Boundaries & Limits

These family-friendly Halloween activities are only the beginning to teaching your kids how to appropriately approach Halloween. This fall season, create new ways to bond with your kids while teaching them the importance of intentionally interacting with the people God puts in our lives.

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

Body image issues and eating disorders are rooted in cultural messages – so how can we help our kids overcome them?

With your guidance and practice, your kids can learn to control their emotions. Here are four steps for helping your children regain the upper hand when intense emotions threaten to spiral out of control.

These four key traits will help you to teach your children how to manage their conflicts.

Here are four things you can do to help your child when they are dealing with anxious feelings.

If the momentum in your family has taken a negative turn, these five things can help you get it back on a positive pace.

What started as a rule to get our kids to put away their shoes grew into a good example of how doing right was a much better choice than doing what was convenient.

If we were to stop and scan the scriptures for advice on parenting, one of the themes that would stick out is that God is concerned about the state of our hearts, rather than simply behavior modification.

There is no getting around it: Bringing up a toddler requires a seemingly limitless supply of time and energy. Here are seven ways to fight burnout when you have a busy toddler in the house.

Authoritative parenting values the relationship with their son or daughter while valuing the development of their child. The New Year is a great time to focus on implementing this parenting style in your life.

Discussing boundaries and limits with your adult children will contribute to the good health of your relationship and minimize conflicts in the home.

Make each day count with your kids. Every action you take can contribute to your child’s mental health.

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.

The 7 Traits of Effective Parenting is a simple framework of seven powerful traits that will help you grow in your parenting journey, and be the most effective parent you can be.

Focus on the Family has created Alive to Thrive to provide help and hope for parents and others who interact regularly with young people. This free resource provides practical suggestions for preventing and responding to suicidal thoughts and actions.

Many students now have to go to school at home because of the coronavirus. Enter the brave new world of e-learning.

These eight tips can help create a successful and less stressful environment for you and your kids while you are working from home.

Ways to help teens understand or heal from sexual assault and rape.

Any number of unforeseen circumstances may create a situation in which parent-child attachment is a challenge. In this article, parents can learn principles and strategies for encouraging attachment in a struggling child.