What do you do when your child makes choices you don’t understand or when parenting feels heavier than you ever expected?

In this hope-filled conversation, Audra sits down with Cheryl Cardall to talk honestly about loving our children when fear, disappointment, and uncertainty creep in.

Through the New Testament story of the Prodigal Son, they explore how Jesus Christ teaches us to parent with patience, grace, and deep trust in God’s plan.

This episode is for parents who:

• Love their children deeply but feel overwhelmed or afraid
• Are learning to let go of the “perfect family” ideal
• Want to trust Jesus Christ more fully with their child’s journey
• Need reassurance that waiting, loving, and hoping still matter

Together, Audra and Cheryl discuss how the Atonement of Jesus Christ can quiet fear, how to love without coercion or shame, and why our role as parents is to serve not to save.

You’ll hear gentle encouragement for parents of struggling, wandering, neurodivergent, or mentally vulnerable children, and a reminder that God’s plan is bigger, longer, and more merciful than we often realize.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Are We Losing by Joseph Grenny

Luke 15

Happy and Forever by Gerrit W Gong

No One Sits Alone by Gerrit W Gong

Connect with Cheryl on Instagram @cherylcardall

Listen to the Fight Like a Mother podcast

Connect with Audra on Instagram @audraelkington

Email: heyaudrajo@gmail.com

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