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Memorize and Meditate

Find creative ways to make Scripture memorization fun. Here are some tips about times and ways to help your family memorize.

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A Practical Approach to Bullies

How can parents help children deal with bullies on the bus, playground or wherever? Here’s some practical advice.

Conversation: Give Your Child an Identity

Great relationships aren’t built of laws or rigid rules, but of vulnerable communication, honesty, healthy conflicts, order and direction.

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Can a Parent Expect Respect?

Learn more about building a respectful relationship with your teen.

Wait No More: A Foster-Care Adoption Story

One family’s amazing adoption journey – one that would change their lives forever.

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Independence or Rebellion?

Sometimes what looks like rebellion is really a push for independence. Get tips on how to respond to your teen, even as you help shape a stronger path toward their maturity and wisdom.

Parents: Protect Your Child’s Heart by Guarding Your Own

Every parent needs a deliberate, strategic and measurable plan to guard his or her child’s heart.

What’s Going On Here?

Fascinating Case Studies of “Irregular” Parenting.

The Role Of Media In The Family

The Predictable Risks and Surprising Benefits of Family Media Use. What is the role of media in your family’s daily life?

The Devil Is In The Decisions

What Makes a Busy Day Either Easy or Hard.

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Routines of Fatherhood

Observations on Basic Patterns of Family Life.

Religious Activities And The Family

How Families Do Faith.

Notes On A Young Married Couple

Insights From a Case Study of Three Young Married Couples.

Mom Wants Everyone Together

How Physical Proximity is Catnip for Moms.

Methodology

Ethnography Project.

Lone Ranger = Bad Idea

Why Moms Need Dads.

Just Married? Keep Reading

Observing Established Families Provides Practical Insight for Young Couples.

Everyday Parenting Techniques

The Zen Of Parenting.

Everyday Challenges

Uncovering Some of the Subtle (and not-so-subtle) Dilemmas of Motherhood.

Community In Everyday Life

How Peer Pressure Can Enhance Parental Influence.