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Are You Saying the Wrong Things to Your Adult Kids?
Understanding the motives that complicate our communication with our adult kids is necessary for strengthening our relationship with our adult...
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The Power Of A Father’s Apology
Whether your children are fully grown, or still crawling on your lap, the power of an apology can transform your...
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No More Enabling Your Adult Child In Looming Crisis
It's not easy to stay strong when a crisis occurs.
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When Adult Children Move Back Home
Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy your newly empty nest, your adult child decides to move back...
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3 Ways to Effectively Parent Adult Children
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
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How to Revitalize Your Relationship with God While Navigating Empty Nest Syndrome
When we place our hope in being a parent, we find it difficult to relate to God once kids have...
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Family Estrangement: 6 Ways to Reconcile with Adult Children
You can move forward after a rift with your adult children by learning new ways to build trust and respect...
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Boomerang Kids: Sharing Your Home With An Adult Child
Navigating the return of adult children can be challenging. Nonetheless, it can also be a blessing for both generations if...
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Helping Your Teen Choose a College
Get helpful tips and great insight to help you and your teen prepare for college.
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Sexual Assault and Rape: Help for Teens
Ways to help teens understand or heal from sexual assault and rape.
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Getting Back to Normal: Changing Your Mindset
These 3 steps can help you change your mindset following the COVID-19 pandemic and start getting back to a more...
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Take the Stress Out of Family Gatherings
Do you experience stress, anxiety, even dread about some family get-togethers? You're not alone.
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Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Actions in Youth
Focus on the Family has created Alive to Thrive to provide help and hope for parents and others who interact...
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The Opioid Epidemic—Think Your Family Is Immune?
Nope. No family is immune, and sadly, teens are one of the fastest growing segments of opioid abusers.
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Redrawing Boundaries With Adult Children
How much control does, or should, a parent have over an adult child?
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Verses of Hope and Coping Skills for Depression
Feeling depressed? Bible verses about faith and hope along with coping skills may offer help to families during the hard...
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Body Image Issues and Eating Disorders
Body image issues and eating disorders are rooted in cultural messages - so how can we help our kids overcome...
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Coping With Suicide in Families
When a person dies by suicide, the family and friends who survive them must find ways to cope and continue...
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How to Talk with Your Adult Daughter about Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Same-Sex Attraction
Note: This article is intended to support and encourage parents of adult children only.
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Sexual Assault and Rape: Help for Teens
Ways to help teens understand or heal from sexual assault and rape.
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How to Help Girls with a Cybersex Addiction
Girls who struggle with pornography will find hope and healing as they learn how to get out of a cybersex...
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How Can I Parent My Adult Children Through Prayer?
Spending time in intimate conversation with our Heavenly Father on behalf of our kids can take away the feeling of...
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What Do You Do When Your Child Loses Faith in God?
When adult children deconstruct their Christianity, it can lead to isolation and self-centeredness as they prioritize their desires or preferences...
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An Essential Guide to Effective Prayer for Family
Prayer is an essential skill, and your kids will learn it from you as you do it together. Nothing will...
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Have Faith in God: 9 Bible Verses to Bless Your Kids
Encourage your kids to hold fast to the hope of Christ and to lean on Bible verses like these to...
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Nurturing Their Faith: Supporting Adult Children Who Are Questioning God
I have always loved praying for our kids, but now more than ever I treasure the time I can spend...
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What Gen Zers Believe About God
Insights for parenting a new generation
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A Traditional Advent Calendar
When the countdown to Christmas starts, some kids excitedly open the numbered doors of Advent calendars as they await the...
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When Dads Disciple Sons
When fathers make intentional efforts to disciple and mentor their sons, they build strong relationships and encourage faith development.
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What to do When Your Adult Child Is Deconstructing Their Faith
When your adult child has rejected the faith he or she was raised in, as a parent it's easy to...
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Entertainment, Worldview, and Your Family
What is a worldview and how does it impact how we view our family and our consumption of entertainment? Discover...
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A Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology (Download)
Find out how kids are using their online and mobile devices, and how that participation can impact them physically, psychologically,...
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How to Help Girls with a Cybersex Addiction
Girls who struggle with pornography will find hope and healing as they learn how to get out of a cybersex...
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Encourage Adult Children To Use Devices Wisely – Arlene Pellicane
What To Expect After My Homeschooler Graduates? – Monica Swanson
Continue Building Relationship with Your Adult Sons – Monica Swanson
Helping Your Young Adult Thrive in College – Dr. Barry Corey
Setting Boundaries When Young Adults Return Home – Dr. John Townsend
Healing Parent and Adult Child Relationships (Part 1) – Dr. John Townsend
Healing Parent and Adult Child Relationships (Part 2) – Dr. John Townsend
Establishing Healthy Boundaries with Adult Children (Part 1) – Allison Bottke
Establishing Healthy Boundaries with Adult Children (Part 2) – Allison Bottke
Strengthening Your Relationship with Your Adult Children
Broadcast Insider: Parenting Your Adult Children
Help! My Single Adult Child is Stuck
Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: 6 Steps to Sanity
I Learned the Hard Way to Set Boundaries with My Adult Child
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