What makes a home feel like home? Not just a place where everyone lives, eats, sleeps, and keeps the calendar moving—but a place where your spouse and your kids feel safe, known, loved, and at peace? This week, Lyndsay sits down with Rob and Joanna Teigen of Growing Home Together for an incredibly practical, honest conversation about marriage, parenting, and caring for the soul of your family. Rob and Joanna share wisdom from more than three decades of marriage and raising five children, including what they’ve learned about fighting their way back to connection when marriage starts feeling more like a business partnership, navigating differences without resentment, having hard conversations well, apologizing specifically, and knowing when it’s time to invite outside support into your marriage. They also talk about the kind of home we’re creating for our children. How do we build a family culture rooted in unconditional love rather than performance? How do we make room for laughter, fun, conversation, prayer, and connection in the middle of very full lives? And how do we create a home our children will still want to come back to when they’re grown? This conversation is full of simple, doable encouragement—put the date on the calendar, ask a better question, give the longer hug, play the game, eat ice cream before dinner, say the specific apology, put down the phone, pray for your people, and keep choosing each other. Because a peaceful home isn’t a perfect home. It’s a home where we lead with love, believe the best in one another, and let God shape the way we love the people He has entrusted to us. CONNECT WITH ROB + JOANNA Growing Home Together Website Shop Rob + Joanna’s Books & Family Resources Growing Home Together Podcast Instagram — @growinghometogether Facebook — Growing Home Together YouTube — Growing Home Together RESOURCES FROM ROB + JOANNA MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 📖 88 Great Daddy-Daughter DatesThe book that helped launch Rob and Joanna’s writing journey, filled with simple ways for dads and daughters to spend meaningful one-on-one time together. 88 Great Daddy-Daughter Dates 💬 Conversation Starters for CouplesRob and Joanna talked about using simple questions to break out of “business partner mode” and create deeper, more intentional conversations. 88 Great Conversation Starters for Husbands and Wives 🙏 Prayer Resources for ParentsLooking for help praying specifically and intentionally for your kids? Rob and Joanna have created prayer resources for parents of both sons and daughters. Powerful Prayers for Your Son + Daughter 🙏 Free 30-Day Prayer JourneyReceive short, Scripture-rooted prayers for marriage, parenting, stress, forgiveness, fear, and everyday family life. Join the Free 30-Day Prayer Journey 😂 Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for KidsRob is also the author behind the hugely popular clean-joke series for kids mentioned at the beginning of the episode. Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids OTHER RESOURCES + PEOPLE MENTIONED ❤️ The 5 Love Languages — Dr. Gary ChapmanGary Chapman and The 5 Love Languages came up during the conversation about learning how to communicate, encourage, and care for your spouse well. The Official 5 Love Languages Website 💍 Mark + Jill SavageRob and Joanna referenced marriage teachers Mark and Jill Savage while talking about the power of slowing down and giving your spouse your full attention—even through something as simple as a real, lingering hug. Marriage Resources from Mark + Jill Savage ABOUT GROWING HOME TOGETHER Growing Home Together exists to help families grow closer to God and to one another through practical encouragement for marriage, parenting, prayer, faith, connection, and family life. If this conversation encouraged you, send it to a friend, share it with your spouse, and take one small step this week toward caring for the soul of your family.
