One of our goals as parents must be to manage our own thought bubbles so that we can be a model for our kids.
Intentional Parenting
Motivate children to complete their household chores by using creative ways to make it fun.
In the midst of empty nest parenting, you can still enjoy the changing seasons as your kids work, move away and start their own family.
Celebrating Advent involves intentional preparation for the birth of Jesus Christ. For Christians, the Advent season reminds us not only of Jesus’ birth, but of His eternal presence and eventual second coming.
Single parents often find that knowing where to begin with talking to your kids about sex can feel overwhelming. But these conversations can succeed when rooted in Biblical principles.
Though you cannot entirely stop your child from having nightmares, there are some immediate responses and preventative measures you can take to help your child get a good night’s rest.
Marvel families rarely resemble our every-day humdrum life. At first glance. But under the surface, Marvel movies contain deep and relatable themes involving family.
These five tips can help you create a culture of honesty in your home.
Our culture de-values empathy. Instead, there’s an emphasis on choosing to feed narcissism and apathy. Because of this, it’s more important than ever to teach our kids about empathy.
Unfortunately, kids don’t always tell us what’s bothering them. So it’s often up to parents to figure out how to help kids share and overcome their fears.
Talking to our kids provides the best chance to understand them. Asking a variety of questions from serious to silly helps us build our relationships with our kids.
“Children inspire in me a sense of wonder. God created each of us uniquely, designed to change the world for good.” – Mandi Hart
Asking for constructive feedback from our children is a great way to become a better parent. Talking with our kids will help us to better see our blind spots and address areas of our parenting that we need to work on.
These five ways of shifting the momentum in your home can help your family to stop feeling stuck and bring your kids’ goals back into focus.
Here are ten lessons that my parents have taught me over the years, and that continue to make an impact on my life and worldview.
Here are some helpful guiding questions to consider when you’re thinking whether certain words you use with your kids are life-giving or potentially destructive.
If the momentum in your family has taken a negative turn, these five things can help you get it back on a positive pace.
Encourage your kids to hold fast to the hope of Christ and to lean on Bible verses like these to bolster their faith in every season of life.
What started as a rule to get our kids to put away their shoes grew into a good example of how doing right was a much better choice than doing what was convenient.
If we were to stop and scan the scriptures for advice on parenting, one of the themes that would stick out is that God is concerned about the state of our hearts, rather than simply behavior modification.
