As you sort through your unmet expectations on Mother’s Day, realize that you may play a part in fueling your disappointments.
Ages 4-8 (Preschool/Primary)
Marshmallow moms are sweet. Who doesn’t love sugar? But being overly soft and sweet in our parenting can be detrimental to our kids.
Being a good neighbor requires modeling consistency in displaying your love, compassion, and respect to the people within your neighborhood. Help your children love their neighbor by showing them how to build relationships with the people who live next door to you.
Is there such a thing as being in control when you’re a mother?
Do your children understand the meaning of these words? Use these age-appropriate activities to help them better understand what “Christ is Lord” means.
There is value in regularly scheduled time with your family.
Help kids learning what true, biblical love looks like with these age-appropriate activities.
Sometimes you have to start by doing what’s right and good by your stepkids (even when you don’t initially like them).
Suddenly, I was the single father of a 4-year-old Disney princess and a little boy who had just learned to walk.
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.
Are your little ones getting into everything? Here are a couple of ideas to help you safely get your toddlers through this active stage of exploration.
Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.
One way to keep kids from feeling entitled is to encourage gratitude as your children’s first response.
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.
Give your 2-year-old appropriate choices to help him navigate his burgeoning sense of power so it’s not used to fight against what you ask him to do.
Affirm each child as a gift from God and model appropriate touch, even as you let kids know that the areas of their body covered by a bathing suit should be treated with special care.
Parents can teach toddlers about modesty, which builds an understanding and lays a foundation for future discussions.
Do your kids compare what they have to what others own? Help them beat this comparison game by learning to be thankful for what they have, even when others have more.
Use these six strategies to establish an understanding of appropriate behavior in young kids.