085: Holy Troublemaking & Raising Strong-Willed Children with Daneen Akers
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07/27/20 • 31 min
Love and justice will only arise when we unite with those who are different from us. People with diverse backgrounds, faiths, and even beliefs have the power to come together and create something beautiful. However, if we surround ourselves only with those who are identical to us, we will never reach the same heights.
Daneen Akers is a visionary who understands this well. She invited me to be a part of a project that has become one of the things I feel most honored. For this project, she wrote a book for middle schoolers titled Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints. It is a children’s storybook about people from different faiths coming together to work for love and justice in their corners of the world. In this episode, she shares where her idea for this book came from and how she put it all together.
Show Highlights:
- Daneen’s process for deciding who to feature in her book.
- The profiles that especially resonated with her.
- Why it was important to her to use different styles of artists.
- The definition of troublemaking that was at the forefront of her mind.
- Advice for parents who are raising strong-willed children.
Links (affiliates included):
Find my Holy Troublemaker profile here:
https://www.holytroublemakers.com/cindy
Casper Ter Kuile’s session about rituals can be found here:
https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2020-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
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Love and justice will only arise when we unite with those who are different from us. People with diverse backgrounds, faiths, and even beliefs have the power to come together and create something beautiful. However, if we surround ourselves only with those who are identical to us, we will never reach the same heights.
Daneen Akers is a visionary who understands this well. She invited me to be a part of a project that has become one of the things I feel most honored. For this project, she wrote a book for middle schoolers titled Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints. It is a children’s storybook about people from different faiths coming together to work for love and justice in their corners of the world. In this episode, she shares where her idea for this book came from and how she put it all together.
Show Highlights:
- Daneen’s process for deciding who to feature in her book.
- The profiles that especially resonated with her.
- Why it was important to her to use different styles of artists.
- The definition of troublemaking that was at the forefront of her mind.
- Advice for parents who are raising strong-willed children.
Links (affiliates included):
Find my Holy Troublemaker profile here:
https://www.holytroublemakers.com/cindy
Casper Ter Kuile’s session about rituals can be found here:
https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2020-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
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EPISODE CREDITS:
If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.
He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.
Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
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084: Black Boys, Black Hair, Black Anger w/ Michael Waters
Many of us feel intimidated to talk to our kids about racism. It’s so much more than someone not liking someone else because of the color of their skin and that can get confusing. However, we don’t need to make it this hard. We just need to provide them with an awareness of the world and how it operates as they grow.
In this episode, Michael Waters helps us understand how to do that. He is an award-winning author, activist, professor, and speaker. He has published a couple of books on race, faith, justice, and family, so he fits right in here. He also has a children’s book coming out soon that answers many of the inquiries our children have about current events. Listen in for great insight on how to communicate with our kids about the changes that need to happen in our world.
Show Highlights:
- The conversation with his son that demanded a response and sparked the idea of a children’s book on racism.
- How to help our kids understand racial injustice.
- What actual change-making needs to look like right now.
- How to approach anger and navigate a parenting conversation on it.
- The role of faith and interfaith groups in fighting against systemic racism.
- Black hair and how it is a metaphor for the slow growth that’s required for justice work.
Links (affiliates included):
Pastor Michael’s website: https://michaelwwaters.com
Guide and coloring sheet download here:https://www.flyawaybooks.com/for-beautiful-black-boys
Parenting Forward Conference Sessions - https://www.parentingforwardconference.com/2019-sessions
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB3
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EPISODE CREDITS:
If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.
He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.
Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
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086: Parenting after Losing RHE w/ Dan Evans
So many of us grieved the loss of Rachel Held Evans. She was the best-selling author of several books and a hugely influential figure shaping a generation of discourse around faith. When she died in 2019 at the age of 37, we each had to cope with that grief in our own personal way.
One thing that brings me comfort is knowing that Rachel was loved by a man as good as Dan Evans. Losing your wife and the mother of your children is hard enough, but there is another layer in that Dan’s wife was a public figure. He has to raise his kids with Rachel’s ideas that are out there so publicly. In this episode, Dan and I discuss how he has gone about parenting his kids after losing Rachel.
Show Highlights:
- How Dan is making parenting decisions in light of the parenting research Rachel did in her life and what she would have wanted.
- The level of risk he is willing to take in parenting his kids.
- How the experience of shifting in his faith affects his parenting.
- Why he desires for his kids to see people with differing opinions from one another.
- Why it’s important to get comfortable with confusion.
- How he wishes the world could change to make space for a parent like him.
- How he navigates gender roles with one daughter and one son.
- Differentiating between making our kids bear the burden of our failures and celebrating the prospect of that possibility.
Links (affiliates included):
Rachel’s books: https://rachelheldevans.com/books
2016 and the Risk of Birth - https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/risk-of-birth-2016
No Drama Discipline - https://amzn.to/32UAKmY
Caring for your baby and young child -https://amzn.to/2ZZ7xVY
Episode 46: Grieving RHE - https://cindywangbrandt.com/podcast/episode-46-grieving-rhe-fox-news-empty-nesting-with-carol-howard-merritt/
Episode 58 with Sarah and Beth - https://cindywangbrandt.com/podcast/episode-58-talking-politics-with-your-kids-pantsuit-politics/
Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/3g0LJPn
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EPISODE CREDITS:
If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.
He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.
Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com
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