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To stay healthy year round, choose nutritious foods such as fresh apples

Keeping Your Kids Healthy Year Round

Washing your hands early and often, along with these other practical tips, will help prevent the spread of illness, and will help keep your family healthy.

What Is Faith?

Help kids understand what faith — a God-given gift — really is!

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How to Stop Haggling Over Your Child’s Homework

Create a homework plan based on your child’s learning style.

Help your child keep a strong faith while in college

Help Your Young Adult Keep Their Faith Strong In College

College-bound kids and their faith have never been more threatened. As a parent, you can make sure they are already connected in community.

A mother and her preteen daughter sit on a couch in a bright living room, engaged in a thoughtful conversation. This image represents how to talk to preteens about sex in an open and supportive way, fostering trust and communication.

How to Talk to Preteens About Sex

Talking to your preteen about sex can feel overwhelming, but it’s a conversation that needs to happen sooner than you think.

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How to Know if Your Child is Depressed or Suicidal

Having child who is depressed or suicidal is the frightening reality of too many parents today. However, there is hope in Christ, and preventive steps you can take to help a child you care about.

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5 Strategies to Help Kids Handle Teasing and Build Healthy Identity  

Learning to deal with teasing is a normal part of childhood development.

A teenage girl lying on her bed holding a smartphone, looking stressed and overwhelmed, symbolizing the pressures of Grind Culture.

Is Grind Culture Grinding Your Teen Down?

So, what is this Grind Culture thing? And is your teen a part of it?

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Slow Down to Create Margin for Family Time

The intentional act of slowing down to create a margin for family time provides benefits that will carry forward in every family member’s life.

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Teaching Children Respect for the Elderly

Sadly, reverence for the elderly is sometimes in short supply in today’s youth-oriented culture but they have the most to contribute.

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10 Things You Need To Know About Bullying and Cyberbullying

No matter what form bullying or cyberbullying takes, it happens far too often and can have damaging effects.

The Nesters are a unique family of 9

Steadfast Love in Action: Loving Our Unique Family

Tim and Katie Nester are currently parenting seven children. Their unique family challenges them to show steadfast love in action every day.

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Laura Perry Smalts’ Authentic Shift From Transgenderism To Embracing God’s Design

Becoming the Christian woman God created her to be was a long, hard, and confusing road for Laura.

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Loneliness Ends Where The Blessing Begins

The Blessing is something you can choose to give and live out in your home. It is a “choice” parents make to use five distinct elements to impact a child’s life. Each one is way to help a child understand their incredible worth to you, and to their God.

Dads and moms have different parenting styles

Different Parenting Styles: When Dad Says It’s Okay…

Children need both their parents. When mom and dad connect, they can complement each other’s parenting styles.

Fathers hold a key role in helping children know their identity

Fathers Encourage Identity Development

When fathers choose to serve the Lord, live consistently and seize the opportunity to be present and involved with their children, they encourage identity and teach values.

Coaches and parents team together to help kids develop a Christian worldview through sports

Sports from a Christian Family Perspective

How can parents help their children develop a Christian worldview toward sports?

What do parents tell kids about the news

How To Talk to Your Kids About the News

The news can often terrify children. As a parent, you can help your kids sort through news stories they might see on TV.

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Bedtime and Naps: Getting Them to Sleep

Consider these ideas for getting kids to go to bed and stay in bed.

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The Value of Family Movie Nights

There are ways to motivate kids toward the ideas of belief, values and character qualities without the use of physical restraints or stern parental glares.