Making time for your teen’s interests, even when it’s inconvenient, is important in your ongoing relationship.
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When you have an emotional teen, there are three things that your teen may need from you.
Learn what teens most value. It may surprise you!
Making friends. Losing friends. Choosing the wrong friends. Sometimes things go astray with your teen’s friendships.
Helping teen boys determine the difference between a risk worth take and a bad-decision risk.
It may be uncomfortable, but the stakes are high. And your teen needs to hear the truth. From you.
Here is one practical way parents can help teens who feel caught between the irresponsibility of childhood and the privileges of adulthood.
Even when you need to cut fat from your diet, you may want to increase healthy fats in your child’s diet. Learn why.
Learn about eight “smarts” that will help you recognize your children’s interests and abilities and help you strengthen them.
Find tangible ways to let your teens know how you pray for them.
Do you have a teen who wants to make his or her own path? Here’s how one family dealt with an unconventional child.
Are the teen years always terrible? Get some practical advice from an experienced parent who didn’t think so.
Sacrificing convenience — sometimes that’s how God uses parents to help draw others closer to Jesus.
Helping little ones learn to pray may not be as hard as you think.
Never underestimate how God can use the hard times with young children to minister to others.
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.
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.
Teaching children to recognize what kindness looks like and what unkind behavior looks like, too.
How should your teen choose a college major? Use these six suggestions for guiding your child and in facilitating discussion.
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?