Intentional Parenting
Scott Drew
Scott Drew is Head Coach of Baylor Men’s Basketball and is tied as the Big 12’s longest-tenured head coach with 316 victories in 16 years. Recently, we talked to him about how he’s using the Summer to focus on what matters—faith and family.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Well, actually, we're starting every morning with a family devotional. And my wife, she's a technology person. So we're able to use some different things on TV with that. But it's amazing how a lot of times as coaches, we're trying to always impact 18 to 22-year-olds. And then just to see the difference of spiritually trying to influence a seven or ten-year-old is totally different.
So anyway, that's really been my change or my focus because this is really a blessing when this is over. Hopefully, everyone chooses to make the most of this time. And we have a great impact opportunity with our young people where maybe we don't always.
We get to be around for a chance to give them devotionals in the morning because normally they're going their separate ways. So I don't know if I'm answering your question, but what I'm searching for now and in the Bible and what I'm hoping and praying for is that I can strive during this time to one day be able to look back and spiritually the last two or three weeks at home or a month or whatever it is, be able to say we’ve had an influence and impact on our children that normally we wouldn't be able to.
And what I mean by that is normally, you know, you're getting up late, you’re rushing to school. And some people do devotions in the morning before school, or kids who go to a Christian school get one in the morning. But my prayer is that at the end of however long we're at home, that's what we've been able to do with our kids.
And trying to find different ways to reach them and impact them, I think is an area that I'm focusing on right now. So, again, I don't know if it's through the word right now. And one thing I try to do is this is right, wrong and different. Everyone has different ways of reading the Bible and I try to take two chapters a night and go through it. But right now, I think I told my staff we can really have an impact on our kids because with our coaching profession and maybe some business owners that are gone and working 18 hours a day or 16 hours a day, our kids are going to see us more in this short period of time than they would any other time besides the family vacation. What a cool chance to have an impact.