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Connecting With Your Emotional Teens

When you have an emotional teen, there are three things that your teen may need from you.

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What Do Teens Really Want?

Learn what teens most value. It may surprise you!

Dating Rejection

How one parent helped her teen through the dating years and a time of rejection.

When Your Teen is Rejected

You can provide guidance and support, motivated by kindness and love, when your teen feels the sting of rejection.

Talk to Your Kids About Sex

It may be uncomfortable, but the stakes are high. And your teen needs to hear the truth. From you.

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Navigating Parent-Teen Negotiations of the Neither World

Here is one practical way parents can help teens who feel caught between the irresponsibility of childhood and the privileges of adulthood.

Watching Out for Your Teen

Find tangible ways to let your teens know how you pray for them.

Terrible Teens?

Are the teen years always terrible? Get some practical advice from an experienced parent who didn’t think so.

How God Uses Young Children

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

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A Princess of Purpose

Encourage young girls to act like a daughter of the King, God’s princess, by training them in the fruit of the Spirit. 

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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Choosing a College Major

How should your teen choose a college major? Use these six suggestions for guiding your child and in facilitating discussion.

When Teens Experience Empathy

Help teens change the way they see their place in the world and help them understand what it means to meet the needs of others so they can grow in empathy.

Grace Is Enough

Do Your Teens Know That Grace Is Enough?

Do good, and you’ll be OK. Do more, and you’ll be saved. That’s what many teens think, but it’s not what God wants them to know.

New Dad Bonding

Don’t panic, if you’re a new dad! You will bond and feel more at ease with their new little one, in time.

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Overscheduled Teens

Help your teens understand the importance of rest and find it amid life’s constant demands and their on-the-go schedules.

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How to Teach Appropriate Touch to Your Kids

Affirm each child as a gift from God and model appropriate touch, even as you let kids know that the areas of their body covered by a bathing suit should be treated with special care.

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Toddler-Sized Choices

Give your 2-year-old appropriate choices to help him navigate his burgeoning sense of power so it’s not used to fight against what you ask him to do.

Welcome to the Middle School Zone

Your child is changing. Is your parenting?

Why Toddler Modesty?

Parents can teach toddlers about modesty, which builds an understanding and lays a foundation for future discussions.