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How To Find Great Books To Read To Your Kids
Learn how to find books to read to your kids and get a list to start today!
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How To Explain Happy Juneteenth To Your Child
In addition to the history, it is important for parents to remind their children that freedom comes from God and...
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Little Big Dreamers — Nurture Their Talents
Do you know how to nurture your kids in their God-given talents so even when they're little, they can be...
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Practical Hope And Help For The Single Parent
If you’re parenting solo, most likely your happily ever after didn’t turn out as you had imagined
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Does Your Family Live Successfully On The R.O.C.K.S.?
How can you make discipline a reality in your family? It doesn't happen overnight. Explore a few guiding principles to...
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Help Your Child Unlock Better Health Through Gratitude
Gratitude rescues us from the trap of negative thinking and helps us enjoy life more. It is an essential trait...
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How To Speak Life-Giving Words To Your Family
Here are some helpful guiding questions to consider when you’re thinking whether certain words you use with your kids are...
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Kids Need Parental Respect, Love, And Gratitude
Respect is an essential component of communication and correction in the home. Read more about how respect is one of...
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What If Your Kid Didn’t Make Friends Today?
Does your tween struggle to become comfortable socially? Read about ways to help your children overcome social awkwardness.
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How To Raise Strong And Confident Daughters
When your daughter recognizes that you believe in her, she begins to believe in herself, and has confidence to pursue...
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9 Ways To Help Children Cope With A Father’s Death
If you know a boy or girl who has dealt with a father’s death, whether recently or some time ago,...
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Grief and Loss: Knowing When Kids Need to Talk
Take the time to help your children process worry, grief and loss
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How to Talk to Kids About Divorce and Marital Affairs
A marital affair can be devastating to a family. There is no one easy answer for talking to your kids,...
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Beauty in the Brokenness: How God Restores Our Hearts
Kintsugi is the art of repairing something that has been broken with gold, with the understanding that the object is...
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Are Trans-Youth at a Higher Risk for Suicide?
I've heard that trans-youth are at a higher risk for suicide. Is this true?
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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...
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How to Handle Stress in Your Children
While the cause of stress in your children depends on a variety of influences, you can provide hope and support...
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6 Ways to Develop Self-Confidence and Positive Self-Image in Children
These six steps can help you to build self-confidence and a positive self-image in your children.
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What You Need To Know About LGBT Curriculum In Your Kid’s Public School
As a parent, you have the right to interact in a meaningful way within your child’s school community to impact...
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How to Talk to 7-10 Year Olds About Their Bodies
It’s impossible to exist in our world without sexual sin consistently shoved in our face. Whether it’s various streaming services...
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How To Explain LGBT Pronoun Usage To Your Kids
Learn how to address and answer your child's questions about LGBT pronoun usage. Then, cultivate healthy conversations about how to...
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Talking To Your Son About Puberty
Few words carry more awkwardness and confusion than puberty. However, this is the most critical point in your son's life....
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What to Do When Young Kids Masturbate
On the scale of uncomfortable things to talk about with your young kids; masturbation hovers around the top. But as...
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How To Protect Your Kids From Sexual Assault At Summer Camp
Unfortunately, summer camp environments do not guarantee your children's complete safety. We want to come alongside your family as you...
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How to Talk to Your Daughter about Puberty
Your tween girl needs you as she starts to go through physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Learn how...
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Sexy Too Soon: The Sexualization of Girls
The battle against the sexualization of our children can only be won if we as parents recognize where the battle...
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Bible Verses About Beauty and Appearance
Enjoy reading key Scripture verses that relate to appearance and beauty with your child.
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Teaching Kids How To Be Humble
The growth of humility in your child's life will lead to positive development in many other areas of their character...
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Teaching Your Kids To Read The Bible
Here’s an easy way to teach your kids to dive into God’s Word: show them how to R.E.A.D. the Bible!
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Questions to Prepare Your Kids for Moral Dilemmas
How will your children respond when confronted by a moral dilemma? Prepare them before they are.
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You Are (Not) Enough: Finding Self-Worth in Christ
It's our nature to look for our identity out there, but our true identity can only come from being in...
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Help Kids Recognize Their Identity in Christ
Teach your kids that Jesus did for us what we could never do for ourselves: He measured up.
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An Essential Guide to Effective Prayer for Family
Prayer is an essential skill, and your kids will learn it from you as you do it together. Nothing will...
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Putting God First
Try these faith activities to help your children grow in their faith.
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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?
Should Christians celebrate Halloween? The answer is complex. As you and your family prepare for Halloween, continue to study, pray,...
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Have Faith in God: 9 Bible Verses to Bless Your Kids
Encourage your kids to hold fast to the hope of Christ and to lean on Bible verses like these to...
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Tech Trends And Teen Slang You Must Know
This month: how to stop your child from using AI to cheat, why dumb phones might be a smart screen-time...
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Navigating Inappropriate Media Exposure With Your Kids
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. Psalm 119:37
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Sexy Too Soon: The Sexualization of Girls
The battle against the sexualization of our children can only be won if we as parents recognize where the battle...
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The Rise of Witchcraft and Popular Culture: Is There a Connection?
Is witchcraft bad for children to watch?
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Good Books for Kids to Read: How to Find Them
You can find good books for your kids by starting with our list of genres and then matching books to...
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What is the Right Age to Give My Child a Smartphone?
The following excerpt is from "Parenting Gen Z: Guiding Your Child Through a Hostile Culture"
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Limit Phone Time to Reclaim Your Teen’s Mental Health
Our kids' mental health has nearly been narrowed down to two words: Likes and Followers. Learn how to approach habits...
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When You And Your Child Argue Over Social Media
"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it...
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Spanning the Music Gap: Music and Your Preteen
If you've ever tried reasoning with your adolescent about a questionable song, you know it can feel like a losing...
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Jim Daly Intro to StagesDr. Huerta “What’s So Amazing” (Stage 9-12)Dr. Paul Reisser “What to Expect” (Stage 9-12)How Do I Handle AI With My Child? – Arlene PellicaneHow Do I Limit Devices For My Child? – Arlene PellicaneMy Kid Wants To Be A Social Media Influencer? – Arlene PellicaneHow Do I Handle Video Games With My Child? – Arlene PellicaneShould I Consider Homeschooling? – Monica SwansonHomeschooling Boys To Become Men – Monica SwansonHow Do I Explain Woke Culture To My Child? – Joe DallasHow To Teach My Child Boundaries In A Woke Culture? – Joe DallasHow Should My Child Respond To Pronouns? – Joe DallasHow Do I Talk To My Child About Transgenderism? – Joe DallasHow Do I Answer Hard Questions About Faith? – Melissa Hannigan
Teaching Daughters to Process Their Emotions – Terra Mattson
Helping My Tween Enter The Chaos Of The Teen Years – Dr. Ken WilgusHow To Teach Your Daughters to Find Healthy Friendships – Terra MattsonHow Parents Can Model Healthy Friendships – Terra MattsonHow To Help Our Daughters to Live Out Their Faith – Terra MattsonResponding to Out Kids’ Mistakes – Terra MattsonTeaching Daughters to Be Gracious in a Confusing Culture – Terra MattsonTeaching Daughters to Accept God’s Grace – Terra MattsonResponding to the Lies Daughters Believe – Terra MattsonReframing Words to Encourage Daughters – Terra MattsonBuilding Trust & Modeling Grace – Terra Mattson
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