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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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Intentional Parenting

Staycation: Family Field Trips

What can you do on a staycation? If there’s one way to cement a meaningful learning experience in the hearts and minds of children, it’s field trips. As in, family field trips. Enrich your family time with low-cost, educational opportunities. 

Why Toddler Modesty?

Parents can teach toddlers about modesty, which builds an understanding and lays a foundation for future discussions.

Mom and dad sitting on the floor with their young daughter and applauding her as she cheers over building tall block towers

Constructive Praise

Help your kids grow in confidence and resilience through healthy patterns of praise. 

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4 Ways to Calm Toddler Tantrums

There are few things more humiliating for parents than public tantrums by their children. Here are four ways to help your young child resolve frustration by teaching him to be independent in a healthy way.

Helping Kids Accept and Enjoy Who They Are

Do your tweens struggle to understand and appreciate their identity? Help them grow in the confidence of who they are by being their sounding board instead of their boss, as they sort through, discover and learn to appreciate their own unique identity.

Introduction: Hope for the Separated

While reconciliation is God’s desire for struggling couples, there are all sorts of situations that can bring a marriage to the crisis point. Dr. Gary Chapman offers hope and help for the separated.

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.

Preparing Your Child for the Online World

Get information about potential dangers that lurk on the Web, and steps parents can take to help protect their family.

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.