Challenge #1 - Q&A

Marilyn answers questions about giving hugs and affection to boys and staying calm when your child is acting out. She discusses burnout and yelling, and that God’s kindness and love empower us to repent. She finishes with instruction about self-pity.

Challenge #2 - Q&A

Marilyn gives examples of the reality of God, receiving His approval, and how love empowers obedience. She talks about how fear is the opposite of love. She encourages parents to help their kids open up and answers questions about handling children's outbursts.

Challenge #3 - Q&A

Marilyn answers questions about children having too much gaming or entertainment. She prays for the families.

Challenge #3 - Supplemental Q&A

Some of the topics discussed in this Q&A session include self-pity, codependency, gratitude and right responses as well as addressing disrespect and fear.

Challenge #4 - Q&A

Marilyn answers questions about getting your husband to pay attention to your children. She talks about keeping influence with your children and how it begins with mom.

Challenge #5 - BONUS: God is the Great Redeemer

Marilyn talks about codependency with your husband, seeing your need for God, that God is The Great Redeemer, and that you CAN change. God can completely restore your life.

Challenge #5 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about chores, expectations for your children, and character development. She talks about focus and clutter. She encourages that you can be in faith as you train your children to be a blessing and to serve. She points out some wrong expectations and developmental stages. She gives examples of how she scheduled time blocks for her lifestyle routine. Marilyn refers to her ebook—Develop Lifestyle Routine. You can find it here.

Challenge #6 - BONUS: Encouragement if you’re feeling overwhelmed

Challenge #6 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about being a single mom while homeschooling and what to do if you can’t afford to stay home and homeschool. She finishes by talking about confidence in approaching God and desperation to go all the way to the cross of death to self-life.

Challenge #7 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn shares about children being prepared for life through home education. She talks about motivating kids to do the right thing and answers questions about bribery and threats in parenting.

Challenge #7 - Recommendations from Stephanie, Shannon, Ruth and Loria

Challenge #7 -Worship and Prayer Time with Team

Challenge #8 - BONUS: About Marilyn’s Family

Challenge #8 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about helping teenagers take on appropriate responsibility, regaining influence in your child’s heart, and needing to understand your children. She gives some examples from adopting Jennifer who was 15 at the time.

Challenge #9 - BONUS: Your Children Can Come To Love Learning

Marilyn talks about her desire to buy property and her recent move. She talks some about her book, Wisdom's Way of Learning and principle-based ways to induce a love of learning and whole-life learning in your children.

Challenge #9 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about bedtime, how to start turning things around in your family, and helping children have a relationship with God. She talks about the reality of life—work first, play later and understanding that what's good for you is good for your children. She talks some about consequences and entitlement. She finishes with a great explanation of how character is developed in children.

Challenge #10 - BONUS: Challenge Review So Far

Challenge #10 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn discusses governing your family and answers questions about consequences. She gives some warning against codependency, anger, willfulness, and resentment. She gives some instruction about repenting to your children and correcting with kindness. She encourages parents to enter into their children’s interests even when they don’t want to, and she finishes up with some thoughts about passive rebellion, influence, compliance, and expressing emotions.

Challenge #11 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about screen time and gives some thoughts about instant obedience. She gives examples of wrong standards or double-standards and shares a story from her past about seeing her husband come into unity with what she hoped to do. She ends with some thoughts on understanding anger in a child.

Challenge #12 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about a child who is lashing out or being disrespectful. She urges parents to repent, grow up and allow God to help you fix your mess. She goes on to address self-respect, codependency, and boundaries.

Challenge #13 - BONUS: Get Your Children’s Hearts

Marilyn discusses training your children to bless you. She shares sentiments from her Mother's Day cards. She encourages moms to invest in getting their children’s hearts.

Challenge #13 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about out of the home activities and how much is too much. She shares principles for child development and character formation.

Challenge #14 - BONUS: Hope, Purpose, Vision

Marilyn gives some corrective instruction about self-pity and depression. She encourages you to allow God to pull you up into hope and stir-up purpose and vision in you.

Challenge #14 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about helping children with an interest you can’t afford. She encourages daily self-discipline. She cautions against unrealistic academic standards. She gives some instruction on teaching a love of learning and the 5 learning tools. She answers a question about an only child and another about playtime.

Challenge #15 - BONUS: Generosity

Marilyn shares about sowing and giving generously.

Challenge #15 - Question/Answers with Marilyn

Marilyn answers questions about training teens in discipline and character. She gives some examples of her beginnings and her radical pursuit of God. She answers a question about how to hear God’s voice and gives some examples concerning her health and ministry history. She addresses the common misconception that you can get head knowledge to become heart knowledge. She reveals how truth operates at the heart level and how repentance drives spiritual growth.

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