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Siblings’ Needs

Spending one-on-one time with each of your children

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Control Versus Responsibility

Understanding the differences between control, responsibility and liability — and how those nudge parents to try controlling teens.

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Ideas for Creating Traditions

Here are a few ideas real moms and dads have created to set an atmosphere where words of affirmation and moments of celebration can be shared.

Feeling Isolated

When friends and family are distant during the greatest time of need

The Real Job of Moms

A mom’s primary job isn’t cooking dinner, changing diapers or helping a preschooler glue colored macaroni on a coffee can as a Father’s Day gift.

Two Relational Styles: Holding and Tossing

How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.

Ideas for Organization

Tips for family calendars, storage ideas, “office space” for kids and more

Making the Bible Fun

How to reach children ages 0-3 with God’s Word

What Makes It Hard to Do Your Job

Here are some factors that can make it tough to validate, nurture and keep your fingers off the “control” button.

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Raising a Gentleman

Get tips for single dads who are raising sons.

Words Are Powerful

Celebrate personal moments in a powerful way that can breathe life into a young person’s heart and future!

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Why Parents Want to Control Their Teens

Here are 5 things that make it hard for parents to give up trying to control their teens.

Rites of Passage for Your Daughter

With our words we will affect the lives of those around us as we speak blessings, not curses, into their lives.

Learning the Bible

Help kids ages 4-7 learn God’s Word

Defining ‘Successful Parenting’

If every parent’s job is to make sure his or her children turn out “right,” it would mean God messed up.

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Draw Your Children Into the Bible

Our task is not only scriptural instruction but also role modeling.

How Much Validation and Nurturing?

Every person needs both validation and nurture to fully develop into a healthy adult.

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Making Mornings Manageable

If the midweek scavenger hunts have left you searching for a more manageable morning system, here’s a plan of action.

Two More Relational Styles: Grabbing and Folding

How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.

How to Influence Your Teen

These two examples show how an influencing parent should respond to a teen.

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