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What Parents Need to Know About Concussions

Physical activity is important to healthy child development but parents need to know how to prevent and respond to head injuries that may result in concussions.

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Teach Kids About Money

Learn what to do to teach your kids about their finances, your giving of allowances and more.

Help your family make entertainment and media choices

Instill Biblical Principles for Entertainment and Media Choices

The Bible is full of passages to help us navigate the culture. How can you help your children think biblically about topics like entertainment?

Marijuana use is on the rise among young people

A Parent’s Guide to Marijuana and Marijuana Use

Marijuana continues to grow as a socially and legally accepted drug. Read our parent’s guide to marijuana to help in facing these situations.

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Boundaries with Teens: The Key to Freedom

Equipping your teen with inner strength and a sense of responsibility can feel overwhelming. Learn more about how to build healthy boundaries for your teen concerning their increasing freedom.

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Why Teens Are Attracted to Wicca

Talk with teens about their attraction to Wicca.

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How to Get the Best Care From Your Child’s Doctor

Should you trust your pediatrician? Learn about five ways to enjoy a positive relationship with your child’s pediatrician so your child gets the best possible care.

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Bullying and Cyberbullying

Bullying and cyberbullying may be prevented with intentional parenting. However if it does occur, there are some ways that parents can respond to help their kids cope.

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Discipline Is Worth the Effort

Your kids will feel most secure if they know you have set appropriate boundaries for them that you aren’t afraid to enforce.

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Should I Let My 15-year-old Go on a Date?

Christian teens want to honor God. Christian parents try to help their teens navigate relationships in a secular world. There is a balance.

Disrespectful teenage girl arguing and pointing her finger at her mom

Transforming Disrespectful Behavior in Teens

Understanding our internal responses when a teen is disrespectful helps us choose God’s peace over inner chaos.

Parents frustrated with adult son

Are You Saying the Wrong Things to Your Adult Kids?

Understanding the motives that complicate our communication with our adult kids is necessary for strengthening our relationship with our adult kids. Keep reading to learn how to you approach this age and stage for your adult kids.

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Your Teens Need You, Not More Screen Time

Would you like more meaningful connection with your teens? Keep reading to learn more about how it’s important to spend face-to-face time with your teens, outside of screen time.

Tech trends sends kids into screen addiction. Boy hiding under the covers late at night staring at his phone screen

Social Media Hazards, Tween Mental Health, Apps, and Dark Patterns

TikTok: The shortform video app built on the backs of dancing, lip-syncing teenagers that has stirred up Congress, the Senate and, unsurprisingly, social media.

A New Dream Job: Social Media Influencers

Is there really a path to online fame and easy money for our kids?

Girl in looking in the mirror and seeing the image of a boy. a child wants to be the opposite sex

Help! My Child Wants to be the Opposite Sex

When you experience the heart-breaking struggle of your child wanting to be the opposite sex, hold fast to truth and grace.

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What Parents Should Know about the Metaverse

The metaverse presents an interesting situation for parents. With its introduction, the line between real and virtual is growing blurrier by the day. That’s why it’s important for parents to have a good understanding of boundaries for your family.

Teenage girl talking to AI on her phone

Does Social Media AI Know Your Teens Better Than You Do?

Parents, I hate to tell you this. But in some ways, social media AI might know your kids better than you do.

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How Do You Respond to Your Teen’s Suspected Porn Use?

Knowing how to respond to your young teen’s porn use can be overwhelming. Learn how to approach them with grace, patience, and understanding.

mother helping her daughter with overcoming anxiety and depression as the girl is covering her face crying

How To Help Your Teen Overcome Anxiety or Depression

Our kids need to know they are loved, worthy, valued and created on purpose for a purpose. Their difficulty in overcoming anxiety or depression does not define them.