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Staycation: 7 Cabin Fever Rescues

When cabin fever strikes during your next staycation, here’s a list of ideas to keep your kids entertained, instead of restless and bored. 

Blended Family: Filling the Role of a Parent Who Has Died

While similar in many respects to stepparenting through divorce and remarriage, parenting a child whose biological parent has died carries its own distinctives.

A teen thinks deeply as she sits on a park bench holding a hot drink

Wrestling with Big Decisions

Teens shouldn’t fret when there’s no “burning-bush” answer to their life questions.

When Parents Compare Kids

Comparing a child’s development isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when parents become competitive, the result can be troublesome.

Why Easter Matters

Why Does Easter Matter? – A Tony Evans Easter Sermon

Your child can have a more complete understanding of what Christ’s death and resurrection have already accomplished through your teaching them these four truths about Christ’s sacrifice.

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Right Now Love — Why Kids Should Visit the Elderly

Teach your children why it’s important to serve the elderly, even if those served can’t remember who the children are.

Two-and-a-Half Hours With Audrey

Celebrating life in the shadow of death

The First Weeks Home After an Adoption

It takes time, flexibility and a whole lot of love to help a child adapt to a new family.

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Facing the Truth

How do you tell your kids about a painful decision from your past?

Dad teaching his son how to shave with a hand razor and shaving cream

Missions to Manhood

Fathers can be purposeful in raising their sons to be good men.

Helping Adopted Children Develop a Healthy Racial Identity

You can embrace the racial differences in your adopted children and give them a healthy cultural and family identity.

When Adopted Kids Need More Than a Parent’s Love

I remember thinking, All kids need is a little love. Now after adopting six children from foster care, I realize how naïve my words were.

Letting Go of Adoption Expectations to Meet a Child’s Needs

Unfulfilled expectations can lead to disappointment and even disconnection between parents and adopted children.

Fair Does Not Mean Equal: Discipline in adoptive families

One family reveals how they helped their biological child understand discipline differences after adopting an older child.

Adoption: When Siblings Are Strangers

Ease into the transition of building bonds between new siblings after an adoption

Christian Faith in American History

Our children need to know the truth about the influence of the Christian faith in American history. After all, the freedoms we enjoy in America today originated in Judeo-Christian ideals that date back to long before the American Revolution.

Mom, dad, and two kids out for a bike ride. Dad is stopped in the foreground, posing and smiling for the camera.

From Helicopter Parent to Lighthouse Parent

Are you doing a better job of protecting your kids from the world instead of preparing them to live in it? Don’t view their struggles as a negative. Instead, help them take appropriate risks now so they learn how to trust God and lean on Him as they mature.

One Single Dad’s Story

When Don lost his wife to cancer, he was left to raise his 8-year-old daughter alone.

Navigating the Decision

Tips for deciding if and how much to work outside the home.

Staying Connected

Use conversation to stay connected.