The Bible tells parents to train their children, so you know we take that seriously here at Family Teams.

But did you know there's a different between training your children and disciplining them?

Discipline is part of the training process, but it's certainly not the whole thing.

Learn the systems we use to train our kids to do everything from:

- Cleaning up around the house before dinner,

- Listen immediately and cheerfully

- Quietly put themselves to bed

- Cook meals

- Clean up after meals

...and much, much more!

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:03 System vs philosophy

3:37 3 reasons why you need a framework

5:46 What should your training system look like?

14:02 How to get your kids to clean the house every day

16:49 Organic vs. systems thinking

Resources Mentioned:

Get our free "tips to train your child" PDF: https://familyteams.com/train

Join the Accelerator to go deeper on this: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

Training your children is a Biblical mandate.

But it's almost become a dirty word in 2026.

"How dare you train your children! You're infringing on their liberty as individuals!"

But this is part of God's expectation for parents - to raise them up in the way they should go. And that requires training.

In this episode, we'll convince you briefly why training your kids is necessary (if you still need convincing), and then give you some practical tools and mindset shifts to start actually implementing this.

Hit play and get decades of parenting experience in under 20 minutes.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:46 When Did Parenting Shift?

4:09 How Should Parents Think About Training Their Kids?

8:38 Reasons Why People Don't Train

10:27 How to Actually Train Your Kids

17:51 Getting On The Same Page As A Family Team

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Resources Mentioned:

FREE Child Training PDF: https://familyteams.com/team

Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

A few weeks ago, we posted a clip on Instagram of Jeremy reacting to a woman's explanation of her dad's unique discipline (which also included an incredible teaching on grace). It went pretty viral, being seen over half a million times on IG.

Today, we're excited to bring it full circle by having Rachel Awtrey - the woman in the reel - on the podcast, to talk more about her father's wise discipline, fathering and mothering in general, and about her new book on finding joy, even in times of hardship and trial, to which she's no stranger.

Listen in to hear why her dad's unique discipline actually worked, and how it's helped her in her own motherhood journey.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:41 Rachel's family background

3:4 The identity of "daughter"

5:54 Creativity in discipline

15:44 Discipline must be correlated to the level of connection

19:21 Love your life even when you don't love it all the time

21:59 Joy through bad news

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Resources Mentioned:

The Reel Mentioned: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSjDs-qFDj7/

Love Your Life (Even If You Don't Like It All The Time): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJY765XF/

Real Talk With Rachel Awtry: https://www.rachelawtreypodcast.com/

Rachel Awtrey on IG: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.awtrey/

Rachel's Website: https://rachelawtrey.com/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

FREE PDF on how to start your own weekly family meal rhythm: https://familyteams.com/meal

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This is the final instalment in our Weekly Family Meal series on the podcast.

We start diving deep into this topic inside the Family Teams Accelerator in February, so if you're ready to start using this tool and building a lifelong rhythm, make sure you join us to get real-time coaching as you implement it, and connect with other families!

Today we're joined by Rhett and Ang Barbour, who have been doing an intentional, weekly, family meal for 20 years.

You'll hear why it's the ONE rhythm that they never compromise on, and how they've used it to drastically shape their family culture.

Listen in and get highly actionable tips on starting your own meaningful weekly meal to help build your family's culture.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:04 How the Barbours got into this rhythm

6:49 Getting started with little kids

16:34 How this has impacted Rhett and Ang personally at a soul level

25:22 The perfect Thanksgiving meal every week

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Resources Mentioned:

FREE PDF on how to start your own weekly family meal rhythm: https://familyteams.com/meal

Join the Family Teams Accelerator for hands on training: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal

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This month we've talked about why having a weekly, multi-generational family meal is such a game changer for families who want to build a family team that lasts for generations.

We've talked about how to make the meal fun and how to make it sustainable.

Today we dive into how to maximize the meaning of this weekly family meal.

And you might be surprised about how we've done that.

This is a very counter-cultural thing to do, so make sure to listen to the full episode to get an idea of how this could look in your family, whether you're starting out as just a husband and wife with a small kid, or if you've got a large family and already have great relationships with the upstream generation.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:27 What gives a meal real meaning?

2:00 Spiritual meaning

4:23 How to stop it from feeling forced

11:03 Deep meaning for moms

14:00 Removing the meaning-killers

16:25 Combatting hustle and hurry

19:45 Not so logistical

22:55 If you don't have a great relationship with your parents...

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Resources Mentioned:

FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

🎁 FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal

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This month we're talking about how to start having weekly, multi-generational family meals, because we are convinced that this is one of the most practical ways to turn your family into a multi-generational team on mission.

Our goal is to have our kids want to be around this table every week now, while they're in our house, but also for decades after they have their own families.

So, this week, we're talking about sustainability...

How do you actually establish a tradition like this that you KEEP week after week, even when things are hard, and you're not 100% sure what you're doing?

Out goal today is to help you find a bit of an easy button that you can press, even on a hard week, because a regular cadence and rhythm is the thing that will eventually turn this into a sustainable, long-term rhythm that changes your family forever.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:06 Sustainable weekly family meals for decades

4:45 Easy and Wow

6:31 Mom's perspective

10:15 Sustainability killers

12:40 Recovering from a rough meal

14:45 To young moms

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Resources Mentioned:

🎁 FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal

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If you decide to craft a weekly, multi-generational family meal, and stick with it every week, we're convinced that this is THE thing that will unlock a close, cohesive, loving family that lasts for generations.

BUT...

And it's a big but...

If it's not fun, nobody's going to want to do it.

You can only force little kids to join you at the table for so long until they're big enough to decide for themselves. Ideally we want our kids to come back to the weekly family dinner table when they're 10, 20, 30, 40, 50...you get the idea.

So in this episode, we're talking about how to unlock the FUN of the weekly family meal (especially for dads).

Dive in and lay the foundation so you can get the most out of this month's weekly family meal deep-dives!

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

0:52 The ONE tool that will turn your family into a multi-generational family

2:47 Why fun matters

5:00 The risk of missing fun

10:05 Fun killers

14:40 Let it be meaningful

16:35 How dads can prepare their hearts for joy

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Resources Mentioned:

FREE PDF: How To Start A Weekly, Multigenerational Family Meal Rhythm: familyteams.com/meal

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

There's an unhinged consensus that patriarchy is a problem, it's bad, and it needs to be dismantled.

That's one of the core tenets of the new, secular world order and "morality".

It's totally false, but it's been spurred onward over the past 100 years by feminism, which has also become a consensus.

We're so steeped in it that seemingly everyone has assumed feminist tendencies and beliefs, just due to the waters in which we swim, culturally.

Jeremy is joined by Dr. Carrie Gress today to talk about feminism, gender, abortion, and why all of this is a slow but steady under-the-radar revolution in an attempt to destroy America and Christianity.

This conversation is VITAL to understand if you don't want to be polluted by the world.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:28 Something Wicked and End of Woman

5:06 This is NOT what feminism means

8:48 Should you want your daughters to be empowered and independent? (clip?)

12:46 Freedom as license vs to do what you ought (clip?)

20:59 Does this require theology?

26:33 Birth control (catholic birth control clip)

33:00 Abortion as a Feminist sacrament

41:54 The IDEAL Feminist movement

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Resources Mentioned:

Something Wicked by Dr. Carrie Gress: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQFVNVJL

End of Woman by Dr. Carrie Gress: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684514185/

Theology of Home: https://theologyofhome.com/

Dr. Carrie Gress: https://www.carriegress.com/

Dr. Carrie Gress on IG: https://www.instagram.com/carrie.gress/

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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Many of us are very cut off from our emotions and our own hearts, which makes connecting with our kids' hearts almost impossible.

In this episode, we're joined by Philip and Natasha Dosa of Stay and Go. They're our community coaches for January 2026 in the Accelerator, and they talk today about the lightbulb moment that changed everything in their family (external vs internal tension), as well as tools and rhythms they've developed in their own family to connect with their children's hearts and connect their own hearts to their heavenly Father.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

2:57 The Dosa's Story

7:38 The importance of the heart

18:13 Impact on parenting

22:17 Getting from external to internal tension

26:58 How this plays out as a mother

30:05 Day to day emotional regulation

35:10 One of the greatest superpowers to keep families together

45:00 Get good at this

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Resources Mentioned:

Stay and Go: https://stayandgo.org

Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

🎁 Start Connecting with Your Kids' Hearts FREE 1-Pager: https://familyteams.com/hearts

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

You've probably heard about this phrase, "DINK Lifestyle"...it stands for "Dual Income, No Kids".

This is a lifestyle that some couples are choosing to live, whereby they prioritize work and income and doing whatever they want, without the "burden" of kids.

This is a selfish, anti-family, and very sad way to live, and it's vital that we put forward a more compelling vision for the future so that we save as many people as possible from going down this path of regret.

Jeremy is joined by Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, to talk about the SILK lifestyle..."Single Income, Lots of Kids".

We talk about why DINK is so destructive, the underlying philosophy behind it, and how to create a real vision for flourishing.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:08 DINK vs SILK

3:59 Promotion of certain lifestyles

9:37 What's wrong with celebrating DINK?

15:45 Vision for flourishing

21:40 Narratives and deciding what to celebrate

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Resources Mentioned:

X Post: https://x.com/TheRobertBshow/status/1994556735764533374

Classical Conversations: https://classicalconversations.com/

New York Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/opinion/marriage-divorce-happy.html

Woke and Weaponized by Robert Bortins: https://wokeandweaponized.com/

Robert's Substack: https://substack.com/@therobertbshow

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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This is the tool you need to be using as often as possible to win the hearts of your kids.

And don't worry about it being this huge chore you need to somehow fit into your schedule...

This can be done mostly doing the same things you already do, with a bit of extra intentionality and connection.

We're talking about having 1 on 1s with your kids (and even having the kids do 1 on 1s with each other!).

If you do these regularly, you'll always know where your children's hearts are at, and be able to speak life and love into them.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:17 The 1 tool to use so no kids fall through the cracks

2:15 1:1s without adding more calendar chaos

5:07 How to have conversations with your kids

7:49 Cadence and system for 1:1s

12:32 Mom's unique role

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Resources Mentioned:

Get our top 10 questions to ask kids to build connection: https://familyteams.com/connect

Join The Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!