The Rooted Parent Podcast, hosted by Cameron Cole and Anna Meade Harris, aims to equip and encourage parents as they disciple their children to lifelong faith in Jesus Christ. Rooted Parent is a part of the Rooted Family of Podcasts.
I can’t overstate how important hope in Jesus is. I know parents want a quick fix. They send their kids to counseling, they come in themselves, just wanting me to take away their fears and worries, and the only true…
Pretty much all of my aspirations for my kids have to do with my idols. It’s just me projecting my idols onto my kids. In the final episode of our season “What the Bible Says About Parenting,” Cameron and Anna…
One of the struggles of parenting is to understand your child, particularly who God has made your child to be, but even more so, to understand who your child is becoming according to God’s will. In this episode of…
When we remember that God is good, he is sovereign, and he is for us, we can submit our plans to whatever he has. This week Cameron and Anna examine the annunciation, the moment in Scripture when the…
If we are parenting toward some sort of outcome that makes us look good, or makes us feel good about ourselves, then our parenting is still about ourselves. It’s not about our kids, and we are basically putting…
We are removing truth from our notion of love. Culturally now, love is just a means of making everybody comfortable. In an episode youth pastors and parents will not want to miss, Cameron interviews Christian writer and apologist Alisa…
In permissive parenting, connection with the child is always prioritized over, rather than balanced with, respect for authority. In the episodes of the Rooted Parent Podcast, Cameron and Anna discuss the pitfalls of permissive parenting. Despite best intentions, sometimes parents fall into…
There can be a real temptation for parents to delight in our kids’ abilities that make us feel good about ourselves or that make us look impressive. “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at…
We need the Holy Spirit, and we need the gospel, to transform us into the kind of people whose love and affection for other people is not in response to what they do for us. Looking at Genesis 37, Cameron…
