Straight Talk is the name we use for the parenting classes held at Stonebriar Community Church. Straight Talks are conversations about those parenting topics that normally do not come up in the course of general conversation in churches today. We want to help you face those tough topics head on and as part of our parenting community
Raising Digital Natives
In our recent Straight Talk: Raising Digital Natives, we shared insights and recommendations to help you step into your iGeneration’s digital universe and parent in a world so different from the one you grew up in. Who is an iGeneration or Digital Native? The iGeneration was born after the year 2000 and is the...
Straight Talk: Dating and Biblical Sexuality
There is a biblical foundation for our conversation about dating and sexuality. Looking at 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, we see that Paul’s letter to Corinth is about living differently in a fallen world. Paul explains that believers are to have different attitudes toward lawsuits, sex, and other controversial topics. Historically the attitudes toward sex in Corinth...
Straight Talk: Crisis of Faith
A crisis is occurring in younger generations as children who grew up in churches turn away from their faith as adults. Kids may have the book knowledge required to navigate church today, but do they have the heart for Christ that will carry them through the challenges life will bring? Do you worry your...
Straight Talk: A Look At Developing A Championship Athlete
This unique three-part series is about how to take your Christian view and values and apply them to your child’s involvement in sports. Whether at the level of recreation youth sports, club youth sports, or school sports, all parents are faced with the challenge of making the right investment of time and resources to...
Straight Talk: The Dangers and Rewards of Youth Sports
This unique three-part series is about how to take your Christian view and values and apply them to your child’s involvement in sports.It is almost impossible to raise a child in North Texas without crossing paths with sports. Families in this area are drawn to sports for entertainment, sports for competition, and sports for...
Straight Talk: Raising Girls To Be Women – Birth Through Elementary Years
Presented by Family Pastor Dave Carl and Dr. Andi Thacker, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, RPT-S There has never been an easy time to raise kids, but it seems harder today. Remember the nursery rhyme from your childhood: “What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice; that’s what little girls are made...
Straight Talk: Raising Boys To Be Boys
Boys have a purpose but they need someone to tell them what that is. Raising Boys To Be Boys helps guide parents on how to bless their boys with purpose and adventure. Replay the lesson audio below. https://parentingpathway.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/straight-talk-raising-boys-to-be-boys.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS...
Straight Talk: Escaping the Grip of Pornography
How can we as parents protect our kids? How can we break free of it ourselves, and how on earth do we live with someone who is struggling with an addiction to porn? Replay audio of the Straight Talk event where discussion took place for this powerful subject from a biblical perspective. https://parentingpathway.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20160318_StraightTalk_EscapingTheGrip.mp3Podcast: Play...
Straight Talk: Blessing Your Child
Do you remember the Bourne Identity movies? It’s the classic amnesia scenario where a character doesn’t know who he is or what he’s doing. Can you imagine walking through life aimlessly wandering? Many people do. The thing is, if you’ve never been instructed and affirmed about how and by Whom you were created, you...
Keeping Your Family Connected Without WiFi
Join Kelley Wilkinson as she highlights the best points from Craig Jutilia’s book "Faith and the Modern Family" and shares the steps to creating healthy bonds with your family. ...
Straight Talk: “I’m Happy for You (Sort Of … Not Really)” Parenting with Kay Wyma
Is comparison hijacking your life? Come spend an evening with author Kay Wills Wyma and find relief from living in comparison. Most of us can relate to the questions asked in her new book I’m Happy for You: “Tired of performing? Feeling weighed down by the pressure to be Pinteresting? Does your friend’s wardrobe,...
Parenting With Love and Leadership with Dr. John Rosemond
Dr. John Rosemond shares the biblical foundation for God’s plan for parenting. https://parentingpathway.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/201508_ST_JohnRosemond.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS...
Straight Talk: Good Kids or God Kids
For most parents, your goal is to raise Good Kids who are well behaved, respectful, polite, and self controlled. We use all means of discipline, encouragement, and even bribery to achieve this goal. But is that really the goal? Or, is our true challenge to raise children who passionately love Jesus and want to...
Straight Talk: The Dad Commandment
Discover tools you and your mate can use to build up children who love God, understand themselves and live for others. And, find out the one thing a father must never do. Replay the audio below. https://parentingpathway.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/StraightTalk5172015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS...
Drugs and Alcohol? Not My Child!
Do you know what it’s like today for kids out in the real world? It’s different than when we were young. Your child WILL have a friend who smokes pot regularly, your kid WILL be offered free drugs and alcohol, and many of OUR kids will experiment. It is human nature to push off...
Tactical Technology
Technology can be both a blessing and a curse. Kids tend to be early adopters while some parents lag behind… sometimes so much that they often give up. Are you able to manage your family’s online activities effectively and completely? In this session, we’ll walk you through some very tactical ways to make technology...
Escaping the Grip of Pornography
Though rarely discussed in church or in Christian circles, the destructive tentacles of pornography reach into most families. Once in its grip, this monster is difficult to cut loose with just one’s own efforts . . . temptation is just too strong and sticky. In this audio, Pastor Dave Carl and Pastor Steve Fischer...
Kay Wyma: Cleaning House
Do your kids expect clean, folded clothes to magically appear in their drawers? Do they roll their eyes when you suggest they clean the bathroom? By racing in to make their lives easy, have you unintentionally reinforced your children’s belief that the world revolves around them? Kay will share how to raise kids who...
Stuff Christian Kids Believe … But Shouldn’t
Kids pick up destructive myths about God from culture that can lead to passivity and confusion. Children’s Pastor Dave Carl discusses how to spot and clear out the spiritual cutter that stands in the way of a solid foundation of truth. https://parentingpathway.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Straight-Talk-Stuff-Kids-Believe.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS...
Straight Talk: Sports and Spirituality
Can sports be good for the body and the soul? Coach John Hampton talks about getting the most out of your child’s sports involvement and about the dangers of fostering a sports/faith divide in your home....
Straight Talk is the name we use for the parenting classes held at Stonebriar Community Church.