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My Toddler Doesn’t Obey

It’s important for your disobedient child to know two important facts: 1) You love him unconditionally; and 2) You are in charge — and he isn’t.

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Hard Prayers to Pray for Your Kids

God wants only the best for us, and He allows us to experience Him more fully and be a part of what He is doing when we pray from an eternal perspective.

The Sacrifices Moms Make

Every day we change the course of the future because we influence our children in their faith and walk.

Finding Purpose in Everyday Life

Family is important, but have you ever wondered how you reflect its importance as you live out your life day to day?

A Written Blessing

Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to affirm them.

Conversation: Give Your Child an Identity

Great relationships aren’t built of laws or rigid rules, but of vulnerable communication, honesty, healthy conflicts, order and direction.

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First-Time Dads: Learning From Your Father’s Mistakes

Despite good intentions, all men make mistakes that affect their kids. It is wise to consider what we’ve learned from our dad, and how it may influence our own fathering.

Practice Makes … Parenting

A little boy with an uncertain future needs a ‘forever family.’

Repetition and Blessing

Parents need to continually repeat the basic truths of God to our children.

Adoption Options

Adoption options include domestic foster care, domestic infant, international, open, closed and embryo.

Rites of Passage for Your Daughter

With our words we will affect the lives of those around us as we speak blessings, not curses, into their lives.

The Real Job of Moms

A mom’s primary job isn’t cooking dinner, changing diapers or helping a preschooler glue colored macaroni on a coffee can as a Father’s Day gift.

Educating Churches

Educating Churches

Helping churches include special needs ministry

Letting Go of Your Teen

Your teen is separating from you; make this transition easier by understanding what’s yours to control and what isn’t.

Other Rites of Passage

What is the next teachable moment or transition in your daughter’s life? How can you add affirmation and encouragement to that moment?

Defining ‘Successful Parenting’

If every parent’s job is to make sure his or her children turn out “right,” it would mean God messed up.

How Dads Can Stay Involved

Preschool Go on a walk with your child, and collect leaves or other objects that reflect the changing seasons. Create habits that help you connect with your wife and kids, such as phone calls from work or special “daddy” time when you walk through the doorway at the end of the day. Post pictures of …

Defining Success as a Parent

Get into the mind-set that everything you do as a parent ultimately is part of validating or nurturing your children.

How Much Validation and Nurturing?

Every person needs both validation and nurture to fully develop into a healthy adult.

Siblings’ Needs

Spending one-on-one time with each of your children