Episode Summary:

In this critical episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips is joined by Karen England, President of the Capital Resource Institute and long-time advocate for parental rights, religious freedom, and education reform.

With more than 27 years of experience in policy and advocacy, Karen has been on the frontlines fighting for parents, children, and families at the local, state, and national levels. Today, she unpacks the real issues surrounding school libraries, surveys, and curriculum, and why the conversation around “book banning” is often misunderstood.

This episode equips parents with facts over fear, helping them understand what’s at stake in schools and how to practically engage their local community to protect children.

Episode Highlights:

✔️ How Karen’s journey from homeschooling mom to policy advocate began

✔️ Why more parents are “waking up” to dangers in culture and schools

✔️ The truth about books vs. curriculum—and why it matters

✔️ What parents need to know about age-inappropriate content in school libraries

✔️ The role of surveys in shaping children’s beliefs

✔️ Breaking down the recent Supreme Court case in Maryland and what it means for parents

✔️ Why complacency around executive orders can be risky

✔️ Practical steps to engage with your school board and elected officials

✔️ Encouragement for parents who feel overwhelmed by the fight

📖 Featured Resource: Capital Resource Institute Toolkit

Karen and her team created a practical toolkit to help parents organize locally, engage school boards, and protect children.

👉 Explore Resources → Capital Resource Institute

📣 Call-to-Actions (CTAs):

📲 Follow Karen England:

• Instagram: @thekitchentableactivist
• Website: Capital Resource Institute
  
  

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

• @suzannephillips_
• @beacon_parent
• Website: www.beaconparent.com
  
  

📚 Free Resource Hub:

Get parenting tools, downloads, and discipleship guides → The Hub

✨ Gain access to coaching, encouragement, and exclusive resources → The Parent Club

📥 Starting a Homeschool Pod?

Download The Pod Packet—a free step-by-step guide to launch your own homeschool pod with confidence → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

📖 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Parents are called to be the primary protectors and disciples of their children.

✅ When we engage with truth and vigilance, we model faith and courage to the next generation.

🔔 Closing Call-to-Action (CTA):

The classroom is one of the most important battlefields of our time. Don’t assume someone else is protecting your children—you are their first line of defense.

Share this episode with another parent or community leader, subscribe for weekly encouragement, and let’s continue raising families who are both informed and equipped.

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In this powerful and timely episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips is joined by long-time friend and national voice Laurie Krieg, Director of Parent Programs at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender.

Laurie brings years of wisdom and fresh insight into one of the biggest questions parents ask: “When should I talk to my kids about sex?” Spoiler: sooner than you think.

Together, they explore how to talk about sexuality, gender, singleness, and same-sex marriage with clarity, compassion, and biblical conviction. Laurie also shares behind-the-scenes insight into her new film and upcoming book—designed to help parents disciple their kids in a sexually broken world.

This episode is a must-listen for parents ready to trade silence and fear for courage and truth.

✔️ Why waiting to talk about sex is a mistake—and what age to begin

✔️ Why gospel-centered sexuality starts with the purpose of life

✔️ How to talk to your kids about same-sex marriage and gender identity

✔️ Why singleness must be part of the discipleship conversation

✔️ How to prepare your kids to respond when—not if—they see pornography

✔️ What Laurie learned while writing her new parenting book and film

✔️ What it really looks like to parent from truth, not pop culture trends

✔️ Where and when you can access the new Christian Sexuality film series

From the creators of Christian Sexuality, this new resource helps parents talk to their children with confidence about sex, gender, identity, and the gospel—all from a biblical worldview.

👉 Start learning → www.christian-sexuality.com

👉 Explore the course → Raising Kids Discipleship Series

📲 Follow Laurie Krieg and Christian Sexuality:

• Website: lauriekrieg.com

• Instagram: @laurie_krieg

• Ministry Hub: centerforfaith.com
  
  

📲 Stay Connected with Beacon Parent:

• @suzannephillips_

• @beacon_parent
  
  

📚 Free Resource Hub: Get instant access to printable downloads, discipleship tools, and Bible-based parenting guides → The Hub

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership): Gain coaching, exclusive resources, and Christ-centered community → The Parent Club

📥 Starting a Homeschool Pod? Download The Pod Packet—a free guide to launch your own homeschool pod with confidence → www.beaconparent.com/podpacket

✅ Biblical sexuality begins with understanding your identity in Christ.

✅ Discipleship in your home is the most important defense against cultural confusion.

Talking to your kids about sexuality doesn’t have to feel scary or awkward—it just needs to be biblical. If this conversation helped you or challenged your thinking, share it with a friend, a spouse, or your parenting group.

Subscribe, leave a review, and join us each week as we equip you to parent with purpose, disciple with direction, and leave an intentional legacy.

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In this timely solo episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, Suzanne Phillips tackles a crucial and often overlooked topic—Pop Culture Parenting. With a blend of personal stories, biblical truth, and cultural analysis, Suzanne challenges parents to examine who they’re following, what philosophies are shaping their home, and whether their parenting is grounded in theories or truth.

From gentle parenting trends to emotional intelligence buzzwords, this episode asks: Are we parenting based on popularity or precepts? If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by conflicting parenting advice, this conversation will ground you in the Word and encourage you to lead your children intentionally, not reactively.

✔️ A powerful story from the sidewalk: what one family taught Suzanne about discipline, design, and fatherhood

✔️ Why “children don’t come with a manual” is a myth—and what the Bible actually says about parenting

✔️ A look into the rise of gentle parenting—where it comes from, who popularized it, and what’s missing

✔️ How pop culture has influenced Christian parenting more than we realize

✔️ The difference between trends and truth—and why theories aren’t enough

✔️ Key questions every parent should ask: Who am I following? What do they believe?

✔️ An invitation to stop parenting from theory and start parenting from biblical design

🎧 Listen Now!

A curated collection of printable tools, parenting prayers, and discipleship downloads to help you raise Kingdom-minded kids—rooted in truth, not trends.

👉 Explore the Free Hub → The Hub

📲 Follow for biblical parenting encouragement and resources:

• Instagram: @suzannephillips_

• Instagram: @beacon_parent
  

✨ Join the Parent Club (Monthly Membership):

Get exclusive content, coaching, and community to help you parent with purpose → The Parent Club


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The Pod Packet is your step-by-step guide to build, launch, and lead your own homeschool pod with confidence—from vision and curriculum to finances, communication, and life skills.

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• www.suzannephillips.net

• www.lifetracklearning.com
  
  
  

✅ Your parenting is most powerful when it’s aligned with God’s design, not public opinion.

✅ To identify as a parent is to walk in sameness with the One who parents you—your Heavenly Father.

Trends change. Truth doesn’t. If this episode challenged you to look deeper at your parenting foundation, share it with a friend or small group and start the conversation.

Subscribe, leave a review, and let’s keep raising families rooted in truth—not theory.

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Welcome to the Season 4 finale of The InFormed Parent Podcast! In this heartfelt and powerful solo episode, Suzanne Phillips wraps up a rich season on identity with a deeply personal and practical conversation about the identity of the family unit.

She unpacks a truth she wishes someone had shared earlier in her parenting journey—the importance of forming a clear, intentional Family Identity rooted in God’s design. With wisdom drawn from her own experience as a parent, grandparent, and leader of the organization Beacon Parent, Suzanne invites you to become a Beacon for your children, shaping their core values, rhythms, and direction.

This episode will inspire, equip, and challenge you to parent with renewed purpose—because your family already has an identity. The goal is to define it on purpose and for a purpose.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ One parenting insight Suzanne wishes she had known early on

✔️ What it means to be discipled as a parent, not just in parenting

✔️ Defining your Family Identity: Who you are, what you value, and why it matters

✔️ The role of time, tradition, values, and victories in shaping identity

✔️ Biblical insight into the mantle of parenthood as God’s chosen design

✔️ The dangers of letting culture define your child’s “chosen family”

✔️ Practical examples of “We” statements that shape family culture

✔️ Why discipleship is the mission, and why it starts at home

✔️ Encouragement for parents: It’s never too late to begin

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📖 Featured Resource: Become a Beacon Parent!

Want to be a more intentional parent? Beacon Parent offers courses, coaching, and content to help you disciple your children with confidence.

👉 Join Our Free Resource Hub and Receive Parent Coaching at Beacon Parent → www.beaconparent.com

👉 Follow on Instagram → @beacon_parent

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📣 Know and Go:

✅ Define Your Family Identity: Take time to answer, “Who are we?”

✅ Start a new tradition or rhythm—small steps create lasting impact

✅ Create We Statements like: “We love God,” “We serve others,” “We speak truth”

✅ Be a Beacon for your children—shine both direction and warning

📲 Follow for More Encouragement and Tools:

1. @suzannephillips_

2. @beacon_parent

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🏆 Identity Truth for the Family:

✅ Identity is not just individual—it is communal.

Family identity is rooted in sameness: shared faith, shared values, shared purpose.

“Our ‘We’ becomes their foundation for ‘Me.’”

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🔔 Thank you for joining us for this incredible season of The InFormed Parent Podcast. We pray these episodes have helped you parent with purpose, disciple with direction, and leave an intentional legacy.

If this season has encouraged or impacted you, share it with a friend—and don’t forget to subscribe so you’re the first to know when Season 5 launches!

Parents, your children need you. The world is loud—but your voice of truth, love, and leadership matters more.

Until next time—stay anchored, stay informed, and keep building Kingdom families.

In this week’s episode of The InFormed Parent Podcast, host Suzanne Phillips welcomes Santosh Swamidass, founder of Launching Ground and Launch Network, for a powerful and practical conversation on discipling your children in everyday family life.

With a background in aerospace engineering, church planting, and family leadership, Santosh brings a unique blend of innovation and faith to the conversation around family discipleship. Whether you’re a parent feeling under-equipped or a church leader looking for scalable tools, this episode provides vision, strategy, and encouragement for weaving faith and character into your family rhythms.

You’ll walk away with practical insight, powerful stories, and a renewed sense of calling to raise disciples—right at home.

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Episode Highlights:

✔️ The mission behind Launching Ground—equipping families to disciple at home

✔️ Statistics that reveal a growing discipleship gap in families

✔️ Understanding the mantle of responsibility on the family unit

✔️ The powerful legacy of Jonathan Edwards and what we can learn from it

✔️ Why so many parents don’t understand discipleship—and how to change that

✔️ What to say to the parent who feels unequipped or unsure

✔️ Defining discipleship in practical, life-giving terms

✔️ A look into the stages of discipleship and how they apply to parenting

✔️ How Launching Ground’s tools and subscription boxes work

✔️ Feedback from families and churches using the tools—and the fruit it’s producing

✔️ How churches, schools, and families can get started and plug in

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📖 Featured Resource: Launching Ground Family Discipleship Tools

Explore hands-on resources designed to equip parents to disciple their children with confidence.

👉 Subscribe to the Family Discipleship Box: Faith + Fun + Formation, delivered to your home → www.LaunchingGround.com

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📣 Follow and Connect

📲 Follow Santosh & Launching Ground for more tools and stories:

• Suzanne Phillips & Beacon Parent: @suzannephillips_ | @beacon_parent

• Santosh & Launching Ground: @launchingground | @santoshswamidass

🎥 YouTube Channel: Launching Ground

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🏆 Identity & Discipleship Truths:

✅ To disciple your children is to lead them in becoming more like Christ—to identify as His.

✅ You don’t have to be perfect, just faithful. Discipleship starts with showing up.

✅ The family is God’s first design for discipleship—and that mantle is still yours to carry.

✅ When you disciple your children, you build a legacy of faith and purpose.

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🔔 Ready to take family discipleship from theory to practice? You’re not alone—resources exist, and help is available.

Subscribe, share this episode, and join the movement of parents discipling the next generation—right where they are.