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Social Networking Site Safety

Help your teenager exercise safe online social skills.

School Choice

What are the pros and cons of various learning environments?

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How to Develop Emotional Intimacy With Your Kids

The emotional side of relationships don’t just happen. Here’s how to be intentional about building a closer connection with your family.

Son spitting water in Dad's face

Make Time to be Dad

No one is guaranteed tomorrow; invest in your children’s lives today.

Let Your Kids Fail

Using consequences to foster responsibility, confidence and success

Living in a Stepfamily

Living in a Stepfamily

Teens with a stepmom or stepdad need help learning how to manage the emotions surrounding a new stepfamily and how to adjust to having a stepparent and stepsiblings.

Small group of kids organizing canned food for a food drive

What Service Looks Like

Christ calls us to live our faith by loving and serving the people He brings into our lives. How are you training your children to do this?

Healing 101

Here are tips for you and your child on healing after divorce.

How to Get Things Done With Teens

Here are tips on connecting with teens and getting them to pitch in.

Beyond the Heartache

One mom shares her story of a rebellious daughter who comes home.

Kids and Substance Abuse

Kids and Substance Abuse

Understanding and responding to drug, alcohol and tobacco use among teens.

Girl holding teddy bear and facing the wall as she is disciplined

What Does the Bible Say About Discipline?

Parents can learn how to best discipline their children by taking note of how the Bible says God disciplines us.

Why Service is Necessary

Why Service Is Necessary

We serve others because of the example Christ set for us.

Father tries to console crying teen daughter

Tools for Listening to Your Teen

How to really hear your teen and encourage your teen to open up to you

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Being Available For Your Teen

Set a goal of reserving 10 percent of your energy for your teen.

Where Do I Begin?

Saying you’re sorry to your kids opens up plenty of possibilities – all of them good.

Reducing the Risk for Substance Abuse

Tips for protecting your kids from drug, alcohol and tobacco use.

What Is Service?

I never want my children to count their blessings in lieu of reaching out.

Household Idols

The pace of modern life makes it more challenging to raise a family without giving in to culture’s pet idolatries.

‘Sorry’ Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Asking for forgiveness is an admission that you’ve made a poor decision – and it can be humiliating to admit you’re wrong – but kids say they respect their parents more when they apologize.