are rais...
#ExposeChristianSchools - Chris Stroop
Parenting Forward - February 18, 2019 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsChris Stroop and I connect online because we are both #EXvangelicals, which is a term coined by our mutual friend, Blake Chastain, who has a podcast by the same name. It means that evangelicalism is both a shaping influence of our lives and a system we have rejected. Chris has an academic backgr...
The Progressive Asian American Parent - Liz Lin
Parenting Forward - February 11, 2019 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsLiz Lin is a writer and co-founder of the Facebook group Progressive Asian American Christians. We took the opportunity to geek out about facebook groups and what it’s like to admin for fairly large groups and foster online community in this way. Liz tells me her faith shifting stories, what kin...
MAGA Teens and Dismantling White Supremacy with our Kids
Parenting Forward - January 28, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsThis episode is in response to the MAGA teens from Covington Catholic High School interacting disrespectfully to an Indigenous elder. This story prompts a conversation about white supremacy, media, children/teens/minors, so this episode is dedicated to unpacking all those layers. I give my opini...
Raising Transgender Children - Laurie Frankel
Parenting Forward - January 14, 2019 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsAt the end of the year, lots of people love posting round-ups of their favorite books. I was lazy and didn’t do a round up even though I read lots of good books, but IF I WERE to have done one for 2018, at the tippy top of the list would for sure be a novel titled, This is How it Always Is, by L...
Progressive Children’s Book List -Ashia Ray
Parenting Forward - December 31, 2018 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsI’ve long admired the work done by Ashia Ray in her book curating website called Books For Littles. Her list of children’s books that help children understand privilege is TOTAL FIRE: http://www.booksforlittles.com/silence-is-violence/ She opens up about her own story and why she started ...
Breaking Free from Purity Culture - Linda Kay Klein
Parenting Forward - December 24, 2018 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsLinda Kay Klein, author of PURE, and I talk all things purity culture in evangelicalism. We define what purity culture is, how deeply it is embedded in both the culture and our psyche as young women growing up in it. Linda shares the science behind why it takes a long time for many of us to brea...
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