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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

Here are a few ideas real moms and dads have created to set an atmosphere where words of affirmation and moments of celebration can be shared.

This clever discipline method is less exhausting and more successful than ranting, raving, blaming, pleading, begging or threatening.