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Parenting Styles

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The Secret Sauce You Need to Tame Your Wild Child

Having a wild child can bring the eyes of judgment in every aisle of the grocery store. More discipline is not always the best answer. Explore how love, respect, grace, and forgiveness can equip you as you respond to your wild child.

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How Disciplining Children Creates Happy Childhoods

These simple ways of disciplining your children enables other adults to see past your children’s behavior and enrich their lives.

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Strategies for Helicopter Parents

Solid strategies for helicopter parents that can land the whirlybird while encourage their children’s growth and learning.

Dads and moms have different parenting styles

Different Parenting Styles: When Dad Says It’s Okay…

Children need both their parents. When mom and dad connect, they can complement each other’s parenting styles.

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How To Talk to Your Kids About the News

The news can often terrify children. As a parent, you can help your kids sort through news stories they might see on TV.

Why does God allow suffering?

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

To answer the question: Why does God allow suffering?, you and your children will need some logic, communication, and patience, as well as an understanding of God’s wisdom and the Bible.

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Is “Gentle Parenting” Really All that Gentle?

How does this parenting style really play out in practical ways?

When to play video games? Two kids, a brother and sister about eight years old sitting on a couch playing video games. Both kids have a big smile on their face.

When Should Kids Play Video Games?

Answering the question of when should kids play video games can be tricky. Remember to maintain positive communication with your kid as you provide boundaries and expectations.

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4 Parenting Styles and Effective Child Discipline

How do you get your children to obey, and what should you do when they won’t?

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Why Authoritative Parenting Doesn’t Fall Short

Does the authoritative parenting style work? Learn more about how this parenting style equips you to discipline and lead your kids well.

Grandparenting: Leaving a Lasting Legacy

We are instructed to teach our grandchildren what God has done in our lives. He has entrusted us with leaving a spiritual legacy for them. 

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What Conscious Parenting Is Missing

What do you know about conscious parenting? Learn more about how this parenting approach and how you can develop a healthy relationship with your child starting with your parenting style.

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Why Neglectful Parenting Falls Short

Do you feel like your life is mostly chaos? You have an opportunity to overcome neglectful parenting habits to build a strong foundation for your kids and family.

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Why Permissive Parenting Falls Short

Does the permissive parenting style work? Learn more about the practical side of this parenting style and its potential risks and pitfalls.

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Why Authoritarian Parenting Falls Short

Why do you parent? Do you give thought to your decision-making process for the parenting choices you make? Learn more about how the authoritarian parenting style falls short when it comes to effective parenting.

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Let Us Have Peace in Our Time

In our fractured world, we can echo Grant’s plea for harmony in the immortal words that grace his tomb in New York City, “Let us have peace.”

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How Your Personality Affects Your Grandparenting Style

Understanding your own personality, and grand parenting style will help you communicate with your grandchildren in new ways.

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Becoming a Surrogate Parent and Mentor

Becoming an unexpected surrogate parent revealed God’s design for my students. Continue to lean into the roles that God develops for you.

Parents get the best parenting example from Jesus

What Parents Can Learn from Jesus’ Interactions with Children

Throughout scripture, Jesus treats children with radical care and love to indicate how deeply He values them. It’s no wonder that He continually compared our faith to children. Just as children depend on their parents for daily needs, so too do we rely on God the Father for our spiritual and physical needs.

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Helping Teen Girls Love Their Families Well (Part 2 of 2)

Jessie Minassian believes our messy, imperfect families are part of God’s plan to transform us to be more like Jesus Christ. She provides an abundance of great advice to parents and teens about navigating issues like attitude, parent/child conflict, trust and freedom, siblings, and more. (Part 2 of 2)

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