What is the next teachable moment or transition in your daughter’s life? How can you add affirmation and encouragement to that moment?
Parenting
How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.
Helping churches include special needs ministry
Understanding the differences between control, responsibility and liability — and how those nudge parents to try controlling teens.
Get into the mind-set that everything you do as a parent ultimately is part of validating or nurturing your children.
Tips for family calendars, storage ideas, “office space” for kids and more
How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.
Every person needs both validation and nurture to fully develop into a healthy adult.
There are a few key areas where you’ll get the most bang for your buck (and your time and effort).
Even teens and tweens learn more by example than by teaching. Modeling proper virtues for your children is important.
In our well-connected world, it is more likely than ever that your child will now, or someday in the future, have contact or relationships with the people who brought him into this world.
How can parents stop enabling and set boundaries for adult children?
This may be the holiday season to do what brings you comfort. Choose to be around people you can count on to understand your sorrow, people who offer the support you need to get through the season.
Young people with an itch for fame should be encouraged not only to excel at something, but also to care for something more than themselves.
Given up on the idea of home education? It might be time to reconsider.
Helping your child find new friendships after the big move
Children who are adopted when they’re older or who have more complicated histories are not likely to respond well to some traditional discipline methods.
Take a look at seven common faith-launching worries parents face.
The respect you show for each birth parent’s intrinsic value and humanity will boost your child’s own self-respect.
Try using this activity to teach your kids that God wants us to be part of His family.