Connected Families Podcast

What if the behaviors that frustrate you most aren’t choices your child is making at all? Fidgeting, chewing on shirt sleeves, big reactions to small demands: sometimes there’s more happening beneath the surface than we realize. In this episode, host Stacy Bellward and guest co-host Lydia Rex welcome Jess Muehlher, founder of Delta Genesis, for a hope-filled conversation about the brain-body connection behind many of the challenges parents face. Jess shares the story that changed the direction

What happens when a parenting resource changes your family so deeply that you want every parent you know to experience it too? In this episode, guest host Chad Hayenga sits down with Joe Dewey, the new president of Connected Families, and Laura Way, manager of The Table, for a hope-filled look at what’s ahead. Joe shares why he said yes to leading the ministry and offers a first glimpse of the new resources taking shape, including support for passing faith to the next generation, content for da

What does it look like when a family’s whole trajectory begins to change? For the Dewey family, it hasn’t looked like perfection. It has looked like grace, growth, and small wins worth celebrating. Joe and his wife, Courtney, have spent years practicing the Connected Families Framework™ in their busy, homeschooling, “beautifully messy” home. Now Joe is stepping in as the new president of Connected Families. In this episode, host Stacy Bellward joins Joe and founders Jim and Lynne Jackson for a p

For more than twenty years, Connected Families has heard countless stories: parenting stress decreased, the angry household that got gentler, the relationship that came back to life. Beautiful stories, all of them. But a problem remained: stories aren’t data. In this episode, Stacy Bellward welcomes back Dr. Cindy Wilson, Connected Families Director of Education, Equipping and Research, to share results from the ministry’s first official research study on the Connected Families Framework™ and t

In part two of our conversation, Jim and Lynne Jackson sit down with Stacy Bellward and Chad Hayenga to name what they hope remains true about the grace-based parenting ministry, Connected Families, for decades to come. Along the way, listen as they unpack why grace impacts a child’s heart, walk through a live role-play of a screens-and-chores moment most of us know too well, and show what it looks like to invite restoration. You don’t want to miss it! Key Takeaways: You’ll discover why grace

Join us at our Celebration honoring Jim and Lynne Jackson at 7 pm (CST) on Thursday, September 24th, 2026. We’d love to have you with us! An occupational therapist and a youth worker walked into a basement with a few ideas about parenting and three kids willing to run the camera. Twenty-four years later, the Connected Families Framework™ has reached homes in 22 countries. In this first episode of a two-part series, Stacy Bellward sits down with co-founders Jim and Lynne Jackson, along with Dir