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Adaptability

How to Balance Parenting and Working From Home

Balancing parenting and working from home might seem daunting. But each day presents an opportunity to display love to your kids.

Navigating Dark Themes in Literature – How to Guide Your Kids

Even though your kid might be assigned a book with dark themes, there is hope for guiding them along in their journey.

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Help Your Kids Discuss Critical Race Theory through a Christian Worldview

As children interact with Critical Race Theory, parents have the opportunity to help their kids develop their Christian worldview.

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Encouraging Your Kids’ Goals When Your Family is Feeling Stuck

These five ways of shifting the momentum in your home can help your family to stop feeling stuck and bring your kids’ goals back into focus.

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The Benefits of the Hardest Job in the World

Marriage and parenting are the hardest jobs you’ll ever have. Here are ways that hard work within that job can actually make life easier.

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Getting Back to Normal: Changing Your Mindset

These 3 steps can help you change your mindset following the COVID-19 pandemic and start getting back to a more normal mindset.

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4 Ways to Wrap Up This School Year Well

As you and your family prepare for the summer ahead, here are four solid ways to finish strong this school year and build momentum.

The loss of a son on the same day as the arrival of a granddaughter

Scarlett’s Arrival: Dealing With Grief and Loss

But what I’ve learned in the six years since we lost our son is this: It is possible to find your feet again. It is possible to see light again in the laughter of a baby or the glory of a sunrise or the touch of a loved one’s hand.

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5 Reasons Why Grandparents Are Important

Grandparents can play a unique and significant role in the lives of their grandchildren. Here are five gifts that engaged grandparents can give their grandkids:

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6 Ways You Make a Difference as a Parent

We often wonder how our parenting can make an impact on our kids. These six ways will show you how being a parent can make all the difference.

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Grief and Loss: Knowing When Kids Need to Talk

Take the time to help your children process worry, grief and loss

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A Parent’s Guide to Finding Help for Developmental Delays

Parenting a child with developmental delays can be challenging. The good news is that help is available for your child.

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Hang In There, Parents!

2020 was a challenging year for all of you parents out there. But look at all of the obstacles you’ve bravely overcome.

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When the Holidays Hurt: 3 Ways Single Parents Can Cope

When your family is broken, the holidays hurt. Here are three ways single parents can cope during the holiday season.

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A Single Parent’s Path to Community

Community is essential for all parents, but especially single parents as we often manage the work of two people on our own.

Parenting Young Adults: Adaptability

Adaptability as a parent requires a mom or dad to get rid of the “shoulds” that tend to come from comparing their experience as young adults to that of their kids.

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Adaptability — An Essential Parenting Trait

A flexible mindset, adaptability, can make a big difference in how we respond to challenges

Parenting through different ages and stages can have an impact on social and behavioral development.

Parenting That Encourages Normal Social and Behavioral Development Through Different Ages and Stages

As our children grow through different stages of their life, there are many things we can do as parents to encourage positive social and behavioral development.

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Encouraging Social and Behavioral Development in Children with Special Needs

Raising your child with special needs well is a marathon, not a sprint. Teaching social and behavioral skills will take time and energy.

It's important to learn why friendship is important as our kids head back to school.

Back to School: Why Friendship is Important for Children

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis