Watching your child navigate friendship struggles is one of the hardest parts of parenting. Whether they’re feeling left out, experiencing rejection, facing conflict, or learning from a mistake they made, every instinct in us wants to protect them, fix it, or make the hurt disappear.
But what if our greatest role isn’t rescuing them from every hard moment… it’s walking beside them through it?
In this episode, Jen shares a heartfelt conversation about parenting through friendship challenges with grace, wisdom, and faith. She explores how our own past hurts can influence the way we respond, why it’s important to give our children space to grow, and how we can help them develop kindness, courage, discernment, and confidence rooted in who God created them to be.
This episode is a reminder that we’re not raising children who will never experience pain—we’re raising future adults who will know how to respond to it with character, compassion, and conviction.
If you’ve ever struggled with knowing when to step in, when to step back, or how to help your child find their voice without using it to wound others, this conversation is for you.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How to recognize when you’re parenting from your own wounds.
- The difference between guiding your child and trying to control the outcome.
- Practical questions that build wisdom instead of dependence.
- How to help your child use their voice with both courage and kindness.
- Why character matters more than popularity.
- How faith can anchor your child through every friendship season.
Because our children don’t need parents who can fix every problem.
They need parents who will faithfully walk beside them—and continually point them back to the One who never leaves their side.
I also think this episode could end with one simple question that stays with your listeners long after it’s over:
“Am I raising a child who always needs me to solve their problems, or am I raising a child who knows how to seek God’s wisdom when life gets hard?”
That’s the kind of reflection that can make this episode especially memorable.
In a world where being perfect seems to be the goal- - it’s important that we know who’s we are & who we are.
We aren’t called to be perfect - we are called to be better today than yesterday! - that’s it. It doesn’t have to be quantum leaps, in fact I believe that in the day to day -our little steps in the right directions!
I am on a mission to help women become more of who they were created to be and less of who they were told to be.
And, that takes intention, that takes action
: My goal is to drop some wisdom, bring you resources and that takes community.
The real unlock is the Inner Work, and that’s what we do here!
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