Episode 237: Parenting Without Panic | Rachel Gilson

Parents and caregivers of the next generation need help to lead their kids in an affirming-LGBTQ world.

 

Our guest and author, Rachel Gilson, said it well on today’s episode: “Even my friends who had great discipling moms and dads didn’t grow up in this cultural moment. Their moms and dads didn’t have to help them navigate these cultural questions.”

 

She continued: “So even they feel out on a limb: ‘No one prepped me for this.’ There is a panic of feeling without a guide and lost. That’s no one’s fault but it’s where a lot of us find ourselves now.”

 

Parents were not prepared for this. How do we live and teach the next generation wisely?

 

We also talk discuss:

 

How do we engage this topic not with a culture-warrior mentality but a Jesus mentality?

When do we talk about sex and sexuality?

How can we teach our kids a gospel identity?

 

| Highlights |

 

• “We are made for love, but for love that is richer and deeper and thicker than our culture is currently telling us it is.”
• “If I talk about sex and sexuality in a way that is calm and confident, I am going to signal to my daughter that she is never going to be shamed for asking questions, and that she is not going to cause me to curl up into embarrassment and fear.
• “I worked as a campus minister with college students for a long time. I kept asking the kids who grew up in Christian households and came to university and who were strong in the faith, ‘Why did you not get inoculated to the gospel? How did this become real to you?’ The number one answer I heard over and over and over again was, ‘It was real for my parents. As in, when they did something wrong, they asked for forgiveness.’”**

| QOTW | 

 

What generation do you actually belong to and which one should you belong to?

 

| Next Steps |

• Snag Rachel’s book here
• See her site here: https://www.rachelgilson.com
• We talked with Rachel about temptation on the show here
• We talked with Rachel about friendship here
• We mentioned thinking through school systems with a certain lens. This is the episode Laurie was referring to.