
Many children born in the late 1970s to the present day have found themselves influenced by Dr James Dobson founder of Focus on the Family. James Dobson equated child rearing to training dogs, his harmful abusive training techniques raised a generation of children. We would like to speak up.
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This pod brought up things I didn’t even know I’d pushed down. The conversations are deep and dark but also uplifting and restorative. Also pretty of laughs. 5+ stars.
My Dobson story is a bit unique and my parents were only nominally religious and didn’t really play much of a role early on in my life in my religious development. They end up coming out of my traumatic experiences looking quite good, but the one thing they did wrong (which they have both since apologized to me for in both word and deed) is outsourcing all of that to a private Christian school that employed James Dobson and Dobson-adjacent material heavily in the curriculum. When you’re a neurod... more
STEPHANIE DRURY!! Great episode(s).
I am also a former worship leader for a mega church. I relate to so much of this. Thank you for the bravery, energy, and time it takes to make this show.
Never have I felt so seen as when I started to listen to this podcast! Raised Assemblies of God from as long as I can remember to 15 and then a non-denominational Evangelical church for the next 5-6 years after that, I was labeled the Strong-Willed Child from such an early age that I can’t pinpoint when it started. And as a fellow Xennial, even the cultural bits are familiar to me. I grew up in Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family (I remember when they made a big to-do over building the... more
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This podcast addresses the impactful legacy of Dr. James Dobson and the implications of his teachings on parenting and childhood experiences within evangelical contexts. The conversations often center around themes of religious trauma, the psychological effects of fundamentalist upbringing, and personal stories of healing from the emotional scars left by dogmatic ideologies. The hosts and their guests explore a range of issues such as purity culture, mental health, and the intersections of faith and personal empowerment, ultimately fostering discussions aimed at overcoming harmful narratives surrounding child-rearing practices.
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