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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Parenting

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Do Fathers Really Matter?

A father’s gifts of quality time, life-giving words, and positive actions have a long-lasting impact on his children.

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How To Explain LGBT Pronoun Usage To Your Kids

Learn how to address and answer your child’s questions about LGBT pronoun usage. Then, cultivate healthy conversations about how to equip your children to communicate using love, care, and compassion.

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Questions to Prepare Your Kids for Moral Dilemmas

How will your children respond when confronted by a moral dilemma? Prepare them before they are.

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Raising Christian Teens to Be Effective Disciples

Your teen has the potential to make a profound impact on their peers, leading them to the saving grace of Jesus Christ and nurturing a lifelong love for God.

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Do You Worry About Being Judged A Bad Parent?

Are you a bad parent? Tim Hawkins weighs in and humorously dances around that question until he comes to a realization about parenting.

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Talking To Your Son About Puberty

Few words carry more awkwardness and confusion than puberty. However, this is the most critical point in your son’s life. Take initiative in leading your son through these physical, emotional, and mental changes.

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How To Raise Strong And Confident Daughters

When your daughter recognizes that you believe in her, she begins to believe in herself, and has confidence to pursue her dreams.

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Build A Strong Marriage When You Parent Grandchildren

Many grandparents are assuming parental roles, which can mean huge lifestyle changes. Don’t allow these disruptions to bring discord; instead, address issues before they became major hindrances.

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A Biblical Basis For The 7 Traits Of Effective Parenting

These seven traits offer parents the tools they need to break harmful parenting habits and the opportunity to replace them with healthy practices.

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How To Dismantle Shame From Feeling Judged As A Parent

Good parenting equals good kids? Even though that parenting formula is common, its assumptions didn’t account for our reality.

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Little Big Dreamers — Nurture Their Talents

Do you know how to nurture your kids in their God-given talents so even when they’re little, they can be big dreamers?

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How to Ease Visitation For Your Child After Divorce 

The best way to ease visitation for my children was to welcome them home with a warm embrace and the gift of decompression time. 

How to Talk to 3 to 6 Year Olds About Their Bodies

As our world continues to stray from God’s design for sexuality, it’s appropriate to wonder how we’ll convey that good design to our families.

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How To Form Personal Identity In The Age Of Authenticity

Helping our students to discover their identity in appropriate ways will ease the pressure and anxiety they feel around defining themselves.

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Tech Trends And Teen Slang You Must Know

This month: how to stop your child from using AI to cheat, why dumb phones might be a smart screen-time solution, and a list of tween and teen slang

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25 Ways to Deal with Parental Burnout

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Mari clutched the edges of the kitchen sink and stared at the never-ending pile of dishes. The second she ran a load in the dishwasher, more sprang up around the house. She could follow the trails of Cheerios to them. Her head ached, and she couldn’t remember what day it …

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Practical Hope And Help For The Single Parent

If you’re parenting solo, most likely your happily ever after didn’t turn out as you had imagined

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Simple Steps To Teach Your Kids To Be Thankful

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust

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When Should I Start Teaching my Child Biblical Truth?

Are you curious about the ideal time to introduce your child to the teachings of the Bible? The answer is that it’s never too early to start.

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The Insidious Online World Of Counterfeit Christianity

Are you teaching your kids to recognize false gospels?