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Parenting Techniques

Memorize and Meditate

Find creative ways to make Scripture memorization fun. Here are some tips about times and ways to help your family memorize.

Conversation: Give Your Child an Identity

Great relationships aren’t built of laws or rigid rules, but of vulnerable communication, honesty, healthy conflicts, order and direction.

Parents: Protect Your Child’s Heart by Guarding Your Own

Every parent needs a deliberate, strategic and measurable plan to guard his or her child’s heart.

Do You Have a Plan?

How have you prepared your children for the attacks of Satan? Do you have a written plan to protect your children?

Four Key Beliefs From Scripture

Learning these four biblical principles will help you reap the wonderful consequences of a much closer walk with God and harmony with others.

Young girl holding up her hand to communicate "stop"

A Practical Approach to Bullies

How can parents help children deal with bullies on the bus, playground or wherever? Here’s some practical advice.

Father and his two young children praying together at a bedside with an open bible in front of them

Strengthen Your Child’s Faith With Scripture

The life that Christ promised is what we all want for our children. I want to help you teach your children to memorize and meditate on Scripture as a part of their everyday lives.

Faith at Home

Take every chance you can to practice faith-talk with your children.

Teaching Teens to Care

Teach your teens selflessness . . . even in a materialistic world.

How to Survive Baby Boot Camp

When you bring your baby home from the hospital, the rigors of basic training begin.

Passing on Faith Requires Intentionality

In addition to being intentional about communicating with your children, be intentional about modeling and sharing your faith.

Repetition and Blessing

Parents need to continually repeat the basic truths of God to our children.

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Moms Who Work Outside the Home: Organizing Your Day

A little humor, a little innovation, a little creativity and, frankly, learning the skill of “letting it go and blowing it off” is a big part of being a happier, more realistic and peaceful mom who works outside the home.

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Draw Your Children Into the Bible

Our task is not only scriptural instruction but also role modeling.

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Control Versus Responsibility

Understanding the differences between control, responsibility and liability — and how those nudge parents to try controlling teens.

How to Cope

Working through the pain and rediscovering joy

Ideas for Organization

Tips for family calendars, storage ideas, “office space” for kids and more

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Making Mornings Manageable

If the midweek scavenger hunts have left you searching for a more manageable morning system, here’s a plan of action.

Handling Disrespect

Two of your kids are fighting, another one won’t pick up his toys, and your teenager just revealed the tattoo she got without your permission. You’re exhausted, and all you want is peace. You’re not alone. For many, disciplining children is a daily challenge. When it comes to discipline in my home, I only have …

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Taming the Transition Times

Providing a way for your child to gain an understanding of how his day will go may eliminate some of the undesirable behaviors that tend to rear their ugly heads during transition times.