The Teach Your Children Well Podcast

Christian parents have a daunting task: helping their kids to love and follow Jesus in a world that doesn’t. But with the right tools, perspectives, and practices, discipling the next generation can be a creative, joyful, and faith-building adventure. Join Sarah Cowan Johnson, award-winning author of Teach Your Children Well, as she and her guests examine how the biblical story offers wisdom and good news for the twenty-first century parent.

The Teach Your Children Well Podcast is a kids podcast hosted by InterVarsity Press, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

InterVarsity Press hosts The Teach Your Children Well Podcast, a kids show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  Forming Lifelong Followers of Jesus with Sarah Cowan Johnson and special host Andrew Mook

  Aug 25, 20251h 22mS1

  <p>What does it take to raise resilient, Jesus-following kids when it feels like you’re swimming upstream against culture, norms, and sometimes even your own doubts?</p><p>In this final extended episode of the season, Sarah Cowan Johnson hands over the mic to Andrew Mook, founding pastor of Sanctuary Church in Providence, Rhode Island, to turn the tables and interview her. Together, Sarah and Andrew dig deep into the major themes, surprises, and the most memorable moments from this season of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast.</p><p>Reflecting on their shared passion for family discipleship, Sarah an...

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  Episode #9

  Forming Healthy Boundaries to Manage Family Stress with Tracie Braylock

  Aug 18, 202544 minS1

  <p>Parenting under constant stress and busyness takes a real toll, not just on our health, relationships, and spiritual well-being, but also on our children.</p><p>In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast, Tracie Braylock, holistic nurse educator, wellness consultant, and author of Radical Relaxation: Releasing the Stress You Were Never Meant to Carry, joins host Sarah Cowan Johnson to talk about the real and lasting impact of stress on parents and children. Drawing on her expertise in mind-body-spirit wellness, Tracie explains how stress shows up in families physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and why the Surgeon...

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  Episode #8

  Forming a Healthy View of Christian Sexuality in Our Kids with Rachel Joy Welcher

  Aug 11, 202552 minS1

  <p>Feeling unsure about how to talk to your kids about sex?</p><p>Many Christian parents want to raise their kids with a healthy understanding of sex, sexuality, and identity. But most don’t know where to start. Some are still working through their own experiences with shame or silence. Others are afraid of saying the wrong thing.</p><p>In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast, author, editor, and poet Rachel Joy Welcher joins Sarah Cowan Johnson to help parents move from a fear-based narrative about sex to a redemptive, biblical vision of sexuality. Drawing fr...

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  Episode #7

  Forming Boys into Healthy Men with Jon Tyson

  Aug 4, 202549 minS1

  <p>What are the messages that boys are receiving about manhood from the culture around them?</p><p>In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast, host Sarah Cowan Johnson sits down with pastor and author Jon Tyson for a conversation about raising boys in a culture that often champions toxic or unhealthy versions of masculinity. As the author of Primal Path, a discipleship curriculum for fathers and sons, Tyson has helped tens of thousands of families to walk the road from Christ-centered childhood to Christ-centered manhood.</p><p>Together, Sarah and Jon talk about the differences between...

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  Episode #6

  Forming Healthy Responses to Grief with Natasha Smith

  Jul 28, 202545 minS1

  <p>Grief is not a detour from discipleship—it’s part of it.</p><p>When families walk through loss, parents often don’t know how to support their kids and process their own pain at the same time. What do we say? What do we do? And how do we help our children name their emotions and meet God in the middle of them?</p><p>In this episode of The Teach Your Children Well Podcast, host Sarah Cowan Johnson talks with Natasha Smith, grief advocate, speaker, and author of Can You Just Sit With Me? and Black Woman Grief...

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