Celebrate personal moments in a powerful way that can breathe life into a young person’s heart and future!
Family Relationships
What is the next teachable moment or transition in your daughter’s life? How can you add affirmation and encouragement to that moment?
Here are a few ideas real moms and dads have created to set an atmosphere where words of affirmation and moments of celebration can be shared.
Use your children’s involvement in sports to teach them about life.
Sports have so much to teach us about what it means to live well. Yes, good character can be taught in Sunday school, but it is “practiced” on the court, diamond, gridiron and track. Virtues such as tenacity, perseverance, fairness, integrity and responsibility can be developed and strengthened as surely as the muscles and skills …
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Preschool Go on a walk with your child, and collect leaves or other objects that reflect the changing seasons. Create habits that help you connect with your wife and kids, such as phone calls from work or special “daddy” time when you walk through the doorway at the end of the day. Post pictures of …
A mom’s primary job isn’t cooking dinner, changing diapers or helping a preschooler glue colored macaroni on a coffee can as a Father’s Day gift.
If every parent’s job is to make sure his or her children turn out “right,” it would mean God messed up.
See which of these traditions might work for your family!
Get into the mind-set that everything you do as a parent ultimately is part of validating or nurturing your children.
Understanding the reasons for your child’s behavior and responses is important, but the truth is that some adoptive parents may never know the full extent of their child’s underlying problems for a number of reasons.
When you’re grieving the loss of someone who isn’t at the table, traditional holiday family events can be especially hard. Perhaps this is the year to do something different.
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
This may be the holiday season to do what brings you comfort. Choose to be around people you can count on to understand your sorrow, people who offer the support you need to get through the season.
Appreciate the precious gift of parenthood granted to you by your child’s birth family by embracing them through the love of Jesus Christ.
The respect you show for each birth parent’s intrinsic value and humanity will boost your child’s own self-respect.
It’s essential for families to develop the ability to cope with the stress that adoption can place on parents and kids.
Parents of prodigals often feel helpless and tend to think it’s because they did something wrong. But sometimes teens just rebel against anyone who gets in their way. Here’s what you can do when a child goes astray.
Sharing your loss and honoring your loved one through holiday communication might be the perfect way to bring some joy back into the season.