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Ages 9-12 (Preteen/Tween)

being a good neighbor

Is Your Child Being a Good Neighbor?

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 Your Daughter Ready to Date?

Do you want your daughter someday to marry the person for her? Set her on the road now to make healthy choices later.

Talking with Teens about Marijuana

Talking With Tweens About Marijuana

Help get kids thinking critically about why avoiding marijuana and other drugs is a smart, healthy choice. The goal is to avoid scare tactics while still sharing facts.

Control and Motherhood

Is there such a thing as being in control when you’re a mother?

Young smiling red-headed girl with a princess crown and her arms folded/resting on a table

Christ is Lord

Do your children understand the meaning of these words? Use these age-appropriate activities to help them better understand what “Christ is Lord” means.

A Double Dose of Variety

Raising kids in an intercultural home has many benefits.

Blended Family Meetings

There is value in regularly scheduled time with your family.

Happy family of four with parents holding smiling young children as they love one another

Love One Another

Help kids learning what true, biblical love looks like with these age-appropriate activities.

Teen girl looking up hopefully

When Teens Lose Hope

If your teens seem depressed or hopeless and you worry that their actions may lead to self-harm, here are some ideas for bringing hope into their situation.

School-Year Support for Single Parents

My daughter, Sam, and I were on our own for 12 years. During that time, my girl grew from a little girl to a teenager, and with each passing year, one thing remained consistent: back-to-school chaos.

After the Death of a Spouse

Suddenly, I was the single father of a 4-year-old Disney princess and a little boy who had just learned to walk.

Loving Your Stepkids

Sometimes you have to start by doing what’s right and good by your stepkids (even when you don’t initially like them).

Teens and Suicide

With the prevalence of teen suicides, parents can’t help but wonder, even worry, about their teen and depression. 

compassion for kids

Cultivate Compassion in Your Kids

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.

Can Virtue Be Taught?

Parenting is an opoprtunity to help shape, model and influence the character of your children.

Mom talking with teen daughter

Talking Abstinence With Your Teen

Clearly articulating our expectations regarding abstinence helps teens understand its importance.

What is Abstinence

What Is Abstinence? Conversations with Our Kids

Abstinence is a difficult topic to discuss with your kids. However, it’s an important conversation to have as your children continue to develop. Consider your approach to these conversations.

Teens and Sexual Harassment

Find out how to help your teens understand where flirting ends and harassment begins.

“The Least of These” and Your Teens

Lead your teen into meaningful action.

Mother holder her daughter in her arms with a flowered field in the background

Are You and Your Teen BFFs?

As their parent, you need to find the balance between being your child’s friend and being her parent.