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5 Biblical Ways to Engage with Children Today

What will I tell my children about the world today? What will you tell yours? Raising children well today isn’t easy, but God doesn’t need easy to...

5 Biblical Ways to Engage with Children Today

4 Detrimental Things Parents Say to Their Children - and What to Say Instead

Are our words building up our children? Are they providing the grace that they need and soothing their hearts, rather than accusing them? Careless,...

4 Detrimental Things Parents Say to Their Children - and What to Say Instead

How to Understand and Love a Pot-Smoking Family Member

It is important that parents not be confused and discuss marijuana with confidence and clarity before the first opportunity to use ever happens and...

How to Understand and Love a Pot-Smoking Family Member

7 Ways to Teach Your Kids Perseverance

We live in a quick-fix culture. Embracing tough goals and pursuing solutions to hard-to-fix problems is not something we are accustomed to doing....

7 Ways to Teach Your Kids Perseverance

7 Family Traditions That Help Kids Thrive

As parents, we have the privilege of helping them create memories that can last a lifetime and set a firm foundation for them to fully accept...

7 Family Traditions That Help Kids Thrive

10 Verses to Help Your Children Manage Their Emotions

All parents live on the wildly swinging pendulum of their children’s emotions. One moment they’re thrilled to show you how well they did on their...

10 Verses to Help Your Children Manage Their Emotions

Why to Have Heart Checks with Your Children

We don’t have to create a weekend getaway with individual children to gauge their whereabouts on obedience. We just have to pay attention....

Why to Have Heart Checks with Your Children

6 Things Not to Pass on to the Next Generation

We desire happy and prosperous lives for our children. We think about possessions we want to bequeath to certain individuals, but do we ever...

6 Things Not to Pass on to the Next Generation

How Can We Reach Gen-Z and Encourage Them in Christ?

There may have never been a generation yet with such a capacity to love and create unity, but they are falling away because of misconceptions and...

How Can We Reach Gen-Z and Encourage Them in Christ?

What Role Does the Gospel Have in Raising a Family?

What I find to be amazing is that when one person accepted Christ in the Bible, the whole family often followed after. Our homes are the breeding...

What Role Does the Gospel Have in Raising a Family?

10 Prayers of Protection for Children Returning to School

It is difficult to release our children in a “normal” school year, add a global pandemic, political crisis, racial tensions, and general division,...

10 Prayers of Protection for Children Returning to School

7 Prayers for Returning Teachers

More than ever, teachers need support and encouragement. They give so much every single day in an effort to not only educate but to leave an...

7 Prayers for Returning Teachers

5 Ways to Prepare for Your First Time Homeschooling

The great thing about homeschooling is that flexibility allows for a certain level of stress to dissipate. Instead of the morning rush and chaos...

5 Ways to Prepare for Your First Time Homeschooling

3 Ways to Keep Your Kids Off Their Screens

Including them doesn’t mean you’re lessening your authority, but you are teaching them self-discipline and determination. Teaching them the value...

3 Ways to Keep Your Kids Off Their Screens

4 Ways to Address Disrespect From Your Child

So often, disrespect is leveled because of frustration, embarrassment, or downright rebellion. It's important to know what is driving the...

4 Ways to Address Disrespect From Your Child