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What Do Teens Really Want?

Learn what teens most value. It may surprise you!

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Peer Problems

Making friends. Losing friends. Choosing the wrong friends. Sometimes things go astray with your teen’s friendships.

Risk Takers

Helping teen boys determine the difference between a risk worth take and a bad-decision risk. 

Talk to Your Kids About Sex

It may be uncomfortable, but the stakes are high. And your teen needs to hear the truth. From you.

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Navigating Parent-Teen Negotiations of the Neither World

Here is one practical way parents can help teens who feel caught between the irresponsibility of childhood and the privileges of adulthood.

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Why Kids Need Healthy Fats

Even when you need to cut fat from your diet, you may want to increase healthy fats in your child’s diet. Learn why.

Encouraging Your Child’s Smarts

Learn about eight “smarts” that will help you recognize your children’s interests and abilities and help you strengthen them.

Watching Out for Your Teen

Find tangible ways to let your teens know how you pray for them.

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Sweet and Strong-Willed

Do you have a teen who wants to make his or her own path? Here’s how one family dealt with an unconventional child.

Terrible Teens?

Are the teen years always terrible? Get some practical advice from an experienced parent who didn’t think so.

Do the Inconvenient

Sacrificing convenience — sometimes that’s how God uses parents to help draw others closer to Jesus.

Make Prayer Real

Helping little ones learn to pray may not be as hard as you think.

How God Uses Young Children

Never underestimate how God can use the hard times with young children to minister to others.

Helping Kids Adjust to Rules in Two Different Homes

Imagine you’re abruptly uprooted after being totally immersed in another culture. Could it be that this is similar to how our children feel when they live in two homes?

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Reinforcing Math Concepts

Find creative ways to teach math concepts to children throughout the day and in the midst of their routine.

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A Princess of Purpose

Encourage young girls to act like a daughter of the King, God’s princess, by training them in the fruit of the Spirit. 

Early Learning Fun

Parents can begin early learning activities with their toddlers as part of everyday play.

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Four Sports Lessons . . . That You Don’t Want Your Kids to Learn

Sometimes all the lessons kids learn through sports aren’t positive. Here are some tips to help you avoid the negative lessons. 

From Pen Pals to Friends

Two girls formed a bond that spanned the miles — a bond that knew no bounds when one girl fell ill. Their friendship, a connection started through Clubhouse’s pen pal program, became a godsend for their families when crisis hit.

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Why Kids Need Mean Moms

One of our top 25 most-viewed parenting articles: “Why Kids Need Mean Moms.” Give kids the tough love they need so they’ll develop into independent adults.