Roots and Wings Podcast

This episode opens up with a very short but powerful audio clip from the The Help starring Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone © 2011 - Dreamworks/Touchstone Pictures. We use this clip as an example of what this show is all about... Speaking Life and Love and Wholeness over your children... calling out the best in them... the thing you may not see today but believing is in there. On the flip side checking ourselves as parents... to be less critical and slow to use harsh or hurtful words. Reacting to our children rather than responding is not the same thing... easy to say hard to do, we've all been there. We hope this episode of Roots and Wings Podcast will encourage and inspire you! Words are powerful and can bring both life and death. We should not underestimate the power of affirming, nurturing, love filled words that we can speak to our children... and we can not do it too soon or enough. Chip shares a bit about his personal revelation as a young father regarding this topic and Brittany's response in hearing it is surprising.  As always we welcome your comments and ideas for show topics record a vice memo on your smart phone and email it to Brittany@chiprichter.com or Chip@chiprichter.com or if you want to just type your comment you can do that too. Either way we would love to hear from you and add your voice to the conversation. 

As we recorded this episode the season of Lent has just bgun. Chip and Brittany share some thoughts aroud the idea of how giving something up for a season can actually be not so much of a loss but really in the end a big gain... how "Less" can be "More" and how powerful that can be in our lives personally but also how we might see that practice can work within our families and children. Chip and Brittany share some real life stories of how one family used an opportunity of sharing the abundance of what they had with a family in need to show their children waht a Compassionate and Charitable Spirit can look like in action... and the really amazing thing was the children responded to the opportunity and blew the parents away! Here's a great resource on this topic for your family from author Jen Hatmaker her book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess (Disturbed by her family's comfortableness with American excess, Jen Hatmaker writes with humor and depth about their unique social and spiritual decision to live by a rule of seven, reducing material possessions/ distractions in order to connect with a greatly increased God.)  Send your comments and ideas for show topics to us by recording a vice memo on your smart phone and email it to Brittany@chiprichter.com or Chip@chiprichter.com or if you want to just type your comment you can do that too. Either way we would love to hear from you and add your voice to the conversation. 

We are talking about LOVE... Sibling Love to be exact. So I'm sure your kids all get along perfectly together all the time, no arguments, no fighting, no name calling, no tears.... wait ... what? ... you mean that's not happening in your household? I'm teasing of course... sibling rivalry is as old as time and common in all families. So what's a good way to minimize fighting and squabbling among your children and even more important how can you use those tense times as a parenting/teaching moment to encourage love and kindness and peace within your tribe? We touch on a couple ideas and talk about a couple great resources for you to check out. (See links below) Also as a bonus we've included Chip's song "Love, Love, Love, Love" a mash up of a couple familiar vacation Bible School songs from way back when. This tune was included on Chip's CD My Dad's Coat and features the voices of his family (Chip's kids were just wee little ones see if you can pick out Brittany :-O) doing the spoken word parts... there's a link below to download the tune or the whole CD.Resources:Love Language: The 5 Love Languages for Childrenby Gary D. Chapman (Author),‎ Ross Campbell MD (Author),‎ Ross Campbell (Author)​Love Does by Bob Goff ​(Published May 12th 2012 by Thomas Nelson)Love, Love, Love, Love, by Chip Richter from the CD "My Dad's Coat"

It's our first real episode... Brittany and Chip are responding to a question from a parent who asked, "So how does it look to pass your faith on to your kids... I mean how do you even begin?" We thought this was a great question to address as we kick off the first episode and start at the beginning... the short answer to this question is... "It's All About You" ... that's where it all begins and that's our topic of conversation in this episode.If you have a thought or question or want to share a story about what's working in your family please send them to us. You can write us an email or even better record a voice memo on your phone and email that to us then we can add your voice to the conversation. Email Brittany@chiprichter.com or Chip@chiprichter.com 

In this inaugural episode of Roots and Wings Podcast you'll meet the hosts as well as learn about what this podcast is all about. We hope you'll join the conversation each week, subscribe so you won't miss an episode and please leave a review and rate us.