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Teaching Kids the Weight of Words

Can the power of words be controlled? Can we teach our kids to train their tongues (and their typing!) so that their words are a force for good? Here are a few ways to help them discipline their speech.

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Teaching Your Kids About Money

Teaching kids about money is a matter of sharing your ideas and values with your kids as you go through the routines of daily life together.

Stepparenting: 4 Steps to Teen Discipline

What does a new stepdad do when kids need discipline?

Blessing Your Kids

Blessing Your Kids

It’s easier than you think to bless your kids!

Healthy Grief

What can you do to help children when they lose a grandparent, friend, sibling or parent?

What Do I Say?

How to answer difficult questions your children ask.

Stress at Home

Dr. Archibald Hart answers how stress at home and parents’ attitudes affect their children.

Stop Refereeing Your Preschoolers!

Being the police, detective, mediator and judge for every squabble poorly equips our children for independence. Instead, we should invest time teaching our children to keep the peace. 

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Hard Prayers to Pray for Your Kids

God wants only the best for us, and He allows us to experience Him more fully and be a part of what He is doing when we pray from an eternal perspective.

Conflict Resolution Skills for Kids

Even when you demonstrate appropriate ways to respond to conflict, you can’t assume your children understand why you interact with others the way you do. So guide them toward becoming ministers of reconciliation in their words and actions.

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Nurturing a Servant’s Heart in Kids

Encouraging a Christlike heart in our children starts with being authentic in our faith, modeling Christ’s love and allowing our children to experience Him. Then they can respond to what He is doing in their lives.

Establishing a Legacy of Faith for Newborns

Our children have eternal souls in need of salvation, and we have a part in ensuring that they know God.

Memorize and Meditate

Find creative ways to make Scripture memorization fun. Here are some tips about times and ways to help your family memorize.

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A Practical Approach to Bullies

How can parents help children deal with bullies on the bus, playground or wherever? Here’s some practical advice.

A Written Blessing

Here is why you should write down your blessing for your children, and how to compose a written blessing to affirm them.

Parents: Protect Your Child’s Heart by Guarding Your Own

Every parent needs a deliberate, strategic and measurable plan to guard his or her child’s heart.

Conversation: Give Your Child an Identity

Great relationships aren’t built of laws or rigid rules, but of vulnerable communication, honesty, healthy conflicts, order and direction.

Do You Have a Plan?

How have you prepared your children for the attacks of Satan? Do you have a written plan to protect your children?

Four Key Beliefs From Scripture

Learning these four biblical principles will help you reap the wonderful consequences of a much closer walk with God and harmony with others.

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Strengthen Your Child’s Faith With Scripture

The life that Christ promised is what we all want for our children. I want to help you teach your children to memorize and meditate on Scripture as a part of their everyday lives.