What should you know about raising kids who progress slower, require more attention, and increase the levels of stress for parents?

Kevin Swanson is joined by David Braun and Bill Roach to discuss caring for special needs children – those with emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges well beyond normal. They discuss…

- How to counsel a parent who has just discovered their child has a condition like Down’s Syndrome
- What’s wrong with the term “special needs,” and a better way to think about it
- How to distinguish between physical inability and sin, to avoid disciplining children for things they can’t help
- How to teach the gospel to someone who will never be able to understand complex ideas
- The one thing more helpful than any kind of therapy

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How do you raise children who still want to be around you when they’re grown? Kevin Swanson, Danny Craig, and Bill Roach start with 1 John 4. Your kids learn love from a father who has received God’s love himself.
The three of them admit where they’ve failed. Kevin spent far more time with his son than with his daughters. Bill played referee instead of listening. Danny catches himself treating his kids as an inconvenience to “the kingdom of Dad.”

They also talk about what helped: praying with each child, apologizing to their wives in front of the kids, staying close during the teen years, and Sunday night family talks.

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Jesus wants you to love and serve your wife today, and it’s easy to get into a holding pattern THINKING you’re doing that. But when the chips come down, how well are you REALLY doing?

Kevin Swanson, Bill Roach, and Daniel Craig talk about the upward call of loving your wife better every day, and especially supporting her through her own struggles. They discuss…

- How to stop being oblivious to your wife’s struggles – including the one question to ask that will open your eyes to what the real problems are in your marriage
- How to love her through trials like serious illness, with the remarkable example of how President William McKinley always ensured his bedridden wife was number one
- A controversial litmus test for knowing when your relationship is faltering without you realizing
- Some easy tactics for cultivating a stronger sensitivity to how precious your wife really is
- What to do when your wife is not responding well to your efforts at loving her better

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Homeschooling can be chaotic, and it’s easy to let the big things slip sometimes. But…what ARE the big things?

Kevin Swanson sits down with Daniel Craig and Bill Roach to discover what God says parents absolutely MUST teach their kids…

- The real place of academics, and why music is actually more important than math
- The fear of the Lord, without which any other knowledge is impossible
- Knowing, believing, and living the Word in obedience
- Loving the brothers we can see, so we can love the God we cannot
- The duty of stewardship, loving and serving others diligently, even when we don’t feel up to it
- Honoring father and mother, not because otherwise they’ll get annoyed, but because God makes this claim on their lives

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Your family schedule is a statement about what matters most in your life. God has given us a tremendous gift in time – and everyone uses it for the things they believe to be the most important.

Kevin Swanson, Todd Strawser, and Danny Craig talk about how to evaluate your schedule, and what it says about your goals, your objectives, and your reason for living. They discuss:

- Is “me time” a Christian idea, and if not, does that mean we can never have time alone?
- How much time should you spend on your own projects, vs your wife’s priorities, or your kids?
- Are you spending too much time on work…and if so, how can you redeem it without becoming less productive?
- Where is the balance with entertainment vs everything else that needs to happen – plus, should you do family worship on vacation?
- When to stick to a schedule…when to reassess and readjust…and how to be “interruptable.”

Let’s redeem the time, for the days are evil!

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Sunday morning shouldn't feel like survival. In this episode of Discipleship for Dads, Kevin Swanson, Todd Strawser, Bill Roach, and Danny Craig talk through how to actually help your children engage in corporate worship — not endure it.
Their conviction is simple: kids belong in the service, sitting under the preached Word alongside the whole body of Christ. But how do you get a two-year-old through a two-hour service? The men get honest and practical, sharing what's worked (and flopped) in their own families over the years.

What you'll hear:

• Why worship is a 3-day experience — and how Saturday night sets up Sunday

• The dad's heart problem behind every rushed, distracted Sunday morning

• Age-by-age tactics: toy bags and tracing sheets for the little ones, note-taking for the older ones

• How to teach even a 4-year-old to sing (hint: it starts at bedtime)

• "Downloading" the sermon on the way home — without roasting the pastor for lunch

• Sending your kids out with a job: someone to encourage, someone to pray for, someone to serve

Out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants, You have ordained strength (Psalm 8:2). Let's raise a generation that loves the gathering of God's people.

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What do you do if you started raising your kids with “gentle parenting,” and only just discovered what biblical discipline looks like?

How should you start administering the rod with a child who has never experienced it before?

Kevin Swanson, Todd Strawser, and Bill Roach draw on scripture and extensive experience to answer this question from a listener. They talk about wisely navigating adjustments like this, and the deeper principles of discipleship that help you emulate the Father in your fathering.

- The importance of slow and humble changes, confessing that you didn’t have it right, and showing that you are trying to submit to the authority of Jesus, rather than make your family submit to you
- What it means to really love a child, so you focus on shepherding his soul, rather than just fixing his behavior
- Knowing what infractions to introduce the rod for, calibrating your discipline, and the proper place of gentleness
- Ensuring your children can pick up that you love them when you’re starting to use the rod, and retaining their heart without being a people-pleaser
- The importance of affirming, encouraging, and building up in addition to physical discipline

He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly (Pr 13:24). Let’s love our sons!

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Your phone might be the biggest discipleship battle in your home - and you don't even realize it.

In this episode of Discipleship for Dads, Kevin Swanson, Todd Strawser, and Danny Craig put their phones down long enough to ask the hard question: what is that little screen actually doing to your walk with God and your relationship with your family?

They dig into the heart behind the habit - diversion, escapism, the "tyranny of the urgent," FOMO, and the love of pleasure over the love of God - and open the Word to find real answers (1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, Psalm 1, Galatians 5).

What you'll hear:
• Why "providential proximity" should change how you use your phone
• Redeeming the wasted "cracks" of your day with Scripture and prayer
• Practical guardrails - leave it in the car, leave it in the office
• When (and how) to give your kids a phone
• Building a family culture worth putting the phone down for

Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls (Proverbs 25:28). Let's build the walls back up.

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