Alex Chediak shares six foundational marks of a teen who will make responsible decisions.
Ages 9-12 (Preteen/Tween)
As parents of teen daughters, we need to learn to affirm her value without diminishing others.
Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to affirm them.
Teaching your teenagers about work ethic can often feel like an uphill battle. Keep reading to read a story about the importance of work ethic. Help your teenager learn how to approach the first part of the job process: the interview. Then, help them understand how to keep the job and cultivate a lasting work …
The Predictable Risks and Surprising Benefits of Family Media Use. What is the role of media in your family’s daily life?
Help your teen embrace a culture of kindness when their world seems to promote selfishness.
Here are 5 things that make it hard for parents to give up trying to control their teens.
These two examples show how an influencing parent should respond to a teen.
Helping churches include special needs ministry
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 …
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.
Recognizing your teen’s seasons of life and how to support them
Children who are adopted when they’re older or who have more complicated histories are not likely to respond well to some traditional discipline methods.
Telling the story should not be a one-time event but an ongoing process as the child grows.
Help your tween grow into a thoughtful young adult by prioritizing your relationship rather than simply listing rules.
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
What really is beauty? Depending on who (or more specifically where) you ask, you’ll get a different answer. Train your kids to look in the right places for beauty.
Why children who have been adopted need to know their story — and how to tell it
Before she was a teenager, Chelsea* had a cell phone. She also had her own bedroom complete with a TV and a computer with Internet access. As she continued growing up into a young teen, she made regular salon visits and had an artificial tan that made her look much older than she was. By …
We can engage our teens by caring about what matters to them.