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Parenting Techniques

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Constructive Praise

Help your kids grow in confidence and resilience through healthy patterns of praise. 

Show Kids How to Appreciate Their Pastor

Celebrate Clergy Appreciation Month by teaching your kids to show gratitude to your family’s pastor.

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Spread the Word: Bring Your Bible to School

Students across the country can celebrate religious freedom while sharing God’s love with their classmates.

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Teaching Kids Life Skills

Are your kids ready for the real world? What are the basics that you’d like your children to know before they left home?

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Encouraging Siblings to Get Along

Foster your children’s relationships with each other so they can learn to appreciate what makes each sibling unique.

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Manners and Making Friends

Help your child learn the necessary traits for developing friendships.

Helping Kids Accept and Enjoy Who They Are

Do your tweens struggle to understand and appreciate their identity? Help them grow in the confidence of who they are by being their sounding board instead of their boss, as they sort through, discover and learn to appreciate their own unique identity.

Teaching Kids the Weight of Words

Can the power of words be controlled? Can we teach our kids to train their tongues (and their typing!) so that their words are a force for good? Here are a few ways to help them discipline their speech.

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Teaching Your Kids About Money

Teaching kids about money is a matter of sharing your ideas and values with your kids as you go through the routines of daily life together.

Stepparenting: 4 Steps to Teen Discipline

What does a new stepdad do when kids need discipline?

Blessing Your Kids

Blessing Your Kids

It’s easier than you think to bless your kids!

Healthy Grief

What can you do to help children when they lose a grandparent, friend, sibling or parent?

What Do I Say?

How to answer difficult questions your children ask.

Stress at Home

Dr. Archibald Hart answers how stress at home and parents’ attitudes affect their children.

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Hard Prayers to Pray for Your Kids

God wants only the best for us, and He allows us to experience Him more fully and be a part of what He is doing when we pray from an eternal perspective.

Conflict Resolution Skills for Kids

Even when you demonstrate appropriate ways to respond to conflict, you can’t assume your children understand why you interact with others the way you do. So guide them toward becoming ministers of reconciliation in their words and actions.

Stop Refereeing Your Preschoolers!

Being the police, detective, mediator and judge for every squabble poorly equips our children for independence. Instead, we should invest time teaching our children to keep the peace. 

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Nurturing a Servant’s Heart in Kids

Encouraging a Christlike heart in our children starts with being authentic in our faith, modeling Christ’s love and allowing our children to experience Him. Then they can respond to what He is doing in their lives.

Establishing a Legacy of Faith for Newborns

Our children have eternal souls in need of salvation, and we have a part in ensuring that they know God.

A Written Blessing

Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to affirm them.