139: The Parents’ Guide To Navigating Tough Conversations With Your Kids With Jimmy And Kristin Scroggins

April 5, 2021

Parenting isn’t for wimps, especially when it comes to navigating the crucial conversations that we must have with our kids. Jimmy and Kristin Scroggins have had plenty of crucial conversations in their lives—not only with their own children but with parents who are scared and seeking wisdom. In Episode 139, Jimmy and Kristin share the “conversation map” to work through any tough conversations you will have with your children.

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In This Episode, You’ll Hear About:

The 3 Circle conversation guide to help you walk through any difficult conversation with your child.
What God’s design for parenting is.
The importance of the “poker parenting” face.
Having a “long ball” vision of parenting.

Resources We Mention During This Episode:

Pick up a copy of Jimmy and Kristin’s book, Full Circle Parenting: A Guide For Crucial Conversations
For more information about Jimmy and Kristin, go to their website

Quotes and Tweets:

Parenting can be simultaneously fun, challenging, embarrassing, frustrating, joyful, and hilarious. Parenting is extremely rewarding but it most definitely is not for wimps. @jimmyscroggins
The 3 Circles is a conversation guide to help parents walk through the inevitable challenges, difficulties, and tense moments of life in a family. @jimmyscroggins
The 3 Circles gives you a plan to remind yourself and your kids that God has a design for their lives, Jesus died for their sin and brokenness, and God always creates a path towards recovery and restoration. @jimmyscroggins
We can train our kids to behave and still miss the heart issues. Biblical parenting means going after the heart. We want to teach kids to think about God and pursue his design for their lives. @jimmyscroggins
Parenting depends on wisdom, not formulas.@jimmyscroggins
It’s hard not to put our hope in the success of our children. So much of who we are is wrapped up in who they are. @jimmyscroggins
Remember the goal is heart transformation, not behavior modification. God has called us to be the ones who train our kids to know and follow him. This is why it’s so important for us to remind ourselves what God’s design for parenting is. @jimmyscroggins
We have to show our kids how God actually made them, and that he made them on purpose, for a purpose. @jimmyscroggins
Wise parents will teach their children why and how to seek forgiveness. If we can teach our kids to let go of bitterness and pursue restoration, we will give them a priceless gift. @jimmyscroggins
If the sibling dynamic is bad, brothers and sisters highlight one another’s weaknesses and cover one another’s strengths. But in healthy friendships, you do the opposite. Love demands that we highlight strengths and cover weaknesses. @jimmyscroggins

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Meet Jimmy & Kristin Scroggins:

Jimmy and Kristin Scroggins have been married for 26 years and have eight children: James (Reilly), Daniel (Mary-Madison), Jeremiah, Isaac, Stephen, Anna Kate, Mary Claire, and Caleb. They have served at Family Church since Jimmy became the lead pastor in July 2008. Under Jimmy’s leadership, Family Church has grown to a network of thirteen neighborhood churches in South Florida. The Scroggins family is passionate about Family Church’s mission to build families by helping them discover and pursue God’s design.