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When Your Teen is Rejected

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

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Peer Problems

Making friends. Losing friends. Choosing the wrong friends. Sometimes things go astray with your teen’s friendships.

Risk Takers

Helping teen boys determine the difference between a risk worth take and a bad-decision risk. 

Dating Rejection

How one parent helped her teen through the dating years and a time 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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What Is Pokémon’s Worldview?

What is the worldview found in Pokémon Go? What might young players encounter if they wander into the world of these imaginary “Pocket Monsters”?

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Why Kids Need Healthy Fats

Even when you need to cut fat from your diet, you may want to increase healthy fats in your child’s diet. Learn why.

Watching Out for Your Teen

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

Healthy Cellphone Boundaries

Consider all the facts before you allow your kids to have a cellphone.

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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.

Encouraging Your Child’s Smarts

Learn about eight “smarts” that will help you recognize your children’s interests and abilities and help you strengthen them.

Why Your Child Needs Water

Dehydration can be a serious problem for children, especially when they don’t recognize that they need more liquids. 

Terrible Teens?

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

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Playing Pokémon Go as a Family

Pokémon Go offers one family a way to enjoy adventures together and learn more about each other.

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Sweet and Strong-Willed

Do you have a teen who wants to make his or her own path? Here’s how one family dealt with an unconventional child.

Do the Inconvenient

Sacrificing convenience — sometimes that’s how God uses parents to help draw others closer to Jesus.

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Pokémon Go: What Parents Should Know

So what is Pokémon Go? And how do we, as Christian parents, think wisely and discerningly about it?

How God Uses Young Children

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

Pray With Young Children

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

Make Prayer Real

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