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Teaching Life Skills

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Forgiveness Isn’t Fair, But It Is Essential

Help your kids live out the principles of grace and forgiveness, understanding how conflict looks when the spirit of a relationship is regulated by humility and forgiveness. 

Routines for Your Kids

Creating and maintaining a routine can help you meet the needs of every member of your family.

Growth and Transition

Help your toddler adjust to changing activities and transitions with personal items.

Life Skills Checklist

Use this checklist to help prepare your teens for independence.

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Motivating Teens to Achieve

The root of a person’s motivation lies in his or her passion . . . and the same is true for a teen.

The Value of Christian Friends

Teens tend to attract friends who share similar values, and you can encourage them to do so.

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Are You and Your Teen BFFs?

As their parent, you need to find the balance between being your child’s friend and being her parent.

Pray With Young Children

Read the suggestions of parents like you who have found ways to help encourage their children’s developing prayer life.

How God Uses Young Children

Never underestimate how God can use the hard times with young children to minister to others.

Make Prayer Real

Helping little ones learn to pray may not be as hard as you think.

Are You Ready to Go?

Learn new ways to help your kids take responsibility for getting ready to leave the house on time and with what they need to take with them.

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Teaching Preschoolers to Be Kind

Teaching children to recognize what kindness looks like and what unkind behavior looks like, too. 

An Activity to Understand Elections (2- to 3-years-olds)

Teach your toddler about the election process.

How Does the Majority Rule? (for 4- to 7-year-olds)

Help your children understand the concept of “majority rule”

Citizenship, Democracy and Your Teen

Talk with your teens about voting.

The Democratic Process and Your Tweens

Help your tweens understand the democratic process.

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Calming Childhood Fears

When your child is frightened, he will look to you for emotional cues. Consider how other parents have worked with their children regarding childhood fears.

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Teaching Kids Life Skills

Are your kids ready for the real world? What are the basics that you’d like your children to know before they left home?

Teaching Kids the Weight of Words

Can the power of words be controlled? Can we teach our kids to train their tongues (and their typing!) so that their words are a force for good? Here are a few ways to help them discipline their speech.

Your Social Baby

Social development is important in every stage of childhood, even the first three years of a child’s life. Find age-appropriate ways you can promote healthy social interaction with your child.