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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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A Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology (Download)

Find out how kids are using their online and mobile devices, and how that participation can impact them physically, psychologically, emotionally and socially.

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Spring Break Activities for Families

Are you and your family looking for activities to do with the children when they’re out of school for spring break? Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Less Scream Time

Help young child understand how to work through their emotions instead of screaming or throwing tantrums.

How Does My Child Learn?

A child’s personality and learning preference must be balanced with the reality that some skills take practice and aren’t fun. 

Do Your Kids Feel Valued?

Sometimes children feel like projects their parents are trying to finish or problems they’re trying to solve. If your kids feel this way, here’s how you can turn that around.

Reinventing Family Night

Enjoy these fun ideas for spending time together as a family!

Your Child and the No-Show Parent

Help your kids deal with the disappointment brought on by the other parent.

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Score One for the Family

How special is it for relatives to rally around your kids?

Let Your Kids Be Kids

Protect children of divorce from growing up too soon.

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The Man He’ll Become

A mom learns to accept the differences between herself and her son.

Setting Media Standards

The point is to maintain your family’s values without alienating your kids.

School Lunches for Special Days

Liven up your kids’ lunchboxes with something different.

What Are You Doing This Weekend?

Remember the significance of spending time together.

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Back to the Books

Karen Ehman gives tips about getting ready for the new school year.

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The Moments We Nearly Miss

Seize unexpected opportunities to make memories.

What Motivates Your Child to Learn?

Understand what motivates each of your children and whether those motivators are formed within themselves or developed through external circumstances.

Meaning in the Margins

Make the most of every moment you have with your kids.

Thoughtful Kids in a Rapid Sound-Bites World

Kids are increasingly pressured by our media-saturated world to react quickly to information — but there is nothing wrong with a deliberate thinker.

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Heaven: Answering Kids’ Questions

How to answer kids’ questions about being with Jesus after we die.

Parenting a Shy Sadie Robertson

With her parents’ help, Sadie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame moved past her fear and anxiety to walk in a confidence that comes from God.