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Raising Dream Chasers

You can help your kids develop the fundamental character qualities they need to be successful.

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How to Help Emotionally Turbulent Kids

Parents can empower their kids to win their struggle against their own negative emotions. Navigating emotionally turbulent kids requires your intentionality and focus on how your kids respond to difficult situations.

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How to Pray for Your Daughter

Prayer is the battleground where we align our hearts with God’s on behalf of our daughters.

Pass on Your Faith to the Next Generation

The foundation of a strong spiritual legacy can begin in the heart of the parent.

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How to Encourage Your Kids to Do What’s Right

Here are five ways you can encourage your children to do what’s right and raise them to value and demonstrate integrity.

Fun Ways for You to Instill Virtues in Your Children

Want to instill virtues in your children but struggle over how to do it without resorting to lectures? Courtney DeFeo has come up with enjoyable ways to get through to your kids with life-changing values.

Why Your Kids Need Intentional Parents

Intentional parenting just means having a plan

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Complicated Attachment Dynamics

There are several reasons that attachment between children and their caregivers may be disrupted. Here, the natural and environmental risks to forming secure attachment, and the consequences, are discussed.

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Attachment and Adoption

Adoption may create a situation in which parent-child attachment is a challenge. In this article, parents can learn some principles and strategies for encouraging attachment in an adopted child.

Manhood Is Not the Problem: Teach Your Sons to Be Men

Teaching our boys to be men is not dangerous, and we fathers should not shrink from this essential task.

How to Be Intentional About Raising Christ Followers

Rhett H. Wilson gives parents five ways to guide kids to become devoted Christ-followers.

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Celebrate Religious Freedom and God’s Love

Students are celebrating their religious freedom and reflecting God’s love by bringing their Bibles to school

Help Your Stepchildren Feel Secure in Your Love for Them

Stepsibling jealousy can be subtle, volatile and destructive, but detecting it isn’t difficult if you know what to look for.

A Family’s Unexpected Togetherness in the Wilderness

Time in the wilderness helped draw Jim Daly’s family closer together in unexpected ways.

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Lifewise: Rethinking Retirement

As we reach retirement age, the temptation is to think our time is finally our own. But what if God has something else in mind for us during this new life stage?

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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.

How You Can Help Your Teens Live Out Their Faith

Teens may need our help to live out their beliefs in the real world. Here are some ideas for helping them.

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Getting Kids to Listen

Find little ways to encourage your children to listen and obey.

Lifewise Activities: Volunteer Smart

Ready to volunteer? Before you dive in, you’ll want to keep a few tips in mind to make your experience the best it can be.

Build a Strong Sense of Identity in Your Kids

Do your kids struggle with their identity? Mom of six kids, Michele Cushatt shares about three self-strengthening anchors that can ground kids in the truth of who they are.