Episode Description
What are your children learning about marriage, faith, forgiveness, and family simply by watching you and your spouse?
In this episode of Live Your Best Marriage, Pesa Shayo and Whitney Shayo talk with Christian children’s author and Front Parking Spot podcast host Jennifer Bosma about the powerful example parents create inside their own homes.
Jennifer shares what she has learned through nearly four decades of marriage, raising three daughters, becoming a grandmother, teaching children, and helping Christian families pass their faith to the next generation.
The conversation explores how husbands and wives can remain a united front when they disagree about parenting, why parents should handle disagreements with each other instead of recruiting their children to take sides, and how small practices such as praying together, eating dinner together, putting down the phones, apologizing, forgiving, and simply having fun can shape the atmosphere of a home.
They also discuss:
Why children need present parents more than perfect parents
How husbands and wives can support each other’s parenting decisions
Why spouses should give each other the benefit of the doubt
How couples can grow spiritually together without one spouse constantly pressuring the other
Why apologizing to your spouse and children models Christian humility
What changes when your children become adults and begin building families of their own
Why marriage should look like something your children would actually want for themselves
And Jennifer’s surprisingly simple advice for strengthening your marriage this week: dance together and have fun
The United Front takeaway is simple: your children are not only listening to what you teach about faith, love, grace, and marriage. They are watching how you live those things with each other.
A united front does not mean Mom and Dad agree about everything. It means your children see two parents who communicate, repair, forgive, pray, have fun, and refuse to turn each other into the enemy.
Are culture, in-laws, divided loyalty, parenting expectations, or family pressure making it harder for you and your spouse to stay on the same side?
Take the free United Front Quiz at:
https://liveyourbestmarriage.com/quiz
In just a few minutes, you will discover where your marriage is strong, where it may be vulnerable to family and cultural pressure, and your next step toward becoming a true united front.
Learn more about Jennifer Bosma and her Christian children’s books at:
You can also listen to the Front Parking Spot podcast and follow Front Parking Spot for more encouragement on faith, motherhood, and family.
Live Your Best Marriage helps cross-cultural Christian couples stop fighting each other and start facing culture, in-laws, loyalty conflicts, family expectations, parenting, and boundaries as one united front.
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - Children Need Present Parents
- (00:00:34) - Welcoming Jennifer Bosma
- (00:01:39) - Becoming a United Front in Parenting
- (00:03:11) - What Children Need Most Today
- (00:05:52) - Navigating Different Parenting Styles
- (00:10:01) - Husband as Spiritual Leader
- (00:12:48) - Simple Faith Practices for Families
- (00:16:01) - Overcoming Mom Guilt and Mistakes
- (00:19:40) - Teaching Christian Values Through Children's Books
- (00:23:46) - Lessons From 37 Years of Marriage
- (00:28:33) - One Thing to Strengthen Your Marriage This Week
- (00:31:15) - Where to Find Jennifer Bosma