The Predictable Risks and Surprising Benefits of Family Media Use. What is the role of media in your family’s daily life?
Boundaries & Limits
Think about what kind of communication will get your message about drugs and alcohol across effectively and always leave the door open for further conversations.
Understanding the differences between control, responsibility and liability — and how those nudge parents to try controlling teens.
Providing a way for your child to gain an understanding of how his day will go may eliminate some of the undesirable behaviors that tend to rear their ugly heads during transition times.
How can parents stop enabling and set boundaries for adult children?
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.
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.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes “Mom, it took me forever to get to work, and I didn’t get to stop for dinner. You know how awful I feel when I don’t eat, and I don’t have any breaks to go out and get something. Can you pick up a burrito and drop it off?” This …
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 …
How to recognize the causes of teenage anger, and whether it’s just pushback and a desire for respect, or perhaps a more serious discipline issue.
Your toddler’s new sexual discoveries are fueled by age-appropriate curiosity. For toddlers, this exploration is normal. However, you now have an opportunity to create a healthy foundation for biblical sexuality in your toddler’s future.
Worried about what your teen is up to on Facebook? These tips will help.
How do you get your toddler over this frustrating step?
Keys for offering the healing experience of meeting your adopted child’s needs, if they’ve been abused.
How do you set effective boundaries that build character and establish a proper relationship with your teen?
Having trouble getting your toddler down to sleep? Here are some ideas for making the bedtime experience less stressful.
Here are three ways parents encourage their kids to misbehave.
What will we do when we stop living our adult children’s lives for them?
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
How adoptive parents can sensativley share their child’s adoption story with them.