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Should I Stay in My Abusive Marriage for the Kids?
Abusive marriages like Emma's are more common than many realize. God's plan for a family never included abuse.
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Effective Home Schooling
Here are some tips from a veteran home schooler.
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Balance Work and Family
Don’t expect corporate America to recognize how much fathers are needed at home. The employee’s family life isn’t a part...
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Blended Families
A look at different types of stepfamilies can highlight the unique challenges each stepfamily may encounter.
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Building a Strong Family
Building a strong family comes from leading your family as a group, rather than on an individual basis.
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Your Child’s Adoption Life Story
Why children who have been adopted need to know their story — and how to tell it
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A Tool for Telling a Child’s Life Story
Telling the story should not be a one-time event but an ongoing process as the child grows.
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Unique Challenges
Children who are adopted when they're older or who have more complicated histories are not likely to respond well to...
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Healthy Discipline for Adopted Children
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
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When Children Have Been Abused
Keys for offering the healing experience of meeting your adopted child's needs, if they've been abused.
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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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Beauty in the Brokenness: How God Restores Our Hearts
Kintsugi is the art of repairing something that has been broken with gold, with the understanding that the object is...
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Grief and Loss: Knowing When Kids Need to Talk
Take the time to help your children process worry, grief and loss
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Getting Back to Normal: Changing Your Mindset About COVID
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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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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A Parent’s Guide to Marijuana and Marijuana Use
Marijuana continues to grow as a socially and legally accepted drug. Read our parent's guide to marijuana to help in...
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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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The Opioid Epidemic—How to Keep Your Child from Becoming a Statistic
No family is immune, and sadly, teens are one of the fastest growing segments of opioid abusers. This series will...
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Scriptures About Beauty and Appearance
Enjoy reading key Scripture verses that relate to appearance and beauty with your child.
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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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Sexual Attraction: Guiding Your Son to Respond Well
Has your son recently discovered that his reaction to girls is changing? Sexual attraction is normal. Here's how you can...
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What Do I Do When My Daughter Starts Her Period?
My preteen daughter started her period. What should I do now? How do I approach this conversation with her?
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What Do I Do When My Preteen Daughter Hits Puberty?
My daughter hit puberty before other girls. What should I do to help her?
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Navigating Your Preteen’s Body Changes
As adolescents undergo changes to their bodies, they will need to understand what's happening, develop a positive body image and...
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Talking to Your Son About Puberty
Few words carry more awkwardness and confusion than puberty. However, this is the most critical point in your son's life....
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How to Talk to Your Daughter about Puberty
Your tween girl needs you as she starts to go through physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Learn how...
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Educating Churches
Helping churches include special needs ministry
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A Written Blessing
Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to...
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7 Ways Your Kids Can Connect With God
Many Christian parents assume that their way of connecting with God is the way their children should connect with Him....
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How to Say Prayers for Your Children
Living a life of prayer benefits you, but it also trains your children in how to pray. So find little...
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Can Virtue Be Taught?
Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.
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A Traditional Advent Calendar
Get daily insights, Scripture readings and activities to help your family make Christ the center of your Christmas celebration.
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Love One Another
Help kids learning what true, biblical love looks like with these age-appropriate activities.
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Are Your Kids Courageous?
Help your children understand the true meaning of courage.
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Christ is Lord
Do your children understand the meaning of these words? Use these age-appropriate activities to help them better understand what "Christ...
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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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Navigating the Brave New World of E-Learning
Many students now have to go to school at home because of the coronavirus. Enter the brave new world of...
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A New Dream Job: Social Media Influencers
Is there really a path to online fame and easy money for our kids?
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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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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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Beyond Protecting Your Child from Bad Influences
Get tips to help you be a proactive parent during turbulent times.
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Spanning the Music Gap: Music and Your Preteen
If you've ever tried reasoning with your adolescent about a questionable song, you know it can feel like a losing...
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The Rise of Witchcraft & Popular Culture: Is There a Connection?
Is witchcraft bad for children to watch?
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Sexy Too Soon: The Sexualization of Girls
The battle against the sexualization of our children can only be won if we as parents recognize where the battle...
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Should I Stay in My Abusive Marriage for the Kids?
Abusive marriages like Emma's are more common than many realize. God's plan for a family never included abuse.
Read More
Effective Home Schooling
Here are some tips from a veteran home schooler.
Read More
Balance Work and Family
Don’t expect corporate America to recognize how much fathers are needed at home. The employee’s family life isn’t a part...
Read More
Blended Families
A look at different types of stepfamilies can highlight the unique challenges each stepfamily may encounter.
Read More
Building a Strong Family
Building a strong family comes from leading your family as a group, rather than on an individual basis.
Read More
Your Child’s Adoption Life Story
Why children who have been adopted need to know their story — and how to tell it
Read More
A Tool for Telling a Child’s Life Story
Telling the story should not be a one-time event but an ongoing process as the child grows.
Read More
Unique Challenges
Children who are adopted when they're older or who have more complicated histories are not likely to respond well to...
Read More
Healthy Discipline for Adopted Children
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
Read More
When Children Have Been Abused
Keys for offering the healing experience of meeting your adopted child's needs, if they've been abused.
Read More
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...
Read More
Beauty in the Brokenness: How God Restores Our Hearts
Kintsugi is the art of repairing something that has been broken with gold, with the understanding that the object is...
Read More
Grief and Loss: Knowing When Kids Need to Talk
Take the time to help your children process worry, grief and loss
Read More
Getting Back to Normal: Changing Your Mindset About COVID
These 3 steps can help you change your mindset following the COVID-19 pandemic and start getting back to a more...
Read More
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...
Read More
A Parent’s Guide to Marijuana and Marijuana Use
Marijuana continues to grow as a socially and legally accepted drug. Read our parent's guide to marijuana to help in...
Read More
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...
Read More
The Opioid Epidemic—How to Keep Your Child from Becoming a Statistic
No family is immune, and sadly, teens are one of the fastest growing segments of opioid abusers. This series will...
Read More
Scriptures About Beauty and Appearance
Enjoy reading key Scripture verses that relate to appearance and beauty with your child.
Read More
Sexual Assault and Rape: Help for Teens
Ways to help teens understand or heal from sexual assault and rape.
Read More
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...
Read More
Sexual Attraction: Guiding Your Son to Respond Well
Has your son recently discovered that his reaction to girls is changing? Sexual attraction is normal. Here's how you can...
Read More
What Do I Do When My Daughter Starts Her Period?
My preteen daughter started her period. What should I do now? How do I approach this conversation with her?
Read More
What Do I Do When My Preteen Daughter Hits Puberty?
My daughter hit puberty before other girls. What should I do to help her?
Read More
Navigating Your Preteen’s Body Changes
As adolescents undergo changes to their bodies, they will need to understand what's happening, develop a positive body image and...
Read More
Talking to Your Son About Puberty
Few words carry more awkwardness and confusion than puberty. However, this is the most critical point in your son's life....
Read More
How to Talk to Your Daughter about Puberty
Your tween girl needs you as she starts to go through physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Learn how...
Read More
Educating Churches
Helping churches include special needs ministry
Read More
A Written Blessing
Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to...
Read More
7 Ways Your Kids Can Connect With God
Many Christian parents assume that their way of connecting with God is the way their children should connect with Him....
Read More
How to Say Prayers for Your Children
Living a life of prayer benefits you, but it also trains your children in how to pray. So find little...
Read More
Can Virtue Be Taught?
Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.
Read More
A Traditional Advent Calendar
Get daily insights, Scripture readings and activities to help your family make Christ the center of your Christmas celebration.
Read More
Love One Another
Help kids learning what true, biblical love looks like with these age-appropriate activities.
Read More
Are Your Kids Courageous?
Help your children understand the true meaning of courage.
Read More
Christ is Lord
Do your children understand the meaning of these words? Use these age-appropriate activities to help them better understand what "Christ...
Read More
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,...
Read More
Navigating the Brave New World of E-Learning
Many students now have to go to school at home because of the coronavirus. Enter the brave new world of...
Read More
A New Dream Job: Social Media Influencers
Is there really a path to online fame and easy money for our kids?
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
Beyond Protecting Your Child from Bad Influences
Get tips to help you be a proactive parent during turbulent times.
Read More
Spanning the Music Gap: Music and Your Preteen
If you've ever tried reasoning with your adolescent about a questionable song, you know it can feel like a losing...
Read More
The Rise of Witchcraft & Popular Culture: Is There a Connection?
Is witchcraft bad for children to watch?
Read More
Sexy Too Soon: The Sexualization of Girls
The battle against the sexualization of our children can only be won if we as parents recognize where the battle...
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