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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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Navigating Christian Friendships: A Teen’s Guide

How do teen girls make meaningful friendships? It starts with learning how to work through common friendship problems.

How To Talk To Your Daughter About Puberty

Your tween girl needs you as she starts to go through physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Learn how to appropriately approach the topic of puberty with your daughter.

Psychological Trauma: What Was Intended For Evil God Can Use For Good

Your child’s life may not be going the way they want it to. They may have even gone through something horrible and tragic. Let them know God is the Author of great comebacks. He has an awesome one specially designed for them!

Smiling mother and daughter hugging, representing love and resilience in the midst of single parent struggles.

Hope and Faith During Single Parent Struggles

Single parenting carries an enormous burden and collection of struggles. But there is also a unique opportunity to shape your children in positive ways. Armed with a strong faith, you can raise resilient, successful kids.

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Do Fathers Really Matter?

A father’s gifts of quality time, life-giving words, and positive actions have a long-lasting impact on his children.

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How To Dismantle Shame From Feeling Judged As A Parent

Good parenting equals good kids? Even though that parenting formula is common, its assumptions didn’t account for our reality.

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Helping Teens Caught in Mass Violence

Consider ways to come alongside kids who have faced a life-threatening situation that stems from the misguided actions of another person.

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How To Help Your Child Heal When A Parent Dies

I’m not a morning person. I routinely connect with the snooze button, shortening our allotted wake-up time. My boys and I often race to the car with disheveled hair and bowls full of food.

Dad, mom, and two young children at the breakfast table

Patience With Kids: Avoiding The Rut Of Reacting

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes It was a typical evening at our house. My wife and I were trying to discuss our plans for the upcoming week. My 5-year-old was singing in the background while my 2-year-old was attempting to let us know that he was done eating his dinner in progressively louder volumes. Both …

Graduating student hugs father as emotional mother watches, capturing the heart of empty nest syndrome.

How to Revitalize Your Relationship with God While Navigating Empty Nest Syndrome

When we place our hope in being a parent, we find it difficult to relate to God once kids have gone away. As parents, we must learn to place our identity in God.

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What Moms Of Young Children Really Value

Confession: Reflecting on Mother’s Day experiences for moms of young children, I recall when my life with four kids under four resembled a chaotic Tide commercial. Mother’s Day was just not my favorite day.

Dad looking shocked as wife shows him a positive pregnancy test

Preparing Reluctantly To Be A Father Once More

How one family went from being terrified of having children to embracing their continually growing family.

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The Secret Sauce You Need to Tame Your Wild Child

Having a wild child can bring the eyes of judgment in every aisle of the grocery store. More discipline is not always the best answer. Explore how love, respect, grace, and forgiveness can equip you as you respond to your wild child.

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Stages of Motherhood

Each mom’s journey through the stages of motherhood will look slightly different. Mothers, overall, tend to handle certain things in each stage of their child’s life in certain ways. Those tendencies can be helpful as we journey through each stage of our child’s life

Help Kids Know Truth On Questions Of Transgenderism

There is a crucial shift in youth culture, and Christian teens need to understand transgenderism as well as how to respond in love and truth.

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How To Make Father’s Day Feel Less Awkward

Father’s Day is awkward for those who either don’t have a father or who are estranged from their father.

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Four Truths To Empower Mom When Homeschooling Is Tough

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

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10 Good Reasons to Homeschool: Are you a good fit?

If faith and character are part of your family values, homeschooling could be the right choice.

Smart stepparenting is important when blending families

The Guide to Smart Stepparenting

Many people assume that stepparenting is the sole responsibility of the stepparent. On the contrary, it is a two-person task.