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Urgent Need: During the summer months, giving typically slows as the focus turns to time off and vacations. But family ministry doesn’t stop! We need your help to continue standing strong for life, marriage, and family. Will you become 1 of the supporters needed before 11:59 p.m. on August 31?

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Parenting

Learning styles matter. Little boy in a blue long sleeved shirt struggling over his homework.

Learning Styles: Different Kinds of Smart

Recognize the differences in how your children learn.

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A Father’s Day Note from a Redeemed Father

Explore Jim Daly’s encouragement to fathers for this Father’s Day. Then, think about how your family can make the most of Father’s Day.

Father and son fishing off a pier.

The Power and Importance of a Father’s Role in Child Development

God’s Word clearly indicates that fathers bring power to the parenting relationship.

What is Adventures in Odyssey?

Looking for family adventure? Take a journey of imagination to the small town of Odyssey where you’ll experience fun, suspense, romance, and more!

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4 Ways to Survive Being a Single Mom

More and more moms are finding themselves handling all of the responsibility of raising a family. Here’s how you can do more than just survive.

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Playtime to Lifetimes: Supporting Grandchildren During Tough Times

For grandparents, perhaps there has never been a better time to support and serve your children and grandchildren.

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7 Things Every Homeschooling Rookie Should Know

As a homeschooling parent, don’t be afraid to learn along with your kids.

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4 Truths Homeschooling Moms Need to Know

In the spirit of Titus 2, an older mom shares four truths homeschooling moms need to knowIn the spirit of Titus 2, an older mom shares four truths homeschooling moms need to know

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Loving Your Pregnant Teenager

Parenting your pregnant teen is a whole new level of motherhood. It can also be a deepening of your relationship.

Help your child feel loved

What You Can Do to Help Your Child Feel Loved

Most parents love their children. However, many children don’t feel loved. Perhaps parents aren’t “speaking” their child’s primary love language.

Train Them Up

Helpful tips for raising godly children.

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Celebrating Mother’s Day With Young Children

Embracing the moments…

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Help! My Child Wants to be the Opposite Sex

When you experience the heart-breaking struggle of your child wanting to be the opposite sex, hold fast to truth and grace.

Unsung Hero

Burn the Ships: Not Looking Back and Learning How to Overcome Disappointment

When we were young boys living in Australia, our dad was a concert promoter. On one particular tour he lost everything – our house, our car, our family’s life savings.

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Six Ways to Build Your Teen’s Identity

Try these strategies to counteract culture by helping your teen develop a strong, positive identity.

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Help for Grandparents Caring for Children In Crisis

Grandparents sometimes have to provide safe and loving homes for grandchildren when their children, the parents of those little ones, are unable to do so.

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For King + Country and Rebecca St. James Discuss Unsung Hero with Focus on the Family

As the Family Ministry Resource Partner of Unsung Hero, the For King & Country film opening in theaters nationwide April 26, we at Focus on the Family recently sat down with the band – brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone – and their big sister, Christian music artist Rebecca Saint James.

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Confident, Selfless, Grounded: Helping Tween and Teen Daughters Navigate Friendships

A girl grounded in her identity will still feel discouraged when she doesn’t have the relational connections she craves, but a lack of friends won’t define her. And it won’t destroy her. And if she’s practicing confidence and selflessness, the lonely seasons won’t last forever.

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The Creation of Woman: Affirming Your Daughter’s Identity

For Christian families, there’s an overwhelming importance upon understanding the roles of female and male. However, our culture emphasizes different aspects of these roles from Christianity. In the Christian context, the origin point for this conversation lies at the beginning: the creation of woman and man.

Unsung hero poster of the smallbone family

Family’s not in the way. They are the way.

If the writers of the beloved Wonder Years television series were right – that growing up happens in a heartbeat, that one day you’re in diapers and the next day you’re gone – then the parenting season is equally brief, poignant, and profound.