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Christmas on a Budget: 9 Easy Money-Saving Holiday Tips

This could be your best Christmas ever.

Why does God allow suffering?

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

To answer the question: Why does God allow suffering?, you and your children will need some logic, communication, and patience, as well as an understanding of God’s wisdom and the Bible.

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Tech Trends: Should I Get My Kid a Phone for Christmas?

There’s a lot of peer pressure to have a phone as young eight years old. Before you buy you buy your child a phone this year, here’s some thoughts to consider.

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Who Is Chappell Roan? What Parents Need to Know

You may not realize it, but you’ve probably heard Chappell Roan’s music in the last few weeks.

Sad teen, sitting on the couch, contemplating the deconstruction of her faith

Deconstruction: Guide Your Teens Questioning Their Faith

What is considered toxic today, though, is largely determined by subjective experience, not objective truth.

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Schoolwork and Homework Responsibility

Get hands-on, practical tips from other parents to help you motivate your kids to study and complete their homework.

Parents motivate their child to read by reading with their child in an indoor reading tent. Mom and dad reading together with their little girl by flashlight in their tent

Motivate Your Kids to Read Today

In today’s culture, reading is one way to help your kids attain more academically. Here are some ideas to create a culture of reading in your home.

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5 Lessons Parents Can Learn from the Wild Robot

The Wild Robot from Universal’s DreamWorks Animation is not just the year’s best animated movie: It’s one of 2024’s best movies, period. Based on a novel by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot is a moving tour de force of animated artistry. Some of the images will stick with you long after the credits roll, and …

Building character in your princess. Daddy bowing to his little girl as he begins dancing with his daughter dressed in a pretty pink princess dress.

Building Character in Your Princess

Without parental guidance, our daughters may only notice the external beauty of princesses in books and movies, and not the valuable character qualities that will make them true leaders.

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Help Your Kid Start A Business

Use these ideas to encourage your child’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Flexible thinking is a valuable life skill for children. This little girl is leaning on a wall thinking deeply

Raising Flexible Thinkers

Help your child cultivate flexible thinking as a valuable life skill

Raise children to be involved citizens who participate in their community

Raise Your Child to Be an Engaged Citizen

Five ways to model social involvement for the next generation

Is talking about sex with your child difficult?

Before Talking About Sex: Dealing With Our Past

The first step in raising our children to honor their sexuality is to come to terms with our own.

Should I vote in the election?

Why Should I Vote?

Should I vote? American liberties are based on Christian principles. As Christians, we teach our children to be enthusiastic citizens.

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Encourage Your Child’s Faith

Get a number of ideas about how to help your child’s budding faith grow every day.

Parents model healthy sexual behavior for children

How Parents Can Model Healthy Sexual Behavior for Kids

Because our children develop over time, there’s encouragement that change for the better is always possible. Now is a great time to consider several key issues, and make any revisions that will strengthen your family.

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How To Encourage and Motivate Your Teen

Your job is now to pinpoint your teen’s interests and natural abilities to help your child grow in the direction that God made him or her.

Avoid bitterness with the gift of forgiveness

Avoid Bitterness By Finding Forgiveness

It is dangerous for you when you don’t choose to forgive others.

Opioid epidemic hits every family regardless of status. Two teens on a playground buying and selling drugs

The Opioid Epidemic—Keep Your Child from Becoming a Statistic

In 2022, drug overdose deaths exceeded 100,000 according to the CDC. Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are the primary cause of these fatalities.

How can we help our tweens and teens see others in a selfie world

How to See Others In a Selfie World

Help your kids learn to focus on real-world relationships in a selfie technology-driven culture.