Episode 244: Smartphones, Sleepovers, and Setting Standards: A Playbook for Confident Parenting with Dr. Ray Guarendi

How can you raise strong, faith-filled kids when the culture around them pushes everything but virtue? Dr. Ray Guarendi joins Dr. Greg to talk parenting with courage, moral clarity, and a little humor—even when the world tells you you're crazy.

Key Topics:

• Why raising virtuous kids today requires going against the cultural current
• The difference between parenting in love vs. parenting in fear
• How to make trustworthiness—not age—the benchmark for giving your child a smartphone
• What most parents get wrong about discipline (and how to fix it)
• Why affection from fathers is essential to building influence and obedience
• How to handle peer influence when other families don’t share your values
• The long game: how to raise kids who seek God even if they push back now
  
  

Learn More:

• Raising Upright Kids in an Upside Down World – A parenting guide by Dr. Ray Guarendi on raising children with virtue in a culture that resists it.
• Previously on Being Human:
  • Ep. # 101: Catholic Parenting Amid Cultural Chaos with Dr. Ray Guarendi
• Visit Dr. Ray Guardendi’s website – Access his full library of books, radio shows, videos, and stay tuned for the upcoming release of Zero-Drama Discipline.
• The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt’s must-read book on how screen time is reshaping childhood.
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