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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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50 Guilt-Free Resolutions

Resolutions can enrich and enliven your family life. Try these (guilt not included).

To Date or Not To Date?

Dating becomes more complicated when you are a single parent.

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A Single Dad: Unplugged

Read about one man’s decision to put his kids first.

6 Ways to Effectively Lead Young Children

Setting the tone of leadership while your children are young prepares you to lead well throughout your child’s life in your home.

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A Bruised Faith

Help your child continue leaning on God through prayer, especially in the midst of family division.

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How to Prevent Cyberbullying in Your Child’s Life

Identifying cyberbullying can be difficult in an age defined by social media and internet culture. Learn how to take practical steps to prevent cyberbullying in your children’s lives.

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Preparing for Graduation Day

Help your teen transition into adulthood.

When Your Toddler Misbehaves

What do you do when your toddler acts out? Try these four successful ways to get through these trying times and perhaps avoid a meltdown—both yours and your toddler’s.

Middle Schoolers: Let Them Push…But Don’t Let Go

Give older middle schoolers what they need, not necessarily what they think they want.

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A Mother’s Influence

Be intentional and sensitive in your influence as a mother.

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Busy, Busy, Busy

Choose to reclaim your schedule.

Legalistic Parenting

3 Ways to Avoid Legalism in Parenting

The best way your children can discover the joy and freedom of faith is through connecting with, not lecturing, them. Be that person for your children and let love — not legalism — overflow in your family. You can develop the necessary traits and approach to avoid legalistic parenting within your family.

Raising Resilient Kids

How to teach kids to bounce back after they face adversity or hardship.

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Changes That Occur During Puberty and Adolescence

Can you tell us what changes we should expect as our child goes through puberty and enters adolescence — and how we should deal with them? I realize that this is likely to be a challenging time in our son’s life. I’m also assuming that my spouse and I will have to bear a large …

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Questions About Spanking

What are your thoughts on corporal punishment as a method of child discipline? Do you think spanking is an appropriate and effective way to correct undesirable behavior? As first-time parents, we want to be certain that we’re doing what’s best for our child. Can you offer us some guidelines?

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Bedwetting

How can we stop our child from wetting the bed? What do we need to know about the causes of this behavior? Our son is well past the age of potty-training, yet I still have to change his bedding several times a week. I’ve lost my patience with him more than once, and I can …

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Divorced Parent Concerned That Grown Child Is Skeptical About Marriage

How can I convince my adult son that matrimony is valuable and worthwhile when his own parents couldn’t make it work? My ex-spouse and I split up when my children were still small, and I thought it was all water under the bridge. Now I find that my son blames me and his dad for …

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Thumbsucking

Should I be concerned that my son is still sucking his thumb? It’s an embarrassing habit in a boy his age. I’ve done everything I can think of to get him to stop, but nothing seems to work. Can you help?

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Teens Taking a Year Off Before College

Do you think it’s a good idea for our son to wait a year after graduating from high school before enrolling at the university? He’s very responsible in a number of ways, but we’re concerned about him losing momentum. What should we do?

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13 Reasons Why Not

Help your teen see that hope is always there.