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Letting Go of Your Teen

Your teen is separating from you; make this transition easier by understanding what’s yours to control and what isn’t.

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Organizing Your Home

Having a master list of all household-related contacts is a necessity.

Making the Bible Fun

How to reach children ages 0-3 with God’s Word

Working With the School

Achieving what is best for your child’s education

Feeling Isolated

When friends and family are distant during the greatest time of need

Ideas for Organization

Tips for family calendars, storage ideas, “office space” for kids and more

Other Rites of Passage

What is the next teachable moment or transition in your daughter’s life? How can you add affirmation and encouragement to that moment?

Educating Churches

Educating Churches

Helping churches include special needs ministry

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Key Areas to Organize

There are a few key areas where you’ll get the most bang for your buck (and your time and effort).

How to Influence Your Teen

These two examples show how an influencing parent should respond to a teen.

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Dads and Sports

Sports have so much to teach us about what it means to live well. Yes, good character can be taught in Sunday school, but it is “practiced” on the court, diamond, gridiron and track. Virtues such as tenacity, perseverance, fairness, integrity and responsibility can be developed and strengthened as surely as the muscles and skills …

What Makes It Hard to Do Your Job

Here are some factors that can make it tough to validate, nurture and keep your fingers off the “control” button.

Two Relational Styles: Holding and Tossing

How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.

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Making Mornings Manageable

If the midweek scavenger hunts have left you searching for a more manageable morning system, here’s a plan of action.

Parenting a Child With Special Needs

Amid these stories from other parents, you’ll find tips and tools in the areas of schooling, church, balancing the needs of your disabled child and the needs of your other children, coping when your circumstances have become too hard and encouragement in developing friendships.

Rites of Passage for Your Daughter

With our words we will affect the lives of those around us as we speak blessings, not curses, into their lives.

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Taming the Transition Times

Providing a way for your child to gain an understanding of how his day will go may eliminate some of the undesirable behaviors that tend to rear their ugly heads during transition times.

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Can We Afford a Baby?

Many couples would like to start their family, but worry they can’t pull it off financially.

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Moms Who Work Outside the Home: Organizing Your Day

A little humor, a little innovation, a little creativity and, frankly, learning the skill of “letting it go and blowing it off” is a big part of being a happier, more realistic and peaceful mom who works outside the home.

Communicating End-of-Life Wishes

More folks are realizing it is a natural and necessary way of alleviating pain, misunderstandings and of bringing considerable peace of mind for the whole family.