With five kids of my own and countless conversations with parents everywhere, two things have become clear to me as a dad seeking to raise kids in a digitally-connected, porn-saturated culture: First, no one has a perfect road map or a 3-step method, for parenting in our day. Not even the Bible—as absolutely central and essential as it is—offers a one-size fit all list of instructions for how to...
Podcast: The Dangers of Idolizing Our Kids.
Do you expect something out of your kids that they shouldn’t or even can’t give you? We try all kinds of things at the expense of our children to get what we need. Is your image or value related to how your kids behave? Join Josh and Kit as they unravel what love looks like in giving our children the freedom to be who they are, and taking them down from the pedestal we have put them...
How to Setup Screen Time for Your Kids
Kids these days are growing up as digital natives, and that presents parents with a new world to lean into. We don’t understand it and it feels new and foreign to us all. Using the line “I used to be your age, I know what you are going through” is no longer a truth we can parent by. Below we will teach you How to Setup Screen Time for Your Kids. Times are changing and so should...
Five Tips for Parenting in a Digital Age
When I was a kid, we imagined life in the 21st century would include huge upgrades in technology like space travel, jet packs, laser guns, and robot servants. We imagined a coming space age, but the 21st century our kids are actually growing up in isn’t so much a space age, it’s a digital age. Life didn’t so much move to the stars as it did to our screens. Don’t get me wrong, the digital age is...
Giving More Than You Are
Comedian Jim Gaffigan describes what it’s like to have four children: “Imagine you’re drowning…and then someone hands you a baby.” When my wife and I first heard this, we had just had our fourth and both of us almost jumped out of our seats, exclaiming “Yes! That’s exactly how it feels!” We had already been giving so much, working so hard to keep our heads above water. How could we take care of...
A Parent’s Road
As I drove away from dropping my daughter at school this morning, worry came whispering. (My daughter’s doing fine, but worry never seems to mind that.) It reminded me of experiences I had in high school. It reminded me of stories I hear today at Regeneration. I confessed, “Father, I wish she were growing up in a world where the majority of kids around her believed sex is sacred.” I breathed...