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Episode 250
Lead Parenting Expert: Why 90% of Kids Leave The Faith (w/ Dr. Greg Popcak)
Episode 250: Lead Parenting Expert: Why 90% of Kids Leave The Faith (w/ Dr. Greg Popcak)
This stat should shake every Catholic father awake: 85 to 90 percent of kids raised in Catholic homes will leave the faith by adulthood.
We’ve somehow accepted that as normal. It’s not.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Greg Popcak, a Catholic counselor with over 30 years in the trenches and author of more than 20 books, to talk about what the families who beat those odds are actually doing differently.
Greg walks me through the 12 research-validated habits that families who successfully pass on the faith all share in common, what he calls the Liturgy of Domestic Church Life. We get into why just dragging your kids to Mass and white-knuckling the family Rosary isn’t enough if there’s no joy behind it, why your kids need to experience the Faith as the source of the meaning in your home and not just the source of the rules. He breaks down what headship actually looks like when it’s modeled after the ministerial priesthood rather than a dictator, and he tells a story from his time in Hong Kong about a father who tried to hug his daughter for the first time and she didn’t even know what he was doing.
Catholic Hom App — https://www.catholichom.com/
Catholic Counselors — https://catholiccounselors.com/
More to Life — Greg and Lisa’s daily EWTN radio program https://www.ewtn.com/radio/shows/more2life
Books by Greg Popcak — https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001JS8324/allbooks
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