Additions to the list: personal disciplines, peer friends, and honesty

The hosts add their own factors to the list: teach kids to read Scripture, pray, and think critically on their own while they are still home, so the dorm room is not the first time; make sure they have a non-parent adult to bring hard questions to; and cultivate peer Christian friendships — youth groups, camps, parent-run groups like the 'God Squad' — since smaller churches make real relationships easier. They close with a push for honesty: let kids see parents' struggles, hard conversations, and even marital conflict resolved well, and involve them in ministry conversations, because the end goal is disciples who tell people about Jesus, not good church attenders.