The Teach Your Children Well Podcast

What does it take to raise resilient, Jesus-following kids when it feels like you’re swimming upstream against culture, norms, and sometimes even your own doubts? In this final extended episode of the season, Sarah Cowan Johnson hands over the mic to Andrew Mook, founding pastor of Sanctuary Church in Providence, Rhode Island, to turn the tables and interview her. Together, Sarah and Andrew dig de...

Parenting under constant stress and busyness takes a real toll, not just on our health, relationships, and spiritual well-being, but also on our children. In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast , Tracie Braylock, holistic nurse educator, wellness consultant, and author of Radical Relaxation: Releasing the Stress You Were Never Meant to Carry , joins host Sarah Cowan Johnson to tal...

Feeling unsure about how to talk to your kids about sex? Many Christian parents want to raise their kids with a healthy understanding of sex, sexuality, and identity. But most don’t know where to start. Some are still working through their own experiences with shame or silence. Others are afraid of saying the wrong thing. In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast , author, editor, an...

What are the messages that boys are receiving about manhood from the culture around them? In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast , host Sarah Cowan Johnson sits down with pastor and author Jon Tyson for a conversation about raising boys in a culture that often champions toxic or unhealthy versions of masculinity. As the author of Primal Path , a discipleship curriculum for fathers...

Grief is not a detour from discipleship—it’s part of it. When families walk through loss, parents often don’t know how to support their kids and process their own pain at the same time. What do we say? What do we do? And how do we help our children name their emotions and meet God in the middle of them? In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast , host Sarah Cowan Johnson talks with N...

What is the ultimate goal that we are seeking for our kids’ lives? As parents, it’s easy to fall into the trap of valuing our children’s performance, grades, goals, and awards more than our children themselves. But when our kids start to believe that their worth depends on what they produce, they begin to perceive both themselves and God in ways he never intended. In this episode of The Teach Your...

Phones at the dinner table. DMs at midnight. Screens that seem impossible to put down. Digital life is part of everyday life. But how do we raise wise, healthy, spiritually grounded kids in the midst of it? In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast , host Sarah Cowan Johnson talks with Jamie Gordon, a licensed social worker, mom of three, and director of the social work program at Sc...

From playgrounds to high school hallways to your kitchen table, more families than ever are feeling the weight of fear, stress, and emotional overwhelm. As parents, it’s hard enough to manage our own emotions, let alone help our kids process theirs. So, how can we help our children walk through anxiety with hope, wisdom, and a grounded sense of peace? In this episode of The Teach Your Children Wel...

What if your child doesn’t “fit the mold” of what is considered successful and flourishing? Christian parents in today’s culture can get swept up in the pursuit of achievement, perfection, and performance. They often feel pressure to measure their children’s success by grades, behavior, or milestones. But what happens when your child doesn’t hit those marks—or when you begin to question whether th...

Your children are already being discipled. The question is: by whom? In today’s fast-paced, screen-saturated culture, spiritual formation is happening all the time—often invisibly. Our habits shape what we love, and what we love forms who we become. For Christian parents, that makes the ordinary rhythms of the home deeply sacred ground. In this first episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast...

Parenting in today’s world can be a daunting task. Our kids are surrounded by increasing cultural pressure, whether it’s around technology, academic achievement, or finding their identity. And many Christian parents feel ill-equipped to guide their children through it all. But, in the face of today’s cultural narratives, how might the biblical narrative provide a clearer path forward? In The Teach...