Bewildered by instant messaging, iPods, online social networking, and other technology your teen is using? This article series aims to help you better understand how you as a parent can relate to your kids technologically, while giving good guidance spiritually.
Boundaries & Limits
When you discipline your adopted child, you need to consider her chronological age as well as her emotional age.
Here are three ways parents encourage their kids to misbehave.
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.
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.
Having trouble getting your toddler down to sleep? Here are some ideas for making the bedtime experience less stressful.
What will we do when we stop living our adult children’s lives for them?
Worried about what your teen is up to on Facebook? These tips will help.
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.
How adoptive parents can sensativley share their child’s adoption story with them.
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 …
What can you do then to support your children in learning and help them take ownership?
the power of today’s media and entertainment to negatively sway human behavior should be a cause of concern.
Using consequences to foster responsibility, confidence and success
Like movie ratings, video game ratings are helpful tools for parents who want to make informed decisions about what their children see.
Teach your kids how to protect a good reputation when the eyes of the World Wide Web are watching.
Don’t just “phone it in” when it comes to guiding and protecting your kids by setting limits on cell phone use.
When and where to go for help when your teen rebels