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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

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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Gratitude

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Entitled to Be Thankful

One way to keep kids from feeling entitled is to encourage gratitude as your children’s first response.

When Teens Experience Empathy

Help teens change the way they see their place in the world and help them understand what it means to meet the needs of others so they can grow in empathy.

Kids Who Worry

When you help your kids ask the right questions, you give them a tool to overcome worry and grow in empathy.

End Childhood Comparisons and Choose Contentment

Do your kids compare what they have to what others own? Help them beat this comparison game by learning to be thankful for what they have, even when others have more.

Show Kids How to Appreciate Their Pastor

Celebrate Clergy Appreciation Month by teaching your kids to show gratitude to your family’s pastor.

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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.

Teaching Teens to Care

Teach your teens selflessness . . . even in a materialistic world.

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Give Thanks

Age-specific ways to help your kids experience the meaning behind the celebration on Thanksgiving Day.

Teaching Service

Jesus set the standard of selflessness for His disciples when He told them to be His “witnesses, in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Such a command implies a life lived for others. While it may be too early to burden young children with such …

Making Wise Decisions During Conflicts

Eight tips for creating a win/win solution

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Helping Your Teen Learn Selfless Living

One of the biggest challenges parents face is training teens to consider the needs of others over their own needs.