Everyday discipling

7 April 2025

You’ll find examples of and ideas for parenting for faith throughout our website, but here are some ideas to get you started.

Help from our courses and podcast

We also have courses for you to watch and share which unpack the principles of parenting for faith. Choose our original course, our course for parents and carers of teens, our bite-sized babies and toddlers course, or our course for grandparents. And our Parenting for Faith podcast has over 200 episodes with examples from all sorts of people about what discipling in the everyday is like for them.

Getting started with the five key tools

Here are two or three posts to help you get started with each of our five key tools – even if you have a tiny baby -and you’ll find more as you scroll through this topic:

To learn more about creating windows, read here how to create windows into every aspect of life and discover why creating windows is such a powerful tool for under fives.
To learn more about framing, watch how Sarah frames the church service for her child, read about creating a spiritual framework for teens and adult children and learn about the importance of giving kids the ‘whys’ as well as the ‘whats’ and the power of your stories.
To learn more about unwinding, see some ideas for unwinding wrong views of God at Christmas, see how you can give under 5s a balanced view of God and how you can help a child or young person who might struggle to relate to the idea of God as Father.
To learn more about chat and catch, see our Prayer topic.
To learn more about surfing the waves, see this story Staring at the band – which links to other, similar stories. This post unpacks the idea of the six stage circle.