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What does it biblically look like to be a mum—especially when you’re tired, overwhelmed, and pulled in ten directions? Leah (Raising Disciples) talks practical discipleship, routines that reduce chaos, decision-making around work vs home, and a biblical framework for discipline that aims at restoration (not payback).
Key takeaways
Discipleship at home has two streams: explicit (Bible teaching) and implicit (culture, modelling, prayer, everyday life).
“Consistently average” discipleship is often more faithful than sporadic intensity.
Reading the 'actual' Bible with kids matters long-term: habit, exposure, and letting God’s Word do the work.
Routine can be freeing when the goal is minimising chaos (not performing womanhood online).
Work vs staying home isn’t a righteousness scoreboard—start with faithfulness, motives, and realistic time/energy.
Discipline is necessary and often painful, but it should move toward restoration, not disconnection.
Train (90%) + discipline (cements) beats living in constant consequence-mode.
Timestamps
00:00 Why this conversation (parenting pressure + new year intentions)
02:13 Meet Leah (4 kids; former children’s minister)
05:29 “Consistently average” discipleship (explicit vs implicit)
08:21 Reading the actual Bible with kids
15:16 Does organisation help discipleship?
20:39 Trad wives, pressure, and an “audience of one”
27:47 Working mum vs stay-at-home mum (biblical framework + realities)
49:14 Discipline: principles, pain, restoration, training
1:06:15 Practical changes for this year (simple, realistic)
Scriptures referenced
Proverbs 13:24
Hebrews 12 (esp. v9–11)
Links
Leah on Instagram: Raising Disciples https://www.instagram.com/raising.disciples_/
Jonathan Haidts substack - After Babel (lots of stats and info for parenting in todays in culture and the impacts) "These intuitions don’t even begin to resemble reality. According to Warwick Cairns, the author of How to Live Dangerously, kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger. " Quote I shared!!!
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/kids-freedom-smartphones
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-parenting-trap
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/good-news-for-anxious-kids-and-parents
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