If your kids ever wonder, “What does God look like?” send them to me. I’ve seen His hands. I’ve seen them all my life – on an Iowa couple named George and Ruth. Before I could even read, I watched those hands empty bedpans, prepare sponge baths and feed Ruth’s elderly mother. During my teen …
Parenting Trait
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.
Family secrets can destroy the love and trust the family has fought so hard to build.
Suggestions for an effective bonding experience
The sensitive parent is attuned to his or her child’s natural rhythms and responds to those appropriately and timely.
Helping your child find new friendships after the big move
The adoption journey is resplendent with unforeseen detours, mountaintop experiences, formidable challenges — and magnificent views of God’s grace all along the way. Without preparation, this journey can be more than challenging. With awareness and planning, the journey can be one that promotes growth, blessings and healing for all involved. Here are a few things …
The beautiful truth for adoptive parents is that God has placed children in their families for healing and redemption.
Take a look at seven common faith-launching worries parents face.
Given up on the idea of home education? It might be time to reconsider.
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.
How do you help your children care for others?
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.
Recognizing your teen’s seasons of life and how to support them
Here are three ways parents encourage their kids to misbehave.
Having trouble getting your toddler down to sleep? Here are some ideas for making the bedtime experience less stressful.
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.
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?
Give your children a sense of the importance of joyful giving by being a good model.
It’s essential for families to develop the ability to cope with the stress that adoption can place on parents and kids.