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Are You and Your Teen BFFs?

As their parent, you need to find the balance between being your child’s friend and being her parent.

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Caught in the Web

Consider parenting your teens in a way that will keep their online lives healthy, too.

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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.

Watching Out for Your Teen

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

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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.

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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.

How God Uses Young Children

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

Make Prayer Real

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

Are You Ready to Go?

Learn new ways to help your kids take responsibility for getting ready to leave the house on time and with what they need to take with them.

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Teaching Preschoolers to Be Kind

Teaching children to recognize what kindness looks like and what unkind behavior looks like, too. 

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Choosing a College Major

How should your teen choose a college major? Use these six suggestions for guiding your child and in facilitating discussion.

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.