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#69 Most fights about the kids aren’t about the kids. (opens the original)
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Most fights between husbands and wives about the kids aren’t really about chores, bedtime, or screen time. They’re about grace versus truth. James and Arlene Pellicane unpack the three ingredients every child needs to become a capable adult: grace (nourishment), truth (resistance), and time. Too much grace produces entitlement and later disillusionment. Too much truth produces performance anxiety and often rebellion. The goal isn’t one parent as the soft one and the other as the hard one. Both s
#68 The Gravitational Pull of Dad's Faith (opens the original)
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James and Arlene Pellicane talk about faith as a powerful anchor in a child’s life. Some things are taught. Most things are caught. Kids get a front-row seat, and a household of faith and optimism can quietly defines what normal looks like. Faith is not passive belief. Hebrews 11 calls it the substance of things hoped for. It looks like action: Noah prepared an ark, Abraham left without knowing where he was going, Sarah received strength to conceive. For a dad, it can look like potty training wh
#67 Why Treating Your 20-Year-Old Like a 5-Year-Old Ruins the Relationship (opens the original)
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We all know intellectually that a parent of a 20-year-old should not treat their child like a 5-year-old. Yet many of us still do it without realizing it. Is there a parenting style that grows with your kids? In this episode we walk through Focus on the Family’s four parenting stages — Commander, Coach, Counselor, and Consultant — and why shifting from one to the next is one of the most important (and most neglected) skills in parenting. We look at what happens when parents get stuck in the wron
#66 What My Dad Did Right: A Daughter's Honest Take on Strong Dad & Raising a Resilient Kid (opens the original)
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In this heartfelt episode of the Christian Dad Podcast, James Pellicane sits down with their 16-year-old daughter Lucy to discuss the things her dad got right as a father. Lucy shares openly about how being pushed into physical challenges like martial arts, skiing, mountain biking, and early morning rowing built resilience and adaptability. She also reflects on the blessing of being raised in the church, the importance of faith-filled family leadership, and how her dad prepared them for adulthoo
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