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Launching Your Child’s Faith: Too Hard or Too Scary?

Take a look at seven common faith-launching worries parents face.

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Building Self-Esteem in Your Kids

This clever discipline method is less exhausting and more successful than ranting, raving, blaming, pleading, begging or threatening.

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How To Cope With an Angry Baby or Toddler

Anger can be a normal, and necessary part of your child’s development. He’s trying to express needs, trying to control his environment, and trying to become independent. He’s also trying your nerves!

Raising Caring Kids

How do you help your children care for others?

Television: An Obstacle to Building Character

Is the do-as-I-say-not-as-the-TV-character-does approach to parenting working for you? Here’s why it probably isn’t.

Why Kids Misbehave

Here are three ways parents encourage their kids to misbehave.

Getting Toddlers to Sleep

Having trouble getting your toddler down to sleep? Here are some ideas for making the bedtime experience less stressful.

The Power of Perception

Training up a child in the way he/she should go doesn’t mean ignoring their natural gifts. Take time to understand and perceive your child’s ways, so that you may guide them to be who they are meant to be.

Kids and Moving

Helping your child find new friendships after the big move

Teaching Kids to Serve With Discernment

How do we prepare our kids to be “shrewd as serpents, and harmless as doves” when they serve? How do we teach them to discern how to give and serve with widsom?

Stewardship, Sacrifice and a Ceiling Fan: Teaching Kids the Joy of Giving

Give your children a sense of the importance of joyful giving by being a good model.

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Home Schooling and Single Parents

Given up on the idea of home education? It might be time to reconsider.

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Loving Your Prodigal

Parents of prodigals often feel helpless and tend to think it’s because they did something wrong. But sometimes teens just rebel against anyone who gets in their way. Here’s what you can do when a child goes astray.

Coping With Adoption Stress

It’s essential for families to develop the ability to cope with the stress that adoption can place on parents and kids.

Loving Your Teen Through Life’s Seasons

Recognizing your teen’s seasons of life and how to support them

Expect to Feel Sad, But Be Open to Joy

Sharing your loss and honoring your loved one through holiday communication might be the perfect way to bring some joy back into the season.

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How to Respond to Toddlers and Their Sexual Discovery

Your toddler’s new sexual discoveries are fueled by age-appropriate curiosity. For toddlers, this exploration is normal. However, you now have an opportunity to create a healthy foundation for biblical sexuality in your toddler’s future.

Principles for Telling a Child’s Life Story

How adoptive parents can sensativley share their child’s adoption story with them.

It’s all Fun and Games

Is your child Bob the Builder or Dora the Explorer? Here’s your chance to find out your toddler’s play style.

Innocence Lost

Helping our kids deal with harmful cultural messages