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Intentional Parenting

Kindergarten Milestones

This checklist will help determine how well your child has progressed in acquiring kindergarten skills.

Healthy Grief

What can you do to help children when they lose a grandparent, friend, sibling or parent?

Readiness for Kindergarten: Your Child’s Mind

How Can I Help My Child Grow Intellectually? There are so many enjoyable ways you can support your kindergartner as he acquires these new skills! You are, after all, his most important teacher. Here are some suggestions: Challenge him to find different ways that numbers are used at home. These could include telephone books, measuring …

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Kindergarten Readiness: Your Child’s Emotions

Here are some things you can do to prepare your child for kindergarten

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Kindergarten Readiness: Reading

Here are some enjoyable activities you can do with your child to help prepare her for kindergarten.

Take the Internet Safety Pledge!

These common-sense rules can help your child be safer online and ensure that he or she is a good Internet citizen, too.

Tech Support for Parents

Help for parents who wonder how to guide their children’s use of technology in today’s tech-risky culture.

Parents’ Guide to Video Games

Learn what makes video games addictive, signs of addiction and how to prevent them, plus how to choose family-friendly games.

Staying Involved With Your Kid’s Life

Has your middle school child set up boundaries or built protective walls to shut you out? Be the dad who can, well, interrupt once in a while.

Stop Refereeing Your Preschoolers!

Being the police, detective, mediator and judge for every squabble poorly equips our children for independence. Instead, we should invest time teaching our children to keep the peace. 

Establishing a Legacy of Faith for Newborns

Our children have eternal souls in need of salvation, and we have a part in ensuring that they know God.

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.

How to Survive Baby Boot Camp

When you bring your baby home from the hospital, the rigors of basic training begin.

Teaching Teens to Care

Teach your teens selflessness . . . even in a materialistic world.

Helping a Young Child Recover From Divorce

Part of the Divorce Series Divorce When Your Kids Divorce When Your Parents Divorce My Success as a Single Mom Helping a Young Child Recover From Divorce Series About: Relationship Challenges My husband and I separated, then divorced, almost 2 and a half years ago. Our son is now 4 years old, and he’s asking …

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.

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More Ideas for Traditions

See which of these traditions might work for your family!

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?

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 …

How to Influence Your Teen

These two examples show how an influencing parent should respond to a teen.