Finding volunteer opportunities for your kids is a good way to teach them compassion and stewardship as part of their service to God.
Parenting
Your toddler’s new sexual discoveries are fueled by age-appropriate curiosity. For toddlers, this exploration is normal. However, you now have an opportunity to create a healthy foundation for biblical sexuality in your toddler’s future.
The respect you show for each birth parent’s intrinsic value and humanity will boost your child’s own self-respect.
We can engage our teens by caring about what matters to them.
Here are three ways parents encourage their kids to misbehave.
Having trouble getting your toddler down to sleep? Here are some ideas for making the bedtime experience less stressful.
When you’re grieving the loss of someone who isn’t at the table, traditional holiday family events can be especially hard. Perhaps this is the year to do something different.
While your family’s holiday seasons likely will be sprinkled with occasional pain, these times can also be an opportunity to discover God in brand new ways.
Is your little angel having a bad day? It’s important to pick the right solution for restoring heavenly peace.
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.
Understanding the reasons for your child’s behavior and responses is important, but the truth is that some adoptive parents may never know the full extent of their child’s underlying problems for a number of reasons.
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.
Appreciate the precious gift of parenthood granted to you by your child’s birth family by embracing them through the love of Jesus Christ.
How do we prepare our kids to be “shrewd as serpents, and harmless as doves” when they serve? How do we teach them to discern how to give and serve with widsom?
This clever discipline method is less exhausting and more successful than ranting, raving, blaming, pleading, begging or threatening.
Help your tween grow into a thoughtful young adult by prioritizing your relationship rather than simply listing rules.
How do you get your toddler over this frustrating step?
What will we do when we stop living our adult children’s lives for them?
Worried about what your teen is up to on Facebook? These tips will help.
It’s essential for families to develop the ability to cope with the stress that adoption can place on parents and kids.