Understanding the differences between control, responsibility and liability — and how those nudge parents to try controlling teens.
Parenting Trait
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.
Spending one-on-one time with each of your children
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.
How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.
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Even teens and tweens learn more by example than by teaching. Modeling proper virtues for your children is important.
Now is the time for you to realize the incredible impact you can have on your child, helping him or her come to Christ and grow in that relationship.
The respect you show for each birth parent’s intrinsic value and humanity will boost your child’s own self-respect.
Young people with an itch for fame should be encouraged not only to excel at something, but also to care for something more than themselves.
We can engage our teens by caring about what matters to them.
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Family secrets can destroy the love and trust the family has fought so hard to build.
If there is even one significant adult in a child’s life who will provide consistency and unconditional love and support, that child can attach.
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