We’ve been asking our kids the wrong question since kindergarten. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” confuses identity with performance, and Josh argues we’ve been setting them up for anxiety and false selves ever since.
This episode reframes the whole parenting mission around the theme of Jesus’s central message: the Kingdom of God. When kids understand their personal role in building for the kingdom of God, their identity stops depending on what they do, what they have, or what anyone thinks of them. It’s a parenting paradigm shift that gives our kids a purpose bigger than anything the world has to offer.
We also announce the launch of a brand new parenting platform for raising emotionally healthy and spiritually mature kids called Raising Future Legends.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Life updates
4:03 Identity and purpose for our kids
7:40 What did Jesus mean by the kingdom of God?
13:28 Who our children become and what it means for building for the kingdom of God
17:50 An exciting announcement about Raising Future Legends
24:07 An invitation into a new way of living and parenting
Show Notes:
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