Want home to be your favorite place in the world? Want to see siblings get along like best friends? Want to send your kid off to college with hope instead of fear? At Crazy Cool Family, we can help you answer all of those questions with a resounding “YES!” We have one simple mission: To show parents how to create amazing families by building their lives around Jesus and helping their kids to do the same. In Matthew 22, Jesus tells us that what is most important in life is our relationship wi ...
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#305: Summer Series: Part 3 - Who's in Charge?
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Who’s in Charge? How to Raise Leaders at Home This Summer In this episode of the Crazy Cool Family Podcast, we dive into one of our favorite summer themes: raising leaders under your roof. Whether your kids are toddlers or teens, summer offers the perfect opportunity to build leadership skills in a low-pressure, high-relationship environment. We ex…
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#305: Summer Series: Part 3 - Who’s in Charge?
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Who’s in Charge? How to Raise Leaders at Home This Summer In this episode of the Crazy Cool Family Podcast, we dive into one of our favorite summer themes: raising leaders under your roof. Whether your kids are toddlers or teens, summer offers the perfect opportunity to build leadership skills in a low-pressure, high-relationship environment. We ex…
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#304: Summer Series: Part 2 - Teaching Your Kids to Fight (Wait... What?)
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Teaching Kids to Fight (Well): How to Turn Sibling Conflict into Character Growth Summer brings more time together—and more sibling conflict. But what if the fights between your kids were actually opportunities to shape their hearts? In this episode of the Crazy Cool Family Podcast, we unpack how to teach your kids to fight well, using biblical pri…
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#303: Summer Series: Part 1 - Washing the School Year Off Our Kids
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Welcome to our Summer Series! In this episode, Don and Suzanne talk about how to intentionally plan your family’s summer so it’s filled with peace, purpose, and connection—not just chaos. They introduce the powerful idea of “washing the school year off” your kids—helping them reset emotionally, mentally, and spiritually from the demands and structu…
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#302: A Summer to Remember (Feat. Sarah Paul)
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Ready to build your family's best summer? Madeline Jones (formerly Manning) is back—this time with special guest and fellow summer-lover Sarah Paul—to share how families can make the most of summer through simple rhythms, intentional connection, and memory-making moments. From mission trips to popsicle-fueled pool days, this episode is packed with …
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#301: Crazy Cool Family This: Raising a Servant Hearted Child
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Raising a Servant-Hearted Child Starts Right Here ❤️ Do you ever wish your kids would just share the toy... without a battle? In our latest podcast episode, we dive into one of the most powerful things we can teach our kids: how to be servant hearted. Inspired by Jesus washing His disciples' feet, we’re breaking down what it means to raise children…
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#300: See Where We’ve Been and Where We Are Going
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Happy 300th Episode to us! In this heartfelt episode of the Crazy Cool Family Podcast, Don and Suzanne reflect on over three decades of parenting, ministry, and the launch of their brand-new resource, the Parenting Playbook. Whether you're in the thick of raising toddlers or navigating relationships with adult children, this conversation reminds yo…
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#300: See Where We've Been and Where We Are Going
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Happy 300th Episode to us! In this heartfelt episode of the Crazy Cool Family Podcast, Don and Suzanne reflect on over three decades of parenting, ministry, and the launch of their brand-new resource, the Parenting Playbook. Whether you're in the thick of raising toddlers or navigating relationships with adult children, this conversation reminds yo…
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Struggle with guilt when parenting? This Episode is for you...(and me!) In this heartfelt episode, each daughter shared how “mom guilt” has uniquely shown up in their motherhood journey. Macy opened up about her tendency to feel like she should be punished for both the things she does and doesn’t do as a mom. Mollie described mom guilt as a constan…
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Guess what.... we've got something new for you! Next month, our seventh child, Cade, graduates — and with that, we officially wrap up over three decades of parenting. As we step into this next season of becoming almost-empty nesters, we’ve been reflecting on the journey that brought us here… and why Crazy Cool Family exists in the first place. In o…
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#297: Crazy Cool Family This: Let’s Get Real!
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"What is your favorite season of parenting?" In today’s episode, we’re talking about what we’ve learned through the years raising littles, middles, and bigs — and how to parent each age with purpose and grace. We're calling this theme “Crazy Cool Family This,” where we unpack key parenting concepts and make them practical for your season of life. T…
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#297: Crazy Cool Family This: Let's Get Real!
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"What is your favorite season of parenting?" In today’s episode, we’re talking about what we’ve learned through the years raising littles, middles, and bigs — and how to parent each age with purpose and grace. We're calling this theme “Crazy Cool Family This,” where we unpack key parenting concepts and make them practical for your season of life. T…
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#296: Crazy Cool Parent This: Steps to Improve Connection
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Crazy Cool Family This - Connection! We are excited to talk about this because we feel like we prioritized connections within our family and we believe it is the most important thing you can invest in - connections within family are THE MOST IMPORTANT! "Relationships build security." - Suz Here are the talking points: What is more important - obedi…
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#295: We've Never Talked about Easter....
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Let's talk Easter, cause we never have! Easter is one of the MOST important holidays within our faith and we have NEVER done a podcast on it. We’ve almost made 300 episodes and looking through them, this is the first time we’ve set aside space to talk about Easter – so let’s dive in. The goal of today's podcast is to help your family have the BEST …
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#295: We’ve Never Talked about Easter....
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Let's talk Easter, cause we never have! Easter is one of the MOST important holidays within our faith and we have NEVER done a podcast on it. We’ve almost made 300 episodes and looking through them, this is the first time we’ve set aside space to talk about Easter – so let’s dive in. The goal of today's podcast is to help your family have the BEST …
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#294 In Charge Vs. In Control (Feat. Mollie Torres)
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Mollie joins the podcast to talk about an insight God has been giving her about control vs. being in charge. Mollie, a mother of two boys, and the oldest Manning kid - reflects on a thought-provoking question she received from her church: "Where are you allowing the Holy Spirit to be in charge in your life?" She shares that she loves to be in charg…
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#293: Do you know how to disciple AND be a disciple (Feat. Marcus Warner)
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In this episode of the Crazy Cool Family podcast, Don welcomes Marcus Warner, the president of Deeper Walk International and a renowned expert on family dynamics and discipleship. The conversation dives deep into Marcus's transformative FISH discipleship methodology, which stands for Freedom, Identity, Spirit, and Heart-Focused Community. This fram…
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#292: Crazy Cool Parent This: Q&A with Don and Suz
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In Season 7 of our podcast, we are taking time to give practical parenting tips in our episodes. We are using the term, "Crazy Cool Parent This" because choosing to parent God's way is often crazy AND turns out cool. Sometimes we go deep into a specific topic and sometimes (like today) we like to throw random questions at Don and Suz and see what t…
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#291: Crazy Cool Parent This: Emotional Intelligence
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Emotions are a God given gift inside of each of us to help navigate life. But what do we do with them? Especially in our kids...? In this podcast Suzanne, Macy, and Mckenzie explore the topic of Emotional Intelligence and how to Crazy Cool Family emotions. If emotions feel challenging to you, or if they are taking over your home - you are in the ri…
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#290: Crazy Cool Parent This: Connect During Spring Break!
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Spring break is coming up and we want to start the conversation about how to invest in your kids over their break. In today's episode, we discuss how parents can make the most of the time with their kids and how to invest in them at every age. What does it look like to have CRAZY COOL CONNECTION with your kids this Spring Break? No matter what seas…
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#289: Interrupt Your Marriage (Feat. Julie Plagens)
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Do you want to stay in love with your spouse? Even through conflict? Julie Plagens, a wife, mother, and author joins our podcast to talk about her new book, Marriage Interrupted. If you are wanting to invest in your marriage and learn ways to love and forgive your spouse, this podcast is for you! Julie's new book goes over so many Kingdom principle…
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#288: Crazy Cool Parent This - Building Confident Kids
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As parents, we are called to deposit confidence in our kids - but how do you create a confident kid? The world wants to tear your child down and create insecurity inside of them. Family is the place where we wash off the world and send our kids out - confident, loved, and brave. Parents, we get to go first in building our kids up - here's how! Toda…
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#287: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters TELL ALL!
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What do you think is said when Suz gets ALL her daughters (and daughter-in-law) in a room and hits the record button? You'll have to listen to find out.... On Episode #287, we celebrate Suz's birthday! She is 23 years young😜 and living her best life! We unpack do's and don'ts from her parenting experience. Now that she has 4 grown daughters who are…
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Love is in the air and we are talking REAL LOVE and real struggles that come with marriage! With Valentine’s coming up – we wanted to take an episode to encourage and challenge you in your marriage. Don and Suz are talking about the good, bad, and ugly from their 33 years of marriage! They would say their marriage is "the best it's ever been" and "…
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#285: Are Men in America "Slow Quitting"? (Feat. Chris Harper)
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How do we take what God is doing in the world and apply it to family? Chris Harper joins Don as they unpack the 2024 election and what we are called to do. "God has given fathers a mantle to be the chief priest of his home. His home is a reflection of the greater Kingdom." - Chris Harper Here are the main topics they discuss: People's response to t…
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#285: Are Men in America ”Slow Quitting”? (Feat. Chris Harper)
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How do we take what God is doing in the world and apply it to family? Chris Harper joins Don as they unpack the 2024 election and what we are called to do. "God has given fathers a mantle to be the chief priest of his home. His home is a reflection of the greater Kingdom." - Chris Harper Here are the main topics they discuss: People's response to t…
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#284: Do you want to have a great relationship with your son or daughter?
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Do you want to have a great relationship with your son or daughter? We know the majority of parents want great relationships with their kids BUT do they actually have one? Don and Suz are focusing on the Parent to Kid and Kid to Kid relational lines this season. They have raised 7 kids and have learned a lot along the way. They are passionate about…
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Season 7 of Crazy Cool Family kicks off today, and we’re excited to dive into another year of parenting insights! As we enter 2025, we’re focusing on the word CREATE. God, the Creator, has given us the privilege and authority to shape the culture of our homes. It’s not about grinding—it’s about daily choices of love, investment, and energy. This ye…
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It's the end of a good thing... Season 6 is ending and as we are taking time today to reflect on all the episodes the season holds. Season 6 is all about relationships. If you've been around CCF for awhile, you know about the Family Dashboard and the 5 Types of Relationships. In our 2024 season, we took the 5 Types of Relationships and did podcasts…
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Are you up to your eyeballs in holiday things? It's our second to last episode of the season, can you believe it? We want to inspire you and give you tips on how to make this holiday season AMAZING! Things we don’t want your holiday season to be filled with.... Worry.... Stress.... Outbursts (from your or your kids)... We often look back and wonder…
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