Ed Drew > Quotes

“So pause for a moment to think: what is your real main ambition for your child or children? To help you answer that, consider: What was the last reason for which you nagged them? What was the last commitment you arranged for them? What was the last story of frustration you told about them to a friend? I ask these questions not to make you feel guilty. I ask them to help you lift your eyes out of the mud and mess around your feet and look up to the sky, to the stars, to the mountains,”
― Ed Drew, Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World: A Parent's Guide to Grounding Identity in Christ

“As parents we need to model that we are a work in progress—we need to let them know our doubts and see our struggles and own our failings. Most of all, we need to keep repeating our identity: we are children of God.”
― Ed Drew, Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World: A Parent's Guide to Grounding Identity in Christ

“Here is the headline for this chapter: Christianity is not about what we do but about who we are. Before I was a Christian, I had one identity. Before I was a Christian, I was dead. Jesus saved me when, aged 11, I said, “Jesus, sorry for my sin; thank you for dying for me; please help me follow you”. So I now have a new identity. I am now alive.”
― Ed Drew, Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World: A Parent's Guide to Grounding Identity in Christ