Seth Barnes

Raising Resilient Kids: Giving The Gift of Discomfort

As parents, of course we love our kids. We build our lives around protecting them. We pack the snacks, fill the water bottles, fight the battles with the school, smooth the path before they ever know there was a bump. We do it because we love them. N...

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Raising Resilient Kids: Giving The Gift of Discomfort Raising Resilient Kids: Giving The Gift of Discomfort

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May 12, 2026 6:34 AM 6 min read

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My First Mother’s Day Without Mom My First Mother’s Day Without Mom

This is the first Mother’s Day I can’t call her.My mom, Jean Barnes, died last June. She was 91. Dementia slowly took pieces of her, but it never took her spirit. She stayed scrappy to the end, which is exactly how she lived every chapter of her ...

sethbarnes

May 10, 2026 2:08 PM 6 min read

The Gen Z Reframe

We Took Away the Phones. But We Forgot to Give Them Back Their Childhood. We Took Away the Phones. But We Forgot to Give Them Back Their Childhood.

Something remarkable has happened in the last couple of years. Parents started pushing back. Schools banned phones. Legislators started passing real laws. Jonathan Haidt wrote a book that gave millions of families the language and the courage to say ...

sethbarnes

May 4, 2026 6:57 PM 7 min read

Missions , The Gen Z Reframe

Your Kids Were Made for a Broken World Your Kids Were Made for a Broken World

We get the emails and texts from parents every week. They read the headlines and they worry. War in the Middle East. Political chaos at home. Economic uncertainty everywhere you look. And then their 19-year-old tells them she wants to spend a ye...

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May 1, 2026 9:00 AM 5 min read

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The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to Have The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to Have

The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to HaveAnd why it might be the one that changes everything.There is a moment that happens in almost every family, and most of us have lived both sides of it.A parent notices something in their young adult kid. A patte...

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Apr 20, 2026 8:07 PM 7 min read

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