Parenting
The Opioid Epidemic—Think Your Family Is Immune?
Nope. No family is immune, and sadly, teens are one of the fastest growing segments of opioid abusers.
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Teaching Kids Money Management
Many parents don't teach their kids about money until they're teenagers. It seems logical. After all, that's when kids get jobs and have money of their own to spend. But we should begin teaching kids much earlier than that.
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Focus on Who Your Kids are, Now What They do
What's your biggest priority when you get home at the end of the day? The chores that need to get done, or the people who do them?
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Dating in a Digital World
Help teens choose what works today without compromising what has worked in the past.
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3 Practical Principles for Disciplining With Grace
Seeking to parent our children the way God parents us can dramatically change the atmosphere of our home.
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How to Be an Active, Gospel-Centered Mom
Helping our children experience the power of the Gospel begins with us living it out in our own lives.
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Trusting God and Not a Parenting Formula
Resist the formula approach to mothering and be flexible as a parent.
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Wrestling with Big Decisions
Teens shouldn’t fret when there’s no “burning-bush” answer to their life questions.
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When Your Teen Doesn't Want to Move
Easing your teen's fears and frustrations as you transition to a new home
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When Mothers and Grandmothers Parent Children Together
Some mothers coparent their kids with their own mothers. Through cooperation, these women can encourage healthy development in their children and grandchildren.
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Center-of-My-Universe Single Parenting
As a single parent, I orbited around my kids' lives, but that wasn't healthy for me ... or for them
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7 Traits of Effective Parenting Assessment
Good parents aren’t perfect. And that’s okay. There’s no formula to follow, but there are ways you can grow every day. Focus on the Family’s 7 Traits of Effective Parenting Assessment gives parents an honest look at their unique strengths, plus some areas that could use a little help.
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What Pornography Does to Our Children
We know viewing pornography is wrong, but do we understand just how damaging — literally — it is to our children?
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Age-Appropriate Chores: How to Help Kids Be Responsible
Do you know which chores your child can do? You may be surprised at how capable your kids are and what they can do to help out in your family.
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Healthy Sexuality: Sending the Right Message to Your Kids
Start a healthy and ongoing conversation about your child's sexuality that will continue into the teen years.
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Strong-Willed Women Mothering Strong-Willed Children
One of our top 25 most-viewed parenting articles: "Strong-Willed Women Mothering Strong-Willed Children." It can be tough to parent a younger version of yourself. But you also have a definite advantage — you know what it’s like to be a strong-willed child.
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Planting Seeds of Biblical Truth Devotions
A much-loved download for busy parents: Get 52 weeks of family devotions free — faith-affirming biblical principles that will help you encourage your children to build lasting, thriving faith in God.
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