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Writing A Family Mission Statement

Creating a mission statement can help your family concentrate on its purpose and help you as you minister to others.

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13 Lessons Dads Can Teach Their Daughters

As a father, you can provide advice, encouragement, and love to your daughter. Explore the 13 essential lessons dads can teach their daughters to create a positive and long-lasting momentum in their lives.

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13 Lessons Dads Can Teach Their Daughters

As a father, you can provide advice, encouragement, and love to your daughter. Explore the 13 essential lessons dads can teach their daughters to create a positive and long-lasting momentum in their lives.

Smiling mother and daughter face each other and embrace, symbolizing trust and openness in teaching anatomically correct terms.

Reasons to Use Anatomically Correct Terms With Your Kids

Using nickname to describe areas of the body isn’t necessarily wrong. But there’s a better path to set your kids up for success in their future conversations about sex, sexuality, and their future marriage.

A young girl with a serious expression on her face, arms crossed in defiance, and wearing a bright pink sweater. This image represents a common challenge parents face when dealing with stubborn or defiant behavior and raises questions on how to spank effectively and responsibly.

How To Spank: To Spank Or Not To Spank?

It’s one of the most common parenting questions, especially for young parents. The topic charges emotions and often sparks controversy. The problem is, there’s not an easy answer.

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Why Your Grandkids Need Your Stories

When you tell your grandchildren your stories—both good and bad—their hearts will knit to yours.

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Tips To Know For Successful Step-parenting

Help your kids as they change homes and re-establish routines during the school year.

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What Really Matters About Sexual Purity And Your Teen

Is sexual purity still the proper way to frame conversations about sexuality with our teens? Learn more about this topic from a panel of some experts and authors about sexual purity.

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5 Benefits Of Parental Love

Children spell love T-I-M-E. Are you giving enough? Read more about how love is one of the seven essential traits of parenting.

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3 Ways To Effectively Parent Adult Children

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5

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Cutting Is A Call For Help

When tweens and teens are experiencing psychological distress, they may cut themselves to cope with the emotional pain.

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Is “Gentle Parenting” Really All that Gentle?

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

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Navigating Christian Friendships: A Teen’s Guide

How do teen girls make meaningful friendships? It starts with learning how to work through common friendship problems.

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Boys To Men: What Your Boy Needs To Become A Good Man

What does a boy really need to become a man? The world will grasp for your son’s attention and mind. However, you can develop healthy habits in your boy to help him develop and grow into a man of character and respect.

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The Role Of Grandparents And Grandchildren In The Teenage Years

Grandparenting is one of our greatest joys. The fun doesn’t have to stop when the grandkids reach their teen years, but our approach may have to change a bit.

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Reinforce Your Child’s Sexual Identity

Help children understand that their sexual identity is an indelible part of who God created them to be.

Advice For Parents Of Teens With Porn Addiction

When faced with their teen’s porn addiction, most parents don’t know where to begin to get the help he or she needs.

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Teens Exposed To Pornography

Equip your teen to deal with the temptation and peer pressure related to pornography.

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Responding In Love To An Adult Gay Child

You may feel hurt by your child’s decision to “come out.” But remember, this is not something they have done “to” you.

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Dads Parent Differently Than Moms

Father’s unique contributions to parenting will benefit his children.

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To Step into Your Calling, You Must First See Clearly.

Truth Rising exposes the cultural crisis we face and the bold faith it takes to confront it. Watch the film, then go deeper with a study on Hope, Truth, Identity, and Calling. You were created for this moment.

Choose to see. Choose to believe. Choose to act.