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Boundaries & Limits

Raising Healthy, Resilient Kids

Unconditional love coupled with positive discipline is helpful for raising healthy resilient kids.

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Talking to Your Kids About Sexual Abuse

As parents, it is our responsibility to keep our children out of potential risky situations. Beyond that, we have to teach them what to do if someone tries to exploit them sexually.

How to Respond When Your Kids Are Bullied

Parents can help their kids break out of the bullying cycle.

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Parenting a Constant Crier

Guide your child toward healthier responses to everyday challenges

How to Speak to Your Children When They Misbehave

Effective parenting scripts to employ when responding to your child’s misbehavior

When You Can’t Make It Better for Your Stepkids

I wanted to fix my stepson’s problems. But I had to accept that they weren’t my problems to fix. It took some time for me to realize this. Here are some truths I have learned about letting go.

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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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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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Center of My Universe Single Parenthood

As a single parent, I orbited around my kids’ lives, but that wasn’t healthy for me … or for them.

How Much Privacy Should You Give Your Kids?

Do you allow your children to enjoy the same rights to privacy that you have as a parent and as an adult?

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Parenting Emerging Adults: Boundaries and Limits

Navigating a role shift when adult children move back home.

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A Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology (Download)

Find out how kids are using their online and mobile devices, and how that participation can impact them physically, psychologically, emotionally and socially.

Less Scream Time

Help young child understand how to work through their emotions instead of screaming or throwing tantrums.

The Gift of Self-Denial That Leads to Gratitude

You might be surprised at how self-denial actually leads to gratitude.

No More Empty Words: Why Parents Should Talk Less

The secret to helping kids make wise choices may be easier than you think

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Disciplining as a Single Parent

Take a level-headed approach to leading your family.

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Family Media Commitment

Consider taking a pledge as a family to honor God with your entertainment choices.

Setting Media Standards

The point is to maintain your family’s values without alienating your kids.

When Your Toddler Misbehaves

What do you do when your toddler acts out? Try these four successful ways to get through these trying times and perhaps avoid a meltdown—both yours and your toddler’s.

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Busy, Busy, Busy

Choose to reclaim your schedule.