What can you do on a staycation? If there’s one way to cement a meaningful learning experience in the hearts and minds of children, it’s field trips. As in, family field trips. Enrich your family time with low-cost, educational opportunities.
Family Relationships
While similar in many respects to stepparenting through divorce and remarriage, parenting a child whose biological parent has died carries its own distinctives.
Teens shouldn’t fret when there’s no “burning-bush” answer to their life questions.
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.
Comparing a child’s development isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when parents become competitive, the result can be troublesome.
Teach your children why it’s important to serve the elderly, even if those served can’t remember who the children are.
Celebrating life in the shadow of death
It takes time, flexibility and a whole lot of love to help a child adapt to a new family.
How do you tell your kids about a painful decision from your past?
Fathers can be purposeful in raising their sons to be good men.
You can embrace the racial differences in your adopted children and give them a healthy cultural and family identity.
Unfulfilled expectations can lead to disappointment and even disconnection between parents and adopted children.
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.
One family reveals how they helped their biological child understand discipline differences after adopting an older child.
Ease into the transition of building bonds between new siblings after an adoption
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.
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.
When Don lost his wife to cancer, he was left to raise his 8-year-old daughter alone.
There is room for all of us, and we need to come alongside each other. We are not only our roles: wife, mother, employee, stay-at-home parent. We are the fullness of who God made us to be.
Tips for deciding if and how much to work outside the home.