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The loss of a child comes in many forms. There is hope and support for grieving mothers, and the community that surrounds her. Rachel shows us how to be helpful and compassionate with our loved ones.
 
BIO
Rachel Lewis is the founder of Brave Mamas, an online community offering support to
thousands of bereaved moms. Rachel is a well-known contributor to Still Standing
Magazine and Pregnancy After Loss Support. She’s the creator of Unexpecting: A 4-Week Grief Workshop for Pregnancy Loss for couples.
Her work and family have been featured by the Today Show, Upworthy, AdoptUSKids, and Babble. Rachel has experienced the loss of five pregnancies, as well as the unique grief of reunifying a foster son with his birth family. Learn more at thelewisnote.com.
 
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
 
Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss
Brave Mamas Facebook Group
How to Help a Loved One through Baby Loss
The Body Keeps the Score
 

Jonathan McKee gives parents practical tools on how to approach technology with wisdom and grace instead of constant correction.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Parenting Generation Screen: Guiding Your Kids to be Wise in a Digital World 
Teens Guide to Social Media 
Guy’s Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in their Pocket 
 
BIO
Jonathan McKee is the author of more than twenty-five books, including Teen’s Guide to Face-to-Face Connections in a Screen-to-Screen World; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon bestseller – The Guy’s Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for moms and dads on his website becomingscreenwise.com.
 
20+ years of experience with youth ministry and family research has taught him that parents need to connect with their kids just as much as they correct their kids— it’s the safe, loving conversations about screen use that will set kids up for a lifetime of good decisions and habits. 


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What the link between family schedules and life expectancy tells us about teaching kids to be resilient adults.
BIO
Dr. Rhonda Spencer-Hwang is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. Through her groundbreaking research, she has developed a program to help prepare families for whatever life throws their way—increasing resiliency, happiness, and likelihood of positive performances (from academics to athletics and beyond). She is a mom of three and lives in Loma Linda, California.
 
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
DrRhondaSpencer.com
 
Book: Releases August 3, 2021
Raising Resilient Kids: Principles for Bringing Up Healthy, Happy, Successful Children Who Can Overcome Obstacles and Thrive despite Adversity.
 
More about Hulda Crooks
 
Philippians 4:6 - Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Do you have what it takes to be a homeschool mom? Yes! We’re busting the myth that you have to do it all to be effective.
 
BIO
Katie M. Reid has been married to Adam for almost eighteen years, and is the mother of five loud children (ages threww to fifteen). Besides Jesus and her family, cut-to-the-chase conversations and musicals are a few of her favorite things. Katie encourages others to exchange try-hard striving for hope-filled freedom through her messages, articles, songs, and resources. She is a trained bible study facilitator and author of the book, Made Like Martha: Good News for the Woman Who Gets Things Done. 
 
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
www.katiemreid.com
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Episode 042 | Grace for the Woman Who Gets Things Done
 
Sacred Grounds, Sticky Floors by Jamie Amerine 
 
“All-Done” Calendar
 

How knowing your “why” is fuel for homeschooling and how to encourage characteristics of the heart that you can’t measure with a grade.
 
BIO
Wife of a hospital physician and mama of four boys, Monica Swanson lives on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. They grow tropical fruits on their land that overlooks the “7 Mile Miracle” spot of some of the best surfing beaches in the world. She homeschools all of the boys, and just launched the oldest off to college in California. Her book Boy Mom: What Your Son Needs Most From You is a widely-read and acclaimed book among Christian boy moms across the nation.
 
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
MonicaSwanson.com
Boy Mom Book
Character Training Course
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Today’s culture is defined by amorality, dishonesty, and discontentment. As a Christian parent, you want your children to reject these norms in favor of values like integrity, wisdom, and forgiveness. But how can you train them to do this when you’re still falling short yourself?
Author, speaker, and Moms in Prayer podcast host Lee Nienhuis offers guidance to every parent seeking to raise Jesus-following kids.
 
BIO
Lee is a farmer’s wife (turned camp coordinator), and midwestern mama. She is the host of the Moms in Prayer Podcast and author of Counter Cultural Parenting: Building Character in a World of Compromise.
 
QUOTES
“Home needs to be a place where it’s okay to fail and come back again. Home is our laboratory.”
“We’ve never lived in such a connected world. It can be really scary, but it can also be really pioneering.”
“The work of rebuilding our society starts in our own home.”
 
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Brave Moms Brave Kids
Countercultural Parenting
Moms in Prayer Podcast
Jesus Storybook Bible
Raising Heroes TShirt
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