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Understanding How Your Teen Thinks (Part 2 of 2)

In a discussion based on their book Your Teenager is Not Crazy, Jeramy and Jerusha Clark offer parents helpful insights on how their teen’s behavior is being shaped by their changing brain chemistry. (Part 2 of 2)

Fun Ways for You to Instill Virtues in Your Children

Want to instill virtues in your children but struggle over how to do it without resorting to lectures? Courtney DeFeo has come up with enjoyable ways to get through to your kids with life-changing values.

How to Respond When Your Kids Are Bullied

Parents can help their kids break out of the bullying cycle.

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Understanding How Your Teen Thinks (Part 1 of 2)

In a discussion based on their book Your Teenager is Not Crazy, Jeramy and Jerusha Clark offer parents helpful insights on how their teen’s behavior is being shaped by their changing brain chemistry. (Part 1 of 2)

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Finding Hope and Healing After Losing a Child

Counselor and author Pam Vredevelt discusses the grief she and her husband experienced after losing two children, and she offers encouragement and advice for managing hurt, letting go of the past, and trusting God through tragedy. She also offers insight for talking appropriately to grieving people.

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Raising Daughters in God’s Wisdom

Jonathan and Wynter Pitts describe how parents can strengthen their relationship with their daughters – as well as their daughters’ faith – in a discussion based on the Pitts’ book She is Yours: Trusting God as You Raise the Girl He Gave You.

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Parenting a Constant Crier

Guide your child toward healthier responses to everyday challenges

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Protecting Your Child’s Faith in Public School (Part 2 of 2)

In a discussion based on their book Navigating Public Schools, Stephen Williams and his wife, Sarah, offer parents practical advice for helping their children stand strong for their Christian beliefs in public school. The couple addresses topics like knowing your religious rights, speaking the truth with love, preparing kids for classes that promote a secular …

Why Your Kids Need Intentional Parents

Intentional parenting just means having a plan

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Protecting Your Child’s Faith in Public School (Part 1 of 2)

In a discussion based on their book Navigating Public Schools, Stephen Williams and his wife, Sarah, offer parents practical advice for helping their children stand strong for their Christian beliefs in public school. The couple addresses topics like knowing your religious rights, speaking the truth with love, preparing kids for classes that promote a secular …

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Teaching Thankfulness

Encourage your children to develop grateful hearts that bless others and frame their own perspective.

Raising Daughters in God’s Wisdom

How have you instilled God’s wisdom in your girl’s lives?

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Leading Your Child Through Emotional Milestones (Part 2 of 2)

You mark your child’s physical and developmental milestones, but how can you measure their feelings? Counselors Sissy Goff and David Thomas discuss children’s emotional milestones – like emotional vocabulary, perspective, and empathy – and offer practical advice for how parents can help cultivate these milestones. (Part 2 of 2)

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Leading Your Child Through Emotional Milestones (Part 1 of 2)

You mark your child’s physical and developmental milestones, but how can you measure their feelings? Counselors Sissy Goff and David Thomas discuss children’s emotional milestones – like emotional vocabulary, perspective, and empathy – and offer practical advice for how parents can help cultivate these milestones. (Part 1 of 2)

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Attachment and Adoption

Adoption may create a situation in which parent-child attachment is a challenge. In this article, parents can learn some principles and strategies for encouraging attachment in an adopted child.

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Complicated Attachment Dynamics

There are several reasons that attachment between children and their caregivers may be disrupted. Here, the natural and environmental risks to forming secure attachment, and the consequences, are discussed.

Recapturing Courage: What Kids Can Teach You About God

Our kids show us what it means to have the bold spirit of a child. They live all in, and through them God shows parents how to do the same.

When You Can’t Make It Better for Your Stepkids

I wanted to fix my stepson’s problems. But I had to accept that they weren’t my problems to fix. It took some time for me to realize this. Here are some truths I have learned about letting go.

Manhood Is Not the Problem: Teach Your Sons to Be Men

Teaching our boys to be men is not dangerous, and we fathers should not shrink from this essential task.

How to Speak to Your Children When They Misbehave

Effective parenting scripts to employ when responding to your child’s misbehavior

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