Foundation Worldview Podcast

A parent asks: How can I help my kids not fall into the trap of consumerism this Christmas? It's a short question without a short answer, because consumerism is all around us during the Christmas season. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz shares the gift limit her parents set when she was growing up, and the reason behind it. How many gifts is a healthy amount for your family? What do you d...

How do you help your child make friends when other kids keep leaving them out? A parent asked Elizabeth Urbanowicz about cliques at church: her family worships together during the service, and the other kids don't know her son well enough to include him. Elizabeth draws on her time as a classroom teacher, where she watched cliques form right before her eyes. Why do friendships get harder as ki...

A parent writes that their kids struggle with the idea that we are to love God above all else, even family. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz offers practical talking points for that conversation. Where does the command to love God above all come from? Does loving God most mean loving family less? What does loving God actually look like, and why would He command it? Elizabeth also shares a pra...

A listener's single sister-in-law is pregnant through no decision of her own, and their young kids already know where babies come from. How do you explain a situation like this to children? Should they hear the details at all? Most families won't face this exact situation, but every family will eventually face brokenness close to home: a divorce, an unwed pregnancy, a relative living with...

Can someone without children give sound guidance to parents? A listener asked Elizabeth Urbanowicz this question directly, and in this episode she answers it openly. Along the way, she explains standpoint epistemology, a modern idea that says certain knowledge is out of reach to anyone without a particular lived experience. Where did this idea come from, and where might you have already heard it?...

A mom of a six- and four-year-old asks: how do I help my girls understand why witchcraft is wrong without scaring them? Elizabeth Urbanowicz answers with an approach drawn from the way Scripture itself presents hard truths, one parents can use for any conversation about sin. Where should the conversation start when the topic feels too dark for a young child? How do you describe witchcraft in words...

Halloween decorations have gotten a lot darker over the past few years, with more blood and gore and more focus on death and the occult. One parent wrote in because the displays made them not even want to take walks with their kids. Shielding children from all of it isn't possible, so how can parents guide them biblically without simply saying "don't look"? In this episode, Eliza...

A listener writes in: her husband is taking a leave of absence from work while he begins treatment for anxiety and depression, and she wants to know how to explain it to their children. How do you talk with kids about a sickness they can't see? What should you say first, and what do you do when they ask something you can't answer yet? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz starts with a que...

How do you explain the Trinity to a child when you can barely wrap your own mind around it? When a four-year-old asks what the difference is between God and Jesus, most parents freeze. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz shares the simple, repeatable approach she uses to introduce the Trinity to children as young as three: the one definition worth memorizing, why the familiar apple and water ana...

Social media has been flooded recently with videos of mothers filming themselves losing control with their children, along with content framed as satire in which a woman mistreats a fake baby to make the point that children are a burden. What should Christian parents make of it? In this episode Elizabeth Urbanowicz reaches for a word she says she has never used before on this podcast, and explains...

Why do kids have to do chores, practice piano, or brush their teeth when they don't feel like it? Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks through the biblical reason responsibility isn't a punishment — it's a reflection of how God designed us as His image-bearers. In this episode you'll learn:- Why Genesis 1 frames responsibility as authority, not obligation- How to talk with kids about why wor...

Tattoos are becoming more common among Christians, so how should we think about them, and how do we help our kids think about them biblically? There is only one verse in all of Scripture that directly mentions tattoos. Does it settle the question for Christians today, or not? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz looks at what the Bible actually says, starting with Leviticus 19:28 and why it appli...

Your child has a friend who causes drama, whines when things don't go their way, and never seems to be disciplined at home. Do you allow the friendship to continue? And where exactly is the boundary? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz takes on a question every parent eventually faces. What is the actual goal of friendship, and how do you teach it to a young child? When a difficult friend is...

You've taught your children "stop, run, tell" when a bad picture appears. But what happens when the nudity is in a Renaissance painting at a museum, or in a classical homeschool curriculum? Do the same rules apply, or is there room for nuance? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz works through a question she admits she's found genuinely hard. What actually separates a Renaissanc...

A mom writes in: her 10-year-old daughter compared weights with classmates and now says she's "so fat," though she's at a perfectly healthy weight. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz offers a biblical way to help a child struggling with body image, showing why simply boosting self-esteem falls short and how to get to the real root. She then widens the lens to comparison and co...

What do you do when your child loves to argue, especially about the Bible? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz answers a parent whose 12-year-old insists Jesus sinned by staying in the temple and by clearing out the money changers. Elizabeth unpacks a question-first approach that keeps a child's genuine questions welcome instead of shutting them down, shows how to take a child back to the te...

The new Netflix "Little House on the Prairie" series has arrived, and Christian parents are asking whether it's a good fit for their families. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz rereads the original Laura Ingalls Wilder book and watches all eight episodes to walk you through where the series follows the story and where it veers off. She highlights the positive elements, the conten...

Disney's live-action Moana is in theaters, and it offers Christian families more than a decision about ticket prices. In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz reviews the 2026 film and walks parents through four biblically grounded questions to discuss with their children: how God as Creator differs from Te Fiti, what Scripture says about a human's relationship to the ocean, what our true ide...

Is Montessori a good fit for a Christian family? If you're weighing a Montessori school against a Christian one, this episode gives you a careful, fair place to start. Elizabeth Urbanowicz evaluates pure Montessori philosophy point by point, using the American Montessori Society's own description, and holds each part up to Scripture. You'll hear where Montessori genuinely reflects how...

How do you teach kids to honor authority while also recognizing when an adult is asking them to do something wrong? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz takes the question to Scripture. She walks through what the Bible says about submitting to parents, government, husbands, and the church, then turns to two examples of righteous disobedience, the Hebrew midwives who defied Pharaoh (Exodus 1) and...

Should you take your kids to Toy Story 5, and what should you talk about afterward? In this biblical worldview movie review, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks through Pixar's "toy meets tech" story, where 8-year-old Bonnie gets a tablet and slowly drifts from imaginative play, real friendship, and even the people right in front of her. It's a fun film with surprising depth, and it opens...

At what age is a child ready to participate in the Lord's Supper? And what questions should parents even be asking to find out? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz works through four biblical questions that can help you think through this as a family. Should a child be baptized first? Does the age matter? If so, why? And how can parents include younger children in the rhythm of communion eve...

You and your daughter hear a pro-choice argument that catches you off guard: if a building were on fire and you could only save the newborns in the nursery or the frozen embryos in the freezer, everyone would save the newborns, so embryos must not be as valuable. How do you respond? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz uses that exact argument to teach a simple, repeatable way to evaluate any obj...

When a nine-year-old asks whether his agnostic dad is going to hell, how do you answer honestly without making him afraid of God? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz walks parents through a Scripture-anchored way to respond: starting with what the Bible says rather than your own opinion, and giving children the fuller picture of who needs rescue, what God has done in Christ, and how deeply God d...

Your nine-year-old says another girl on her soccer team is pretty, and now she's worried she might be gay. How do you respond? In this episode, Elizabeth Urbanowicz works through a real parent's question and gives Christian families three biblical truths to teach their kids: We are all drawn to beauty by design, because God Himself is the source of all beauty. It is natural to be drawn to...