Parenting in the Digital Age Part 1 with Chris Mckenna

Episode 80

Friends, in honor of Grandparents Day coming up next week, I am so excited about todays episode. Today I talk with Isabel Tom, author of the book, The Value of Wrinkles: a Young Perspective on How Loving the Old Will Change Your Life.

The moment I came across this book it absolutely intrigued me. It is an area in my own life where Id like to grow, and where Id like our family to grow. I am sure I am not alone in this, but sometimes we either dont slow down enough to admit it, or we just dont know where to start.

Isabels book doesnt heap on the guilt in this journey. Instead, she fills this book with gentle reminders and practical tips on honoring, valuing and loving the older people in our life. While her book isnt a step by step on how to get your older relative in a senior living facility, we do talk about things like honoring older people with hearing loss, including food that the older guests at a party can eat, or helping our older friends and relatives get gifts for our kids, or choosing a place for them to live that is 5 minutes closer than 15 minutes away. There are things we talked about that I had never considered.

Our conversation is filled with good stories, laughter, and tender moments that Isabel shares so graciously. I loved this book and I loved my conversation from Isabel. I know you will too!

Where to find Isabel:

Find her book here

Find her website here

Find her Grandkid Investigator Kit here

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 79 

This episode covers some very hard topics. With my guests, Clinton and Charity Munoz, we talked about restoring marriages to wholeness after pornography addiction and sexual betrayal and brokenness. But in spite of the difficulty of the topic, what we found is that we can both laugh and cry together because God is with us in it all. The three of us have personally experienced God turn our painful story into purpose and that is worthy of joy and hope. 

It's a story worth telling! 

What Clinton and Charity share is that people in broken and hurting marriages need: honesty and vulnerability and then stories of hope and healing. And they do an incredible job with that. From well-meaning but harmful advice that didnt do a thing for healing Clintons addiction, to Charity finally reaching her limit and giving him a hard boundary that he would have to get help healing or leave, they walk us through it all. And Clinton shares that Charitys boundary was the greatest gift hed ever been given. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is call someone out on their sin. Just like the prophet Nathan with King David. 

Ultimately, they decided to pursue healing separately and together and eventually they created their organization, Restored to More, to bring couples like them together. 

Restored to More is unique, so powerful and filled with hope! I love the work theyre doing.  

Lastly, if you are thinking, this episode isnt for me because this isnt my story, please listen to this podcast. Clinton shares the most beautiful example of a friend who educated herself on this topic in order to be more informed and available to her friend walking through this valley. May we all follow her example because there will be a day when we need to be that kind of friend!  

Please listen and share this episode and dont forget to leave a review of the podcast if you have not already. God bless you friends! 

Where to find Clinton and Charity: 

Find their website here 

Find their podcast here 

Find them on Instagram here 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find Pure Desire groups and ministry here 

Find CSATs and other helpful resources for the healing journey here 

Find the book, Intimate Deception: healing the wounds of sexual betrayal here 

Find my book, Its Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 78 

Friends, its no surprise that I start this episode by going down a rabbit trail. This time it was about hazel nuts. But the real reason I have todays guest, Tara Sun, on the program is to talk about her new book,  Overbooked and Overwhelmed: How to Keep Up With God When You are Just Trying To Keep Up With Life. 

Tara and I talk about the story behind the book and I especially loved talking about some of the parts that resonated with me most. One of those was how we both struggle to say no because we both love saying yes. There is a chapter in her book that addresses this by inviting us to be on mission for God and recognizing that sometimes that means saying no to things that arent part of that mission.  

Another important thing we talked about is that this book isnt going to give you the perfect organizational system or the best baskets and bins to buy so that you will feel more peaceful and less overwhelmed. What it will do is point you to the true source of peace and that is Jesus. 

There is so much more we discuss in this episode. I know youre going to get so much out of it. I did! Listen and share with your friends! And dont forget to leave a review of the podcast if you havent done that already. Help me spread the word! Thanks friends. 

Where to find Tara: 

Find Taras book here 

Find Taras website here 

Find Tara on Instagram here 

Find Taras podcast here 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find the book Domestic Monastery here 

 The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 77 

Today is an exciting day for my podcast. Its my first return guest, my friend, Amber ONeil Johnston! And I loved talking to Amber about her new book, Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey.  

Homegrown is such a unique book. Amber gathered and edited essays from 30 different home schoolers. In this book youll hear from veteran home schoolers, home school dads, those home schooling outside the US, home schoolers of different ethnicities, those home schooling one child or many, and second-generation home schoolers (like me!)  I have never read another homeschool book like this and I absolutely being a part of this book and now getting to share it with you. 

*And heres your reminder to take a minute today to leave a rating and review for this podcast! It is so helpful for more people to be able to find the show. Thanks for continuing to support and share the podcast. It means the world! 

Where to find Amber:  

Listen to Ambers first interview on my show here 

Find Homegrown book here 

Find Ambers website here 

Find Amber on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 76 

Todays guest is Allie Marie Smith, life coach, founder and creator of Wonderfully Made and author of the new book, Social Media Reset: A 30 Day Guided Journey to Unplug, Reconnect with God and Reclaim Your Joy.  

In this episode, Allie and I talk about how so many young girls dont have a true understanding of who they are in the eyes of God. That can cause them to turn to other things to feel worthyalcohol, drugs, promiscuity and even social media. The problem is, of course, that those things dont satisfy.  

Since 2010 the suicide rates for young people ages 10-24 has gone up 62% and over 145% among girls. Some teen girls are spending more than 40 hours a week on social media. These numbers should make us sit up and take notice! Allie calls this a  technologically induced mental health crisis. Allis response to this crisis has been to share her own story of a mental health crisis and then to offer help to girls just like her to have something better. She wants to help them understand the truth of their worth to God in a world that is trying to tell them otherwise.  

In this episode, we discuss having radical boundaries with social media, how social media can be used for good, but it can be used for bad or can cause harm, and how social media can keep us from being present in the moment. We encourage you to delay social media for your kids as long as possible and explain why you should. This is an invitation to step away from the digital world and live the life we were intended to livedeeply connected to God and others. We are inviting you and the people you love to an unplugged and flourishing life. Please accept this invitation to lean into something better and start by tuning into this honest, helpful and hopeful episode! 

Resources mentioned in this episode 

Find the Gabb phone here  (Use the code GRETA for a discount) 

Find other safe phones here, here here and here 

Find The Anxious Generation book here 

Where to find Allie: 

Find Allies blog here 

Find Allies website here 

Find the Wonderfully Made website here 

Find Social Media Reset book here 

Find  Wonderfully Made book here 

Find her upcoming conference for girls here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org