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#304: Summer Series: Part 2 - Teaching Your Kids to Fight (Wait... What?)
Teaching Kids to Fight (Well): How to Turn Sibling Conflict into Character Growth
Summer brings more time together—and more sibling conflict. But what if the fights between your kids were actually opportunities to...
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#303: Summer Series: Part 1 - Washing the School Year Off Our Kids
Welcome to our Summer Series! In this episode, Don and Suzanne talk about how to intentionally plan your family’s summer so it’s filled with peace, purpose, and connection—not just chaos.
They introduce the powerful...
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#302: A Summer to Remember (Feat. Sarah Paul)
Ready to build your family's best summer?
Madeline Jones (formerly Manning) is back—this time with special guest and fellow summer-lover Sarah Paul—to share how families can make the most of summer through simple...
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#301: Crazy Cool Family This: Raising a Servant Hearted Child
Raising a Servant-Hearted Child Starts Right Here ❤️
Do you ever wish your kids would just share the toy... without a battle?
In our latest podcast episode, we dive into one of the most powerful things we can teach...
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#300: See Where We've Been and Where We Are Going
Happy 300th Episode to us!
In this heartfelt episode of the Crazy Cool Family Podcast, Don and Suzanne reflect on over three decades of parenting, ministry, and the launch of their brand-new resource, the Parenting...
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#299: Using Guilt as a Signal
Struggle with guilt when parenting? This Episode is for you...(and me!)
In this heartfelt episode, each daughter shared how “mom guilt” has uniquely shown up in their motherhood journey.
Macy opened up about her...
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#298: What is the Playbook?
Guess what.... we've got something new for you!
Next month, our seventh child, Cade, graduates — and with that, we officially wrap up over three decades of parenting. As we step into this next season of becoming...
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#297: Crazy Cool Family This: Let's Get Real!
"What is your favorite season of parenting?"
In today’s episode, we’re talking about what we’ve learned through the years raising littles, middles, and bigs — and how to parent each age with purpose and grace. We're...
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#296: Crazy Cool Parent This: Steps to Improve Connection
Crazy Cool Family This - Connection!
We are excited to talk about this because we feel like we prioritized connections within our family and we believe it is the most important thing you can invest in - connections...
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#295: We've Never Talked about Easter....
Let's talk Easter, cause we never have!
Easter is one of the MOST important holidays within our faith and we have NEVER done a podcast on it. We’ve almost made 300 episodes and looking through them, this is the first...
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#294 In Charge Vs. In Control (Feat. Mollie Torres)
Mollie joins the podcast to talk about an insight God has been giving her about control vs. being in charge.
Mollie, a mother of two boys, and the oldest Manning kid - reflects on a thought-provoking question she...
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#293: Do you know how to disciple AND be a disciple (Feat. Marcus Warner)
In this episode of the Crazy Cool Family podcast, Don welcomes Marcus Warner, the president of Deeper Walk International and a renowned expert on family dynamics and discipleship. The conversation dives deep into...
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