SuffeRing — Week 4

Part of the Suffering series, this session is a conversation on a parent's biblical role in a child's mental and emotional health, with a licensed counselor joining the teaching. Mental health is framed as health, like physical or financial health, and the stigma around it begins to ease when awareness becomes a daily practice of checking emotions honestly. A united marriage is named as one of the strongest gifts parents can give children, modeling what a healthy relationship looks like. The conversation works through co-parenting without trash-talking, the anxiety driven by screen time, and the difference between chasing a child's happiness and teaching contentment and resilience. Discipline is reconnected to its root in disciple : structure, routine, age-appropriate chores, and respected authority prepare a child for the road rather than clearing the road for the child, and ultimately shape how they relate to God. The aim is to equip parents as the primary disciplers in their home.