Talking About Puberty with Our Daughters with Megan Ziegenfus

Home schooling mom of 10, podcaster, author of 2 beloved books and pickleball champion.  

One of the things I love about Abbie is that she is vocal about her how much she loves spending time with her teens. Like me, she really enjoys the teen years and has made it a bit of her personal mission to remind the mamas with littles that the goodness doesnt stop the moment their kids hit puberty. 

So in this episode Abbie and I talk about all things having teens. We talk about parenting with expectant hope. That means determining that well love our kids through their whole life, not just when they are cute and cuddly babies. We discuss ways to connect with our teens and how that starts by enjoying being with our kids when they are little and then continuing that as they grow. 

One of the things our kids will face as they grow up, and especially in the teen years is exposure to pornography. Abbie and I talk about how we can prepare our kids for growing up in a porn saturated world and also share with them about Gods good plan for sex. This part of our conversation was really helpful and honestly so powerful. I just know youll get a lot from it! And friends, if you are looking for more information on this topic, and still havent gotten my new book, Its Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn, this is your sign to get the book! Its time! Get your copy right here. 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find the Parenting and Pornography video here 

Where to find Abbie: 

Find Abbies books here and here 

Find Abbies website here 

Find Abbies podcast here 

Find Abbie on Instagram here 

Friends! Have you gotten my new book Its Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn yet? If not, listen to todays guest give a review of the book at the end of the podcast and be inspired to get your copy right here today! 

I met todays guest, Aubrey McGowan, at a home school mom conference called Wild and Free! What a fun way to meet this guy. Aubrey and his wife Jen are tremendous musicians, and they have performed at many of the Wild and Free conferences I have been a part of. Aubrey is also creative in other ways: hes a passionate communicator and a gifted writer. 

In todays episode we are talking about Aubreys new book, Filter the Noise: how to Hear Gods Voice in a Culture of Chaos. 

We have so much noise in our life--the noise of the physical world, the noise of the digital world and the inner noisethose voices in our head that so often tell us things that arent true. 

Aubrey asks the question: what does Christ say to this?  

While the world tells us we always need more, Christ tells us He is enough. 

Aubrey shares with us the practice he outlines in the book that can help us filter the noise we dont want or need in this life. But Aubrey reminds us: The power is in Jesus, not in the practice 

This practice is a way to point people to Jesus 

Friends, this is a longer than usual episode, but when Aubrey gets fired up he brings the wisdom and the fire and I dont want to stop him! So sit down, grab a cup of coffee and be inspired by what Aubrey shares here. Lets go! 

Resources from this episode: 

Quote from Gordon Hempton: "We have an epidemic of extinction of quiet places in our world." 

Pray Psalm 23 every morning 

Find the book Gods Smuggler here 

Quote by Corrie ten Boom If the devil cant make you sin hell make you busy 

Where to find Aubrey: 

Find Aubreys book here 

Find Aubreys website here 

Find Aubrey on Instagram here 

Find Aubreys Family Field Guide ministry here 

Find Aubreys mens ministry Whetstone here 

Listen to Aubrey and Jens music here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Oh friends, this episode is a dream come true! The incredible and dear, the epic, the lovely, the legend, the truly wonderful Sally Clarkson is on my show! 

I met Sally when I was 19 years old, through one of the books she wrote about homeschooling. I was babysitting a homeschooling family and found one of Sallys books on their bookshelf. After the kids went to bed, I began to read and Ive been the biggest Sally fan ever since. 

Unbelievably, Sally has become a real-life friend. And today she joined me on my podcast. It is just beyond what I could have imagined all those years ago. 

In this episode Sally shares that she is wild at heart! She likes to shake things up , have adventures and live outside the box. 

We talked about how God made us out of the box women and mothers and that He made our children that way too.  

And Sally reminds us that letting our children be out of the box is such a gift to them! 

We also talked about feeling alone in mothering kids who are different and finding the freedom to let our kids be themselves rather than worry about what other people think about us or them. Sally reminds us that life isnt about being the perfect mom, but getting to know the perfect God and living in His perfect plan for your life. 

Sally is just amazing and youll love hearing from her in this episode.  

Find Sally: 

Find her book Different here 

Find her book Uniquely You here 

Find her book Well Lived here 

Find Sallys website here 

Find Sally on Instagram here 

Find Sallys podcast here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

I am so glad to introduce my friend Lori Beth Auldridge to you on the podcast today! Lori Beth is such an interesting person and I knew a lot of the interesting parts of her story already. But on the podcast today, I learned even more. We talked about everything from how Lori Beth collects heritage breed animals, heritage seeds from the incredible childrens artist Tasha Tudor, was a home schooler for 11 years before she ever home schooled her own kids, her gift for hospitality, and about her business that focuses on supporting mothers and elevating motherhood.  

You will walk away from this episode feeling excited and inspired about how important it is that we nurture our kids and their learning, that we nurture ourselves as mothers and also that we nurture each other in our motherhood journey. I know youre going to love it! 

And since you do love this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on iTunes? Just a sentence or two about how The Greta Eskridge Podcast is meaningful to you will help other people find it and learn from it. You can also give it a quick 5 star rating and that helps too. Than you friends! 

Where to find Lori Beth: 

Find Lori Beths website here 

Find Lori Beths podcast here 

Find Lori Beth on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Friends, there is so much great information in this episode! I am thrilled to share it with you. Today I get to talk with Parker Hymas of Fight the New Drug. I didnt think I could be a bigger fan of this organization but after this episode, I am!! 

They are not fighting porn in a timid and embarrassed way. 

They are bold and brave in their message. But also speak with compassion and true care for anyone caught in the web of porn consumption. What they really want is to inspire change by educating people about the harm porn does. This episode is extra helpful if you have older teens or young adutls. 

In this episode we talk about how porn harms everyone and no one is immune to it, that many teens and young adults turn to porn for their sex education and that no one has ever told them that porn is not real but also that it is harmful. Fight the New Drug is all about education so they remind us that the best thing we parents can do is talk to our kids about porn. 

And I know a book that will give you all the help you need for that! I wrote Its Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn and you can purchase it right here. You dont have to have those conversations alone. 

Where to find Fight the New Drug: 

Find their website here 

Find their info for parents here 

Get Fast Facts to share with your teens/young adults here 

Find out about the live events here 

Listen to their podcast here 

Watch their videos on You Tube here 

Find them on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org