157: How 20 Minutes A Day Can Fuel Your Child’s Soul with Dr. Josh and Christi Straub
No one wakes up and decides, “I’m going to ruin my marriage, neglect my kids, and cause mistrust in my family.” Yet, sometimes our spouse and children can feel like they have taken second (or last) place to our personal goals and busyness.
In Episode 157, Dr. Josh and Christi Straub share with us how seven core decisions can help us put what’s most important center stage in our lives. If you can carve out 20 minutes a day for your child, it can fuel their soul.
In This Episode, You’ll Hear About:
- The 7 decisions that a person can make to put their family center stage.
- What does being famous at home look and feel like? And why is it so important?
- How 20 minutes a day can fuel your child’s soul and change your relationship.
- The 4 ways to enter into your child’s world:
- Champion their interests and strengths.
- Calm their brain.
- Coach their challenges.
- Right your wrongs.
Resources Mentioned In This Episode:
- Famous At Home: 7 Decisions to Put Your Family Center Stage in a World Competing for Your Time, Attention, and Identity
- Healthy Habits To Teach Your Kids Who Worry A lot with Dr. Josh Straub
- How To Find Meaning In The Daily Chaos Of Raising Kids with Justin Earley
- The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids with Chris Coursey and Marcus Warner
- Enneagram and Parenting: Tips For Cultivating A Closer Relationship With Your Kids
Quotes And Tweets:
- Ask yourself, “What is stealing my time, attention, and affection from my biggest fans?” – @joshuastraub
- Your kids become who you are. So, you need to take care of yourself. @joshuastraub
- Often times we feel like victims. But, there are a lot of things under our control as choices. – Christi Straub
- Twenty minutes a day is not a magic pill for all your parenting problems. But it is what your children desire: uninterrupted, undistracted time with their greatest hero—you. @joshuastraub
- Raising great kids is a process of becoming—first becoming a more self-aware individual and then becoming an emotionally safe and grounding presence for your kids. @joshuastraub
- When you are committed to doing the work of becoming, you learn how showing up undistracted to champion what each of your children loves helps calm their emotionally overwhelmed brains and lead to the outcomes you desire most in your children. @joshuastraub
- If we don’t pursue our kids’ interests and champion who God created them to be, they’ll find somebody who will, which only builds a massive wall between their heart and ours. @joshuastraub
- Not until we feel understood do our hearts open to understanding. Sometimes our best twenty minutes with our kids happens when we tend to a fearful or angry heart at the end of the day, taking extra time to enter their world as we tuck them into bed at night. @joshuastraub
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Meet Dr. Josh and Christi Straub
Dr. Josh and Christi Straub are speakers, authors, and marriage and leadership coaches. Together they lead Famous at Home, an organization devoted to equipping leaders, organizations, military families, and churches in emotional intelligence and family wellness.
They host the weekly Famous at Home podcast, lead a yearlong coaching cohort called The Leader’s Heart, and have written children’s books on emotional intelligence. Josh and Christi love spending time on the lake with their three sweet kids and their feisty Goldendoodle, Copper.
