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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Homeschool

Simple Strategies for Effective Discipline

Who runs your home? Is it you or your child? Use these simple strategies from Dr. Kevin Leman to help you parent your child to be more respectful and well behaved. 

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You Know You’re a Homeschool Parent When . . .

your kids don’t know the answer to, “What grade are you in?”

Not Enough Time in the Day?

Sometimes it feels like there’s not enough of us to go around because parenting is nonstop. Use these strategies to go from restless to resting in God’s peace as a parent.

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Is Depression a Sin?

Don’t get tangled up in the notion that depression is a sin.

Depression in a Christian Family is real. This image is a depressed man sitting staring off into space with his wife and baby in the background

Depression in the Christian Family

Many godly, Christ-centered homes struggle with clinical depression. Here’s one family’s story.

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Discipline Their Words

Give kids tools that will help them discipline their tongue so they stop name-calling, gossiping, sassing and saying hurtful words.

How Do I Handle a Sibling Rivalry?

It seems like my kids never stop fighting. How do I keep our sibling rivalry from taking over our home?

Home Schooling High School: Just the Next Step

Home schooling high school is not as scary as it sounds.

Busy Kids

How to Help Your Overscheduled and Busy Kids

God created each of our children with a unique set of gifts, talents, and interests. However, your child’s identity does not stop at what they do or how they spend their time. So often, busy kids find their worth and significance in what they do. Keep reading to explore some practical solutions to helping your …

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How Can I Get My Kids to Stop Fighting?

These four key traits will help you to teach your children how to manage their conflicts.

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Navigating Personality Differences at Home

Take some time to learn about the personalities of people around you. The goal is for your family to take the frustration that can come from different personalities and turn it into understanding how different personalities can benefit each other.

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How Birth Order Affects Sibling Conflicts

How do you parent sibling conflicts? You may have more success by knowing one secret: how your birth order affects your kids—in their birth order?

Beyond Basic Academics

Dads can model a love of learning, especially when home schooling.

The Discipline Checkup

Teach appropriate and biblical thinking and behavior.

Sibling Cooperation

Yes, siblings can get along. Here are some tips for training your children to support each other and treat each other well.

Approaches to Discipline

Parents develop expectations for their child’s behavior based on age. However, there are factors to keep in mind.

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Making Mornings Manageable

If the midweek scavenger hunts have left you searching for a more manageable morning system, here’s a plan of action.

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Taming the Transition Times

Providing a way for your child to gain an understanding of how his day will go may eliminate some of the undesirable behaviors that tend to rear their ugly heads during transition times.

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Home Schooling and Single Parents

Given up on the idea of home education? It might be time to reconsider.

Upset mom talking at her teen daughter who doesn’t care and is turned away and staring off into space

The Right Way to Communicate During Conflict

You’ll be amazed at how easily some arguments are solved after you both feel understood and valued.