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Parenting content focused on relational, spiritual, and psychological well-being for parents and children. This podcast features a mother/daughter duo. Mom is a licensed mental health provider and parent-child relationship expert, hosted by her own daughter who's a young woman finding her way in the world with a passion for the next generation. Authentic, hilarious, heart-felt, and informative. We hope every parent who listens is reminded of how important they are in their child's life, and how important they are to God.

Recent Episodes

Becoming a Parent: Who Do You Think You Are?

Send us Fan Mail Parenting is a journey of becoming—not just for our children, but for us as parents, too. In this episode of Whole Person Parenting, Val and Presley are back together as they continue their series, Becoming a Parent, exploring the interpretative stage of parenthood. As parents, we are continually called to interpret and reinterpret who we are as our children grow and change. At the same time, we have the important responsibility of helping our children understand themselves—m...

27 MIN

Becoming a Parent: More Than a Mini-Me

Send us Fan Mail How much do we actually influence our kids? Spoiler alert: probably more than we realize! In this episode of Becoming a Parent, Val and Jaime talk about the big (and sometimes overwhelming) responsibility of shaping the people God has entrusted to us. Our kids are ambassadors for our family! But at the end of the day, our goal isn’t just to raise kids who represent our family well. We want to raise kids who know and love Jesus and who learn to be ambassadors for the Lord wher...

32 MIN

Becoming a Parent: Entering Your Authority Era

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually look like to parent with authority? In this episode, Val and her husband, Jaime, talk about the Authority Stage of Parenting, one of the stages Ellen Galinsky describes in her work on the stages of parenthood. Val and Jaime look back on their own parenting experience and share what it was like to set boundaries, make the tough calls, and guide their kids while figuring out the difference between authority control. They talk honestly about what worked, wh...

28 MIN

Becoming a Parent: The Beginning of Us

Send us Fan Mail What allows us to develop a relationship with our child—and what can get in the way? In infancy, becoming a parent is also the beginning of getting to know a very real, very individual child. It’s a time of discovery: learning who this little person is, while also discovering who we are as their parent. But that process doesn’t always unfold the way we imagined. Before our baby arrives, we may carry hopes, expectations, and dreams about what parenthood will be like—and even a...

29 MIN

Becoming A Parent: The Child We Imagined

Send us Fan Mail We all begin the journey of parenthood with dreams. We imagine who our child will be, what they’ll love, how they’ll grow, and perhaps even the kind of relationship we’ll share. But eventually, every parent encounters the beautiful and sometimes difficult reality that the child we imagined is not quite the child we’ve been given. In this episode of Becoming A Parent, we explore the ongoing process of reconciling our imagined child with our real child—and how that process can ...

29 MIN