Sometimes you have to start by doing what’s right and good by your stepkids (even when you don’t initially like them).
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You can help your kids see the value of the overlooked and unloved. Explore how you can develop and grow your child’s capacity for compassion in their relationships and friendships.
Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.
Do you feel like walls are being put up between you and your teen. Try these foundational ways to better connect and develop effective family communication.
Many Christian parents assume that their way of connecting with God is the way their children should connect with Him. But your child may connect with God very differently than you.
Get helpful tips and great insight to help you and your teen prepare for college.
How can parents help adult children without enabling them?
Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to affirm them.
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More folks are realizing it is a natural and necessary way of alleviating pain, misunderstandings and of bringing considerable peace of mind for the whole family.
Sports have so much to teach us about what it means to live well. Yes, good character can be taught in Sunday school, but it is “practiced” on the court, diamond, gridiron and track. Virtues such as tenacity, perseverance, fairness, integrity and responsibility can be developed and strengthened as surely as the muscles and skills …
What will we do when we stop living our adult children’s lives for them?
Telling the story should not be a one-time event but an ongoing process as the child grows.
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
Why children who have been adopted need to know their story — and how to tell it
How can parents stop enabling and set boundaries for adult children?
Understanding the reasons for your child’s behavior and responses is important, but the truth is that some adoptive parents may never know the full extent of their child’s underlying problems for a number of reasons.
Keys for offering the healing experience of meeting your adopted child’s needs, if they’ve been abused.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes “Mom, it took me forever to get to work, and I didn’t get to stop for dinner. You know how awful I feel when I don’t eat, and I don’t have any breaks to go out and get something. Can you pick up a burrito and drop it off?” This …
Do you experience stress, anxiety, even dread about some family get-togethers? You’re not alone.