Parents Take Five

Episode 21 - Rupture & Repair with Kami Tran

Today, Jen sits down and chats with Kami Tran. Kami is a licensed professional counselor, registered play therapist, a National Certified counselor, and a mental health supervisor with Pediatrics Plus Counseling and Diagnostics. This episode is a smidge longer than normal but worth every minute. Kami and Jen lovingly talk through the hard truth that moms and dads are human too with real human emotions that can be just as big and just as scary as their kiddo's emotions.

Episode 20 - Breathing

Can you feel it? Can you feel the pressure and the stress and the unique headache that is carpool lines? The school year has begun. While there are wonderful, beautiful parts to a new school year (reuniting with friends, a reliable routine, new office supplies) there are many hard parts to a new year. Jen takes a moment in today's episode to give you a technique she uses to breathe in God's grace and breathe out that new year stress. 

Episode 19 - I Wonder with Elizabeth Lovell Milford

Elizabeth is a wife, mother, Presbyterian minister, certified Christian educator, and a writer who currently serves as the pastor of Heritage Presbyterian Church outside Atlanta, GA. In today's episode, Elizabeth and Jen explore the opportunities parents have when our kids ask those big time questions. Do we have the answers? Do we not have the answers? How do we wonder right along with our kiddos? 

Episode 18 - Covenant Making

As a prior youth director and an associate pastor that works directly with youth, Rev. Jen has made many a covenant in her time. Most recently, she came back from a trip with the Second Pres. youth to Montreat Conference Center where they revisited their covenant and even made their own personal covenant for the week. Jen reflects on how covenant making as a family could potentially change the environment as whole in a household with littles. 

Episode 17 - Faith & Sexuality with Sophie Maness

It can be rough figuring out how to talk sexuality with our kiddos so Jen teamed up with some of the best to chat about this very subject. Sophie Maness, the Director of Christian Education at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN is a certified christian educator with a Masters in Christian Education and uses that knowledge to lead workshops centered on faith and sexuality with parents and children alike. 

Episode 16 - Get Schooled

Recently, Rev. Jen experienced a parenting revelation during family game night. Sometimes, as parents, we prefer to forget that we aren't always in control. This week, Jen reminds us to take moments to surrender our control and open our eyes to the things we can only see in that moment of surrender to our kiddos and surrender to our God.

Episode 15 - Parenting in the Pew with Nancy Myer

Today we revisit how we best worship with our children and are joined by Nancy Myer from Chapel Hill, NC. In this episode, Nancy gives tangible and real advice on what parents can do during worship time to engage and grow their children. She and Jen also encourage parents to lean into remembering that we're all out here fighting the same battle, so let's give ourselves and each other some much-deserved grace.

Episode 14 - Freedom

We're back today just in time for a conversation around freedom right before Independence Day. Freedom is a topic we tend to only visit once a year but is a feeling that we face daily. Whether it be freedom...or a lack of freedom. Rev. Jen talks with us today about how you can talk to your kiddos about freedom in the bible and in our own every day lives.