141:The Parenting Secret That Changes Everything with Dave and Ann Wilson

What is the purpose behind your parenting? What are you aiming for? In Episode 141, we interview Dave and Ann Wilson about the parenting secret that changes everything. Dave and Ann share their hard-earned but easy-to-apply principles that ensure a strong parent-to-child relationship and a strong foundation for your child in every stage of their lives. Get ready to laugh until your belly hurts as they share their parenting wins, mistakes, and the lessons they have learned raising three (now grown) sons as imperfect parents.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear About:

• The parenting secret that changes everything.
• The importance of knowing what you are aiming for when raising your kids.
• Practical advice for every stage of parenting:
  • Walking through the valley of the shadow: Discipline stage (ages one to five)
  • The minivan days: Training stage (ages five to 12)
  • On target with teens: Coaching stage (ages 12 to 18)
• A special word for parents who are feeling lost or hopeless in their parenting journey during Covid.

Resources Mentioned IN This EPisode:

• Grab a copy of Dave and Ann’s newest book, No Perfect Parents: Ditch Expectations, Embrace Reality And Discover The One Secret That Will Change Your Parenting
• Dave and Ann also wrote a marriage book called Vertical Marriage: The One Secret That Will Change Your Marriage
• Listen to our previous episode about marriage with Dave and Ann, I Think I’ve Married The Wrong Person

Quotes and Tweets:

• They [your children] are watching both the good and the bad in your lives—and they need to see both because real life has both. They don’t need perfect role models; they need real ones. @daveannwilson
• We all tend to pick up our family’s legacy unless we intentionally allow our vertical relationship with God to intersect and alter our horizontal stories and patterns. We must see our legacies for what they are before we can even dream of seeing them change for the better. @daveannwilson
• In raising your children, what are you shooting for? What’s your target…your bull’s-eye? We must have a target to aim at, or we will just fire aimlessly. @daveannwilson
• When it comes to raising our kids, it’s very important to know what we are aiming for. @daveannwilson
• It is not the church’s job or the school’s job to train our kids. It is our job, and it is a privilege, even though it is hard and never-ending. @daveannwilson
• Don’t shape them [your kids] into who you want them to be, but rather call out who God has created them to be. @daveannwilson
• It’s about trusting God to work powerfully as He brings about His plan in our kids’ lives, especially when we lose hope in our own plans. @daveannwilson
• God runs to you too, even while you’re making mistakes as a parent, so don’t run from Him. Accept grace when you need it the most and deserve it the least. This is what makes it grace in the first place. @daveannwilson
• Scripture is saying that your job as a parent is to lead your kids to the truths and practices—especially the spiritual ones—they will need to survive and thrive in the future. @daveannwilson
• Your job is to keep figuring out who you are so you can use the right tools that fit for your family to make your home a haven. It’s not so much about what you are doing, but rather the atmosphere you are creating. @daveannwilson

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